<html> India's unions have warned they will step up their protests against plans to make it easier to lay off workers, one day after as many as ten million employees went on a strike that brought much of the urban part of the country to a standstill. Bank workers and employees from more than 220 state-run companies walked off their jobs on Tuesday for a one-day strike, virtually paralyzing the South Asian nation's financial markets, factories and ports. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/04/16/india.strike/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/04/16/india.strike/index.html</a></html>