World Jul 09 Hundreds of thousands of workers across India go on daylong nationwide strike against Modi proposals Organized by major trade unions and farmer groups, the strike disrupted coal mining, banking and public transport. Workers demand higher wages, halting privatization and scrapping new labor laws.
World Jun 16 After the Air India plane crashed into a medical campus, the surviving doctors rushed to save lives Many believe that the death toll would have been higher if it had not been for the intervention of the trainee doctors and students who emerged from the smouldering hostel and rushed to save their colleagues.
World Aug 16 Thousands in India protest over rape and murder of a female doctor at government hospital The protests began Aug. 9 when police discovered the body of the 31-year-old trainee doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital’s seminar hall in eastern Kolkata city.
World Sep 04 G20 leaders prepare to meet in flooded New Delhi as climate policies remain unresolved Despite extreme weather events battering India and the rest of the world in the last few months, climate ministers of the G20 nations ended their last meeting for the year without resolving major disagreement on climate policies.