Guwahati Mar 28 PTI Public transport was off the road while services in the banking and other financial institutions were affected in Assam on Monday the first day of the nationwide strike called by central trade unions against various wrong policies of the governmentProtesters belonging to several trade unions were picked up when they tried to start a march in support of the two-day strike from the Guwahati Club point They were later released police said City and long-distance buses cab services auto-rickshaws and other commercial vehicles decided not to ply on the first day of the general strike leaving the commuters in the lurch Banks insurance companies and all other public sector institutional financial establishments remained closed as the employees did not report for their duties Tanker services of various oil companies were also hit as different unions took part in the strike A joint forum of central trade unions has given a call for a nationwide strike on March 28 and 29 to protest against the government policies affecting workers farmers and people Their demands include the scrapping of the labour codes no privatisation in any form scrapping of the National Monetisation Pipeline NMP increased allocation of wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and regularisation of contract workers The central trade unions that are part of this joint forum are INTUC AITUC HMS CITU AIUTUC TUCC SEWA AICCTU LPF and UTUC The strike notices have been given by the unions in various sectors including coal steel oil telecom postal income tax copper banks and insurance PTI TR NN NN

Pune Oct 22 PTI Three people were killed and 11 injured after a tanker scraped past a seven-seater vehicle which went off the road and then rammed into an empty container near Navle bridge on Katraj-Mumbai road on Friday evening a police official said The tanker containing thinner used in the paint industry was headed towards Mumbai when the accident happened said Senior Inspector Devidas Gheware of Singhad Road police station The tanker while trying to overtake first brushed past a seven-seater vehicle forcing it off the road The tanker then hit an empty container Three people have died and 11 injured Two of the deceased are from the seven-seater vehicle while the third we suspect is a pedestrian he said PTI SPK BNM BNM BNM