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Conservancy workers in Madurai began an indefinite strike on Monday demanding an end to outsourced garbage work, leaving waste uncleared across the city's 100 wards as the union rejected another round of assurances.
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Chennai mid-level nurses suspended their hunger strike after talks with the Health Secretary, but warned of a statewide agitation from November 3 if pay, permanency and pending dues are not settled.
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Releasing nurses at night ends a police day, not a dispute. Until the TVK government answers regularisation and equal pay in writing, every protest it disperses will return larger.
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Fishers from 10 villages along Marina Loop Road hoisted black flags on October 4 against the TVK government Secretariat-Assembly plan at Pattinapakkam, demanding withdrawal of GO 564 and return of land acquired in 1957 for fisher housing.
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Police used tear gas as students, teachers and parents staged France's largest school protest day yet, demanding teachers, smaller classes and repairs amid a budget squeeze.
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Around 300 INDIA bloc MPs marched from Parliament to the Election Commission on Tuesday demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over the SIR voter-roll revision; leaders were briefly detained.
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Farmers led by P. Ayyakannu buried themselves in sand on the Cauvery bank at Tiruchirappalli, demanding Karnataka release Tamil Nadu's share and accusing the TVK government of neglecting the Kuruvai crop.
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Karnataka ASHA workers protested in Karwar, Shivamogga and Hassan demanding Rs 15,000 monthly remuneration and relief from entering SAMASTA health data on their personal phones.
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Ninety-one days after the Vetri 150 promise of 150 days of rural work, Tamil Nadu workers average ten days, with worksites cut from 50 hands to 20 and wages unpaid for weeks.
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When MPs marching to the Election Commission are detained 100 metres from its door, the institution has not defended itself; it has confessed its fear. A voter roll that citizens cannot question is not a register. It is a verdict delivered in advance.
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Around 260 opposition MPs and leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained in New Delhi on Tuesday after police stopped the INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over alleged voter-roll deletions.
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On Monday, Amma Unavagam workers protested in Virudhunagar: twelve to thirteen years on the job, still paid Rs 250-340 a day against the Collector's Rs 578 order from April, and the TVK's election promise of regularisation still unkept — while the CM renovates 620 canteens.
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Hundreds of Pattinapakkam fishermen marched with black flags on Oct 4 against the TVK government's Secretariat-Assembly complex plan on Foreshore Estate land acquired in 1957 for their rehabilitation, they say. The state calls it a DPR-stage proposal; the fishers call it a land grab.
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France began a second week of school closures on October 5 as student protests over crumbling buildings, teacher shortages and overcrowded classrooms spread nationwide. Up to 500 of 3,700 high schools are shut; 24 schools burned or ransacked, 78 staff injured, around 5,000 arrested.
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Dozens of opposition lawmakers marched from Parliament to the Election Commission headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over a voter-list revision they say strips eligible voters of their rights. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
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From the 'save democracy' march on the Election Commission to Ladakh's anniversary of unanswered grief, India is witnessing a season of mutinies against unaccountable power. The street has become the one parliament the powerful cannot adjourn.
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On the fifth anniversary of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri killings, farmer unions held candle marches demanding justice. On September 22 the Supreme Court asked Uttar Pradesh to respond to a plea for a more experienced public prosecutor and sought a sealed-cover report on the trial's handling.
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Thousands of intermediate health workers ended their hunger strike near Chennai's Rajarathinam Stadium after five leaders, invited into the Tamil Nadu Secretariat for talks, were detained. The site suffered a power cut before overnight detentions.
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AAP has suspended Maur MLA Sukhveer Singh Maiserkhana, the only Punjab legislator with children in government schools, after his emotional Facebook Live exposed acute teacher shortages in his constituency's schools.
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A mass housing protest in Barcelona ended in clashes on October 6, with fires, barricades and tear gas, as tens of thousands marched across Spain against soaring rents and evictions. The unrest followed parliament's failure on rent protection and the eviction of an 87-year-old wheelchair user.
