Nationwide Strike Breaks Out In India With Limited Success

Indian policemen detain activists of left parties during a nationwide strike in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Angry opposition supporters disrupted trains in India on Thursday but had only limited success in enforcing a national strike to protest a government decision to cut fuel subsidies and open the country’s huge retail market to foreign companies. <AP/NEWSis>

Supporters of opposition parties take part in a protest against the government’s decision to increase prices of petroleum products, reduce subsidy on LPG cylinders and allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail trade in Kolkata, India, on Sept. 20, 2012. <Xinhua=Li Yigang)>

Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, center, and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Prakash Karat walk into the parliament street police station to court arrest during a protest in New Delhi, India,Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. <AP/NEWSis>

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