Thousands of e-rickshaws — or Totos  — that ply in and around Malda went off roads on Monday as drivers observed a one-day strike against alleged high-handedness by police and the mot...

Tea trade unions in north Bengal are planning to launch a series of movements and are even contemplating strikes in the coming months, to press their demand to fix  minimum wage for over three la...

The organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has submitted a report to chief minister Mamata Banerjee and other government officials this week calling for a ban on horse-drawn c...

Fire department officials said fire tenders from the Gariahat unit reached the spot late because of a road blockade in Jadavpur, forcing officials to mobilise tenders from Patuli. By the time fi...

“I went to the boy and asked him why he was crying. He said his pre-board English exams had started five minutes ago and he was not able to get any conveyance because of the blockade,” sai...

The call for a nationwide strike by central trade unions to protest against the Centre's wrong policies affecting farmers, workers and common people did not affect the transport services...

The Mamata Banerjee government has cancelled all kinds of leaves for its employees on Monday and Tuesday after a 48-hour nationwide strike was called by the joint forum of central trade unions to prot...

Some of the essential services related to banking, transportation, railways and electricity are likely to be impacted during a two-day nationwide strike called by a joint forum of central trade unions...

The Citu unit in West Burdwan’s Durgapur began a weeklong camp from Sunday to help out workers in the unorganised sector for online registration to the Centre’s e-Shram portal. The portal...

Trade unions, political parties in the ruling UPA coalition government, civil society organisations and human rights outfits would take part in protests in major cities of Jharkhand on November 8 to m...