Employee unions of BSNL on Thursday said they will launch a nation-wide protest against the board's decision to accept the Sam Pitroda panel report favouring 30 percent divestment and voluntary retirement to nearly one lakh staff.

Over 75 lakhs trucks will go off the road from April 5 with the apex truckers' body, All India Motor Transport Congress, today calling for an indefinite strike demanding a roll-back of the fuel price hike announced in the Budget, among others.

At least 70 people including 18 policemen were injured today as fierce clashes marked the general strike called by hardline Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar against the alleged illegal occupation of land by troops in Jammu and Kashmir.

Life came to a standstill in Nepal where traffic was disrupted and markets and schools remained shut on sunday as Maoists enforced a general strike to protest against clashes between police and homeless squatters backed by them that left six people dead during a demolition drive in Kailali.

A strike by workers' unions on Tuesday in the Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal belt in Haryana to protest the death of a worker during a group clash on Sunday crippled industrial activity in the region.