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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBharat Bandh

Topic: Bharat Bandh

Mumbai, Kolkata among worst hit by trade unions’ Bharat Bandh. What are their demands

New Delhi: At least 10 Central Trade Unions across India organised a 24-hour nationwide general strike on July 9, in protest against the central...

‘My city is fully open’ say users in Patna and Surat on Bharat Bandh, but post image from 2016

New Delhi: National highways, link roads and railway tracks were blocked by protesting farmers during the nationwide Bharat Bandh Monday, resulting in highway blockages...

Bharat Bandh brings regions to standstill as Bengal, Maharashtra & Telangana support farmers

Punjab & Haryana shutdown, while in states such as Assam and J&K UT, students, farmer & trader unions as well as political parties observe some form of protest.

Farmers’ Bharat Bandh vs govt lockdown, & Rahul Gandhi only ‘speaks’ on Twitter

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Nirmala Sitharaman’s reaction to Bharat Bandh & Modi govt’s ‘social distancing’ of farmers

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

BJP is denying ticket to vocal Dalit MPs like Udit Raj because they just won’t fall in line

Most sitting MPs whom BJP denied ticket to contest the 2019 elections were vocal about issues of caste and social justice in India.

The latest to call for a Bharat bandh are BJP supporters & RSS affiliates

Traders, worried Walmart-Flipkart deal will kill business of small retailers, say they are not just donors but also voters, and it's time to remind Modi govt of that.

To counter fuel price rise backlash, BJP has a strategy — Distraction

BJP plans relentless counter-attack by raking up emotive issues around national security and setting discourse around its catchy welfare measures. 

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.