Delhi Commission of Women chairperson Swati Maliwal began an indefinite hunger strike on Tuesday over issues of women’s safety and swift punishment for perpetrators, including those accused of the g...

After the failure of tripartite talks, the students of Assam University (AU) on Monday decided to continue their hunger strike against the rustication order of a student in front of the university gat...

The striking students of Assam University on Friday rejected the offer of talks with the authorities. Assam University Students’ Union president Biswarup Bhattacharjee said they will continue the hu...

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced that he would go on an indefinite hunger strike from March 1 to demand statehood for Delhi. In a debate on statehood in the Assembly, the AAP convenor said...

A global hunger tracking report released on Tuesday has ranked India with the world’s highest rates of child wasting, or children with too low a weight for height, among 117 countries assessed.Nutri...

The women of Selenghat in Assam’s Golaghat district on Tuesday demanded immediate release of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader and son of the soil Akhil Gogoi, who is in the custody of the ...

Three Indian nationals seeking asylum in the US have been forced to receive IV drips at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas as they approach their third week of a hunger strike,...

Two students of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, have been issued a warning for a semester for staging a hunger strike and indulging in “misinterpretation of facts” and defaming the insti...

When Neel Ghose founded Robin Hood Army in 2014, he did not really think scale or numbers. Or so says the 30-year-old, who is an MBA student at Harvard Business School, US. Neel was working in Lisbon,...

Chief minister Hemant Soren has ordered a probe into reports of alleged starvation death of a 40-year-old man in Bokaro, even as the district administration attributed the death to some disease. Bhuk...