The meeting of the Left parties comes in the wake of the letter written to them by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, conveying the government's decision that the BHEL disinvestment has been kept in abeyance.
The Congress, in such an eventuality, is ready to accommodate smaller allies like the RPI to forge a formidable secular alliance that could easily shake off the Shiv Sena-BJP challenge in the civic polls.
An official of the fire and emergency services department said that 11 fire tenders including one each from Panchkula and Mohali were pressed into service to quickly control the blaze.
In separate letters in Hindi to Modi and Tomar, the AIKSCC said that the government is wrong in assuming that the farmers' agitation against the three farm laws is being engineered by opposition parties.
They are also likely to demand a second round of cabinet expansion soon.
The fast-moving events of the past few days events have made one thing clear: The Left party leaders have reached the limits of their tolerance.
Your morning omelet may cost you less in the coming days with the prices of eggs showing a downward trend. Prices of eggs and chicken are bound to fall as the poultry industry expects an increase in supply.
From Chief Minister EK Palaniswami to Seeman to TTV Dhinakaran to elder brother M K Azhagiri, everyone's favourite target these days seems to the DMK chief Stalin, which is good news in an election year, but that doesn't mean he is going to sweep the polls, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Declaring the organisational poll results to top two posts, party's election official C Ponnaiyan said Panneerselvam and Palaniswami were elected unanimously, without contest to the posts of Coordinator and Joint Coordinator respectively.
Claiming losses to the tune of Rs 1500 crore (Rs 15 billion) to the poultry industry due to bird flu, National Egg Coordination Committee on Wednesday said the fear was so intense that people were unwilling to accept poultry products even for free.
The Left parties on Wednesday asked the government to reduce prices of LPG and diesel and restore 9.5 per cent interest rate on Employees Provident Fund.
The Left parties would strongly raise the issue of hike in petroleum prices at the meeting of the coordination committee with the UPA government, which was postponed on Thursday due to the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will present options, including raising prices of LPG and kerosene for the rich, to bridge the vast gap between the cost of fuel and their current retail price
The Bihar State Electricity Board on March 17 served a notice regarding outstanding dues amounting to about Rs 1.25 crore pertaining to the past five years.
These include Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary and Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh and Shahgarh Bulge, Bhainsrorgarh Wildlife Sanctuary and enclosure of Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan.
Mamata Bannerjee, a key United Progressive Alliance constituent, has put the cat amongst the pigeons by demanding that the UPA set up a co-ordination committee to discuss important issues and decisions before they are made and implemented. She said the recent petrol price hike was undertaken without her consent.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, around 20 injured students under the Jamia Coordination Committee narrated what they claimed were police brutalities. The students claimed over 50 of them received injuries on their chest, stomach and their private parts during the scuffle.
Senior Congress leader and coalition coordination committee chief Siddaramaiah on Saturday meanwhile, asserted that the government in Karnataka would continue.
The government believes firms which are subject to China's laws could be forced to hand over information to Beijing's security services.
Over 7,500 party leaders, including assembly constituency-level coordination committee members, will get mobiles.
The businessmen in the Maharashtra have given a cry of 'remove Ajit Pawar' against the high tariff of electricity.
The journalist-turned-politician was the lone Rajya Sabha member of the Loktantrik Congress Party and a member of the NDA Coordination Committee.
A senior police official said adequate personnel have been deployed inside and outside the court to ensure no untoward incident takes place in the future.
She has been booked under the anti-terror law in a case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi in February. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana granted the interim relief from June 10 to June 19 to Jahan on furnishing two sureties of Rs 1 lakh.
Actor-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Hyderabad on Wednesday and walked with Rahul Gandhi.
She said that the ruling Congress governments failure on all fronts would ensure her partys victory.
The assistance could also include the dispatch of the elite National Security Guards and Air Force choppers.
The Union accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of "shirking political responsibility" of resolving the crisis.
Addressing a press conference at Singhu Border in New Delhi, farmer leader Balbeer Singh Rajewal said that farmers never demanded the Supreme Court form a committee to resolve the impasse, alleging the central government was behind this development.
The government allowed sugar companies and distilleries to make hand sanitizers using ethanol. Sugar companies supply ethanol to oil marketing companies for blending with petrol.
Reports of T R Zeliang relinquishing the chair of Nagaland Chief Minister on 'moral grounds' following persistent demand of the Naga tribal organisations is spreading like wild fire throughout the state but the Chief Minister's Office and ruling party termed these as baseless.
Over 3,500 police personnel have deployed as the farmers began their march from the Ramlila Maidan to Parliament at 10.30 am.
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