Over 1 lakh Tamil Nadu buses on strike over wage hike

Over 1 lakh employees of local and long distance government buses have launched indefinite strikes across Tamil Nadu over a proposed wage hike. Authorities have agreed in principle to hike wages to ₹24,400 when trade unions had been demanded a wage hike to ₹30,000. In many places, buses halted services midway, leaving thousands of passengers stranded, reports said.