Protesting against the threat of upcoming job cuts, about 800 BBC journalists will go on a two-day strike in April, Media Guardian reported Monday. The corporation's London-based journalists covering Hindi, Nepali, and Urdu radio news programmes and Web sites have already held a day-long strike over the proposed cuts.

All BBC services will be unavailable on April 3 and April 9. Of the 1,100 union members who participated in the vote, 77 percent voted for the strike. The union has almost 4,000 members.

"Journalists at the South Asian services have been fighting a heroic struggle against the outsourcing of their jobs ... now they have the weight of thousands of NUJ members at the BBC behind them," said Jeremy Dear, general secretary at the NUJ, according to Media Guardian.

Twenty of the BBC's South Asian news staffers, as well as those in Scotland are in the most danger of being made redundant, Media Guardian reported.

Addressing the allegation that staff were being forced to accept redundancy packages, a spokesmen for the BBC said it was "complete nonsense." Volunteers were being sought for job cuts while opportunities for redeployment are also in the cards, he said, according to Media Guardian.