Truckers strike, prices to soar
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NEW DELHi, AUGUST 21: Truckers went on a nation-wide strike from Saturday to protest against the imposition of the 10 per cent service tax in the Budget.
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New Delhi, Aug. 22. (PTI): The indefinite nation-wide truckers&#39; strike to protest imposition of service tax entered the second day as there was no breakthrough in negotiations between truck operators and the Finance Ministry.
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NEW DELHI: India&#39;s largest truckers&#39; union began a nationwide strike yesterday, disrupting shipment of goods, to protest a government plan for a service tax on transport booking agents.
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Rail commuters are going on "fares strike" to protest about prices, overcrowding and unreliability.
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NEW DELHI: Over three million trucks went off the Indian roads on Saturday as truckers launched their indefinite nationwide strike to protest against the imposition of a service tax on transport booking agents.
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NEW DELHI: Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said truck operators and owners, who are on strike protesting the imposition of service tax, have been âwrongly advisedâ and âmisguidedâ by goods transport agents even as the government
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Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began a nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as President Olusegun Obasanjo's sought to draw union leaders into talks and world oil prices soared.
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Unions began a four-day strike against  rising fuel prices in Nigeria on Monday, helping drive world  oil prices to record highs even though shipments from Africa's  top producer were unaffected.
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New Delhi, Aug. 23. (PTI): Talks between truck operators and the Government failed tonight and truckers decided to continue the strike to press their demand for an assurance from Finance Minister P Chidambaram
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Recession? What recession? When thousands of wheeler-dealers gather downtown this week to buy, sell and trade oil and gas projects, they'll be ready to shell out millions of dollars, perhaps tens of millions.
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NEW YORK, November 1  - World crude oil prices rose in Asia trading this morning, with the Nigerian oil unions beginning their protests in a build-up to a nationwide general strike planned for later this month.
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Oil futures prices advanced to a new high Monday as a strike began in Africa&#39;s largest exporter of crude, exacerbating global supply concerns at a time of strong demand and reduced
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Oil futures prices advanced to another record high yesterday as a strike began in Africa's largest exporter of crude, exacerbating global supply concerns at a time of strong demand and reduced output in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf of Mexico.
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A convoy of 30 trucks is due to take to the roads across central Scotland as part of a protest about fuel prices.
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About 2,000 unionized Pennsylvania Turnpike employees, including 1,200 toll collectors, went on strike Wednesday for the first time in the route&#39;s 64-year history.
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Business & money: Motorists set to face higher prices at petrol pumps after cost of oil surges above $79 a barrel.
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For some workers, businesses and organizations, the spike in energy prices -- for gas, diesel fuel or heating oil -- is changing the way they live, work and think about the future.