Summary:
Restaurants, fruit stalls, stationery shops, jewel shops, textile shops etc. The shops, which remained open, reported only average business, and malls were not lively like normal days. But the police department deployed two vans at the airport to transport passengers to nearby railway stations,” said CIAL spokesperson. KOCHI: Though the nation-wide strike observed by a joint platform of trade unions did not bring the city to a standstill like usual hartals, it affected public life despite the fact that numerous shops and shopping malls were open at several places on Tuesday. “Many shops are closed, buses are not seen on the roads, trains are late and there were minimum staffs in banks and government offices..