BSP to protest against UPA Government’s policies on July 22

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - World Bank consultant Premila Nazareth on Thursday emphasised that India needs to liberalise and change its policies to attract more foreign direct investments. During the release of the annual study of worldwide investment trends by the United Nations Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) in the national capital, Nazareth also blamed the bureaucracy in India as the main reason for less inflow of foreign investments.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Policy analyst Premila Nazareth has emphasised that India needs to liberalise and change its policies to attract more foreign direct investments. During the release of the annual study of worldwide investment trends by the United Nations Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) in the national capital, Nazareth also blamed the bureaucracy in India for being the main reason for less inflow of FDI.

September 15th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Hundreds of farmers living in border areas on Tuesday gheraoed the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar to press for their demands of being provided basic facilities and revocation of false case against the farmers who were recently arrested during a protest. The protestors led by the Kisan Sangharsh Committee (KSC) assembled here to register their outrage and protest against the non-fulfillment of their long pending demands.

August 4th, 2009 IMPHAL/NEW DELHI - Scores of protestors in Manipur and New Delhi took to streets to protest against the killing of a youth in an alleged fake encounter. Holding placards and banners accusing the police for fake killing, scores of protestors marched through Imphal and raised slogans against the government.

July 3rd, 2009 BAGDOGRA - Hundreds of tea garden workers in Bagdogra region of West Bengal took out a protest march after the authorities closed down the Singhia Jhora tea estate without notice. When the workers reported at the tea estate, located in Siliguri district, for work on Thursday they were shocked to find the gates locked.

June 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati clarified that protest demonstrations her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had organised across Uttar Pradesh Friday were not connected with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's birthday. We selected June 19 to launch an awareness campaign about the casteist approach of opposition parties and to attack the central government for its anti-Dalit policies but that had nothing to do with Rahul Gandhis birthday, which I am told also falls today," she told a rally here.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Members and supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPI-M) staged a sit-in demonstration in national capital on Thursday to protest against the violence by the Maoists in the West Medinipur ditrict of West Bengal. "As far as Maoists are concerned these are gangs who believe in violence.

April 6th, 2009 AGARTALA - CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat has said that pro-people economic policies will replace what they feel pro-US policies, if voted to power. "By scrapping the economic policies implemented in our country under the pressure of America, pro-people policies are to be implemented," Karat said at a public rally here on Sunday.

April 5th, 2009 AGARTALA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Sunday said it was now 'thousand percent confirmed' that the Third Front with the Left parties in the lead would form the government at the centre after the Lok Sabha polls. 'While the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has already broken, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not a single ally in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and many other states,' he said, addressing an election rally in the Tripura capital.

March 21st, 2009 SHIMLA - At least three people were injured when the police baton-charged activists of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), affiliated to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), trying to enter the famous Bishop Cotton School (BCS) in this Himachal Pradesh capital Friday. 'The protest suddenly turned violent, which resulted in a clash between the police and the protesters,' superintendent of police R.M.

March 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - Ahead of the general elections, hundreds of activists of farmers union affiliated to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) staged demonstration here. They held a massive rally to voice their anger at what they called the anti-farmer policies of both the Central and the State Governments.

February 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Around 300 retired servicemen gathered for a protest here Saturday demanding 'equal pension for each rank'. The ex-servicemen from the three defence forces held a protest at the Jantar Mantar and collected their gallantry medals, which they plan to hand over to President Pratibha Patil.

February 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here continued their strike for the third day Wednesday demanding withdrawal of the proposed fee hike and implementation of reservation policies in admissions. However, negotiations between student leaders, JNU teachers and the administration were in progress and a resolution is expected by the evening.

February 5th, 2009 CHENNAI - State-owned Life Insurance Corp (LIC) posted new business income last December worth Rs.69.61 billion (Rs.6,961 crore), selling over 4.65 million policies. According to figures released by Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) Friday, it was a huge jump that LIC registered when compared to the collection in November: Rs.33.46 billion (Rs.3,346 crore) from selling 2.58 million policies.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming last month's Mangalore pub incident in which some young women were beaten up in the name of moral policing as 'a black spot on women's rights', four NGOs have come together to organise a mass protest in the capital Tuesday. Expected to be supported by a number of other civil society groups and students, the protest will be held in front of the Karnataka Bhavan in south Delhi.