-The Indian Express Hours after oil marketing companies announced a Rs 26.50 increase in the price of non-subsidised LPG cylinders Thursday, Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily apparently developed cold feet and put the decision on hold pending a review. A 14.2 kg cylinder would have cost Rs 922 in the capital after the increase but late in the evening, Moily asked officials of Indian Oil Corp, the largest oil marketing firm, to keep...
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SC Notice to MAMata Over Appointment of Health Advisor
-Outlook Taking exception to Calcutta High Court's order refusing to give notice to MAMata Banerjee on appointment of Dr Sukumar Mukherjee as chief health advisor to the state government, the Supreme Court today issued notice to the West Bengal Chief Minister. A bench of justices R M Lodha and A R Dave issued notice to Banerjee seeking her reply on why she should not be made party in the case challenging the...
More »MAMata Banerjee's doublespeak on land acquisition -Saugata Roy
-The Times of India KOLKATA: Chief Minister MAMata Banerjee may root for a hands-off policy on land acquisition, but her Cabinet approved acquisition of 64 acre land for a power project at Dalkhola in West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur in May. Her political rivals are backing farmers protesting against the state government's land acquisition bid. Forward Bloc MLA from Chakulia Ali Imran Ramz has planned a Nandigram-like stir against the state government. "The...
More »Rapes happening because men and women are interacting more freely, says MAMata Banerjee
-CNN-IBN Kolkata: After Haryana ministers and Khap panchayats, West Bengal Chief Minister MAMata Banerjee on Monday gave her 'bizarre' reasoning for the increasing rape cases in the country. MAMata said that rape cases are on a rise in the country because men and women interact with each other more freely now. "Earlier if men and women would hold hands, they would get caught by parents and reprimanded but now everything is...
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-The Hindu Two cotton farmers — Kudkala Chinnaiah, 41, of Tandra in MAMda mandal and Katkarla Swamy, 41, of Bhoraj in Jainad mandal in Adilabad district — committed suicide owing to failure of crop due to excessive rainfall. While Chinnaiah committed suicide by hanging from a tree on Sunday, Swamy consumed pesticide and ended his life on Monday. ...
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