Strike over inflation shuts down east Indian state

Reuters
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 0:00 am

KOLKATA, India –– A strike over rising prices shut schools, offices and businesses in ea

stern India on Monday as nationwide protests against inflation continued, police said. Protesters stopped trains by throwing banana leaves on overhead wires and blocked roads in West Bengal’s state capital, Kolkata, as a dawn-to-dusk strike called by the state’s main opposition party took hold, witnesses and police said. In Kolkata, eastern India’s biggest city, strike supporters threw stones at a state-run bus and smashed its windscreen with rods, as authorities and private owners took off buses from the roads fearing attacks.

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Strike over inflation shuts down east Indian state

ReutersTuesday, April 22, 2008 0:00 am

Reuters
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 0:00 am