MNS women activists protest against rising prices in Mumbai

September 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Poonam Mahajan, daughter of slain Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, on Wednesday filed her nomination for the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Poonam would be contesting as BJP candidate from Ghatkopar constituency in suburban Mumbai.

September 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - Activists of Republican Party of India (RPI), a regional party in Maharashtra, on Friday ransacked the Congress office in Mumbai. The activists were protesting against eviction of their senior leader and former Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, Ramdas Athawale from his official bungalow in New Delhi.

September 9th, 2009 PATNA - Women activists under the banner of Durga Dusta organised a protest march in Patna on Wednesday, demanding a ban on the sale of liquor in the state. he activists raised slogans and held a protest march with the aim women aware of the social evils of alcoholism.

September 4th, 2009 PATNA - Members of the Rashtriya Mahila Brigade (RSB) on Friday took out a sword march on Patna streets to protest against the increasing crimes against women and to press for their demand for a complete ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks in the state capital. Carrying swords in their hands and raising slogans, the women activists held the protest march with the aim to to put an end to the increasing crime against women that often go unreported.

August 23rd, 2009 PATNA - Women activists of Janata Dal (United) women's cell staged a protest here against soaring prices of essentials commodities on Saturday. The protestors wearing vegetable garlands and holding brooms raised slogans against the UPA Government for not checking the price rise.

August 3rd, 2009 AURANGABAD - A large number of activists of Shiv Sena staged a protest against rising prices of essential commodities in Aurangabad. The protestors raised slogans against the Congress-led government for not checking the prices of essential commodities.

August 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - To protest against the soaring prices of commodities in the country activists of Shiv Sena along with a large number of local residents took to streets of Mumbai on Sunday. Protestors raised slogans against the ruling Congress party for not checking the prices of essential commodities, leading to a high cost of living.

July 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Members of opposition parties, including CPI-M and RJD, staged a sit-in outside the Parliament House to protest against soaring prices of essential commodities. "Under the leadership of Lalu Prasad Yadav, Left Front parties along with Biju Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Telugu Desam, Samajwadi Party and other allies, we all have gathered to express our opposition to the soaring price rise of essential commodities and have demanded to know what the government is doing to control this," said CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury.

July 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Shiv Sena activists staged a protest here against the rise of vegetable on Friday. They alleged that the rise in fuel prices had had a cascading effect on the prices of vegetables and other essential commodities.

June 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - At least 35 people, including eight women were injured on Wednesday during a protest staged by the Shiv Sena party here against power tariff hike in Mumbai. "Reliance is trying to have a monopoly here.

June 17th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A group of women activists under the banner of a separatist group took out a protest march in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, over the alleged rape and murder of two young women at Shopian and also in opposition to the presence of armed forces in the Kashmir valley. Led by Farida Behanjee, Chairperson of Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement (JKMM), the group marched down the streets of Srinagar shouting slogans and demanding immediate arrest of the guilty.

June 9th, 2009 Mumbai, June 9 (ANI): Rampaging activists of the Shiv Sena on Monday damaged the office of Reliance Infrastructure Limited and set a truck on fire in Mumbai against an alleged hiking of power tariff by the company. At least 500 protesters pelted stones on the power company's office and broke the windowpanes and also clashed with the police.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Women journalists cornered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the rising prices of food stuff during an interaction in the capital Friday. During the meet with members of the Indian Women's Press Corps at the Hotel Taj Palace here, one journalist pointed out that the prices of pulses, rice and flour was lower during the National Democratic Alliance government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

February 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Demanding immediate re-arrest of the 28 accused in the Mangalore pub incident, who are out on bail, and a stop to all moral policing that mainly targets women, activists and students protested in front of the Karnataka Bhavan in the capital Tuesday. Holding banners that screamed slogans like 'Stop Talibanisation of India' and 'India has no room for fascist forces', members of various NGOs like Nirantar, Jagori, Sama, Saheli, Amnesty International, Stree Adhikar and the Northeast Support Centre and students unanimously denounced the Jan 24 incident in the Mangalore pub, in which 40 members of the Sri Rama Sene bashed up several young women in the name of upholding Indian culture.

January 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Activists of Raj Thackeray's Maharashta Navnirman Sena (MNS) exchanged blows with the security staff of the Mumbai University when the latter refused them entry into the campus to meet the authorities. 'Our workers had taken an appointment and gone in a delegation to meet the varsity officials, including the registrar, to discuss certain academic issues when the university's security officials at the Fort Campus in south Mumbai refused them entry,' said MNS spokesman Shirish Parker.