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Nurses on a hunger strike near Chennai's Rajarathinam Stadium for job security, equal pay and permanent employment were arrested overnight on Oct 5 after power was cut at the protest site. Stalin accused the TVK government of backstabbing them; EPS condemned the 'police brutality'.
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Contract sanitation workers of Tiruchengode municipality in Namakkal district boycotted work and staged a protest in front of the Anna statue, demanding job regularization and a wage hike — the latest flare-up in Tamil Nadu's long war over the exploitation of sanitation labour, fought mostly by women.
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CITU-affiliated Amma Unavagam workers staged a demonstration in Virudhunagar on Monday, demanding regularisation after 12-13 years on daily wages of Rs 250-340, with the collector-fixed Rs 578 wage unpaid six months after it was ordered.
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The INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission is not theatre but a symptom: when a constitutional umpire cannot answer who changed Form 6, citizens stop trusting the scoreboard. Institutions rot when accountability dies, and the street becomes the last court.
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All INDIA bloc MPs marched to the Election Commission's Delhi headquarters on October 6, demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's removal over alleged voter-list manipulation. The Congress said it would reach out to the DMK and AAP to join; district-level marches continue till October 8.
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Activists smashed the glass doors of Cornell's Day Hall at 3 a.m. on Oct 5 and spray-painted 'Smash the patriarchy' in red — fury over a lawsuit alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members gang-raped a student in 2024. Students rallied that evening demanding the fraternity system be abolished.
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Former civil servants and activists tried to serve a 'public impeachment notice' on CEC Gyanesh Kumar over the SIR exercise, but police barricades sealed every road to the Election Commission. They held an emergency press conference instead.
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to suspend CEC Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of unilateral decisions during the voter-roll revision, saying it cannot pass orders on newspaper reports alone. But it issued notices and warned that decisions taken without the required unanimity could be recalled.
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Karnataka's ASHA workers are protesting for a long-promised honorarium hike and against unpaid digital work via the SAMASTA health app. Slow servers, no phones and withheld pay have turned digitisation into a burden, workers say — the latest flare-up after the January 2025 strike.
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A 15-year-old in Lens lost his hand after picking up a police stun grenade during France's nationwide school protests. With some 500 schools shut, over 5,000 arrests and ministers blaming 'infiltrators', the state's answer to children demanding classrooms has become the tear gas and the grenade.
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What began as sit-ins in Tripoli is now an open-ended nationwide strike: Libyan teachers demand salary reform, arrears, a teaching allowance and health insurance, rejecting promises until binding decisions appear. Mass protests are planned outside the government's Tripoli headquarters.
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A 20-year-old US Marine based at Futenma air station was arrested on suspicion of murdering Anna Yagi, 39, in a Naha hotel. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has formally protested to Washington as Okinawa's governor called US discipline efforts 'completely ineffective'.
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Lessons will be totally or partly suspended at 400 to 500 French high schools on Monday after violent clashes between students and riot police. The revolt over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and run-down buildings has seen 24 schools burned or ransacked and 78 staff wounded.
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A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant hears two petitions today alleging that CEC Gyanesh Kumar took at least 14 key decisions during the voter-roll revision without the concurrence of the two other Election Commissioners, with one plea seeking his suspension.
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Thousands of young protesters marched in Delhi and Mumbai on Sunday demanding the Election Commission chief's resignation over the voter-roll revision; police detained demonstrators for a third straight day. The Gen-Z-led Cockroach Janata Party announced a major Delhi rally for October 10.
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The INDIA bloc announced district demos across Tamil Nadu on Oct 13-14, a major protest on Oct 15 and an MPs' march to the ECI's Delhi HQ on Oct 6, demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over the Special Intensive Revision of rolls. TVK's bloc entry was called 'historic'.
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Three women journalists allege sexual harassment by police officers — including an ACP — during Saturday's Jantar Mantar protest demanding the CEC's resignation. The complaints were transferred to the Crime Branch as protests escalated in Delhi and Mumbai.
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