'We are expecting lower levels in the week beginning March 1.'
'Police officers should be selected on merit and not on the basis of who is close to the political party in power.'
'Let me assure the nation on behalf of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha that our protests have not weakened at all or lost steam.'
'If the Union Budget can provide incentives for animal spirits to come as well as induce demand stimulus and consumption, the Budget would have done a wonderful job.'
'They had come to tell the government what their problem is (with the three farm laws) and cautioned the government that if you don't solve our problems we will continue our agitation.'
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope warns that the state government will go aggressive if appeals to reduce social distancing are not adhered to.
'If there is no outcome at Tuesday's meeting, then on the 30th thousands of tractors and farmers will march on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway.'
'They are doing a good surveillance job.' 'It is not easy to undertake this task on such a huge scale given the risks.' 'But home quarantine is not effective.' 'Only institutional quarantine can bring good results.'
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'Geological processes occur at time scales that are beyond human imagination, but we need to understand these events.'
'On that day, I decided no matter what harm comes my way, I am going out to help the poor.'
'Why shouldn't we talk against the BJP when it is solely responsible for bringing in these three laws by riding rough over Parliamentary procedures and norms?' 'We will talk against the BJP because it is the sole political party responsible for pushing these destructive farm laws'
In addition to 16 CCTV cameras, almost 700 police personnel have been deployed.
'The 100-metre stretch from the opening of this tunnel is completely flooded with debris; the oxygen supply (through the pipes) too had gotten over and the chances of any survivors inside this tunnel are very bleak. Nobody has been able to talk to the people trapped inside'
'But still they have filed FIRs against me under section 505 of the IPC.' 'These were draconian laws that were misused by the British East India Company against the soldiers who participated in the mutiny (of 1857).'
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'Hindus have fought for almost 500 years for the land and today our dream has been realised.'
'They are trying to lure our MLAs and that is why we are taking precautions.'
'All the Congress MLAs support Scindiaji and whenever he signals, they will jump ship.'
'In Maharashtra he didn't buckle under pressure.' 'We expect him to do the same as the CBI Director.'
'Airlines will need a war chest to deal with post-COVID economics.'
'This debate is going on all over the world and everybody is saying that only GDP cannot estimate the real (economic) situation of a country.'
'...to give him a signal that you cannot ignore Maharashtra, you are too close to the Centre.' 'I can see some kind of rivalry also in this, but it is better that the NIA goes deep into it.'
'But thereafter the same trend is again getting popular and that is what is disturbing and alarming.' 'If this practice goes unchecked, then the entire edifice of the rule of law which gives protection to citizens of this country would crumble into pieces.'
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'The Modi government must tell us what this person's connection with the BJP is.'
'There will be more than three to four lakh tractors and farmers, four to five times that number, displaying their resolve in front of a deaf, mute and a government blind to their plight.'
'Your confidence is shaken when the government does what it does these days, but then it is the same confidence that gives you the courage to stand up to the government's high-handedness.' 'There will always be people who will not fear jails or the physical and mental torture that visit citizens protesting against the government's draconian policies and laws.' 'There will always be Indians who will not be afraid to face the consequences of fighting for their Constitutional rights.'
'It was because of the huge selloff in the Indian equities that the rupee fell so sharply against the dollar on Friday.'
Prithviraj Chavan's statement has created another controversy for the ruling alliance in Maharashtra.
'I stand by my remarks against Rahul Gandhi. I also stand by what I said in that video,' says Yogesh Soman, director of Mumbai University's Academy of Theatre Arts who has been sent on 'forced leave' by Mumbai University.
'They wil show the whole world see how this government is treating its farmers.'
'The message has gone loud and clear (among the people of Assam) that the BJP is only interested in polarising (the country) and they are basically interested in (capturing votes in) the Hindi heartland and they don't bother much about rest of India.'
'Our legal team is doing their best to argue the matter in the court.'
'NCP wants the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress to come together and provide a stable government.'
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'We would advise investors to hold on to multi-cap funds and not invest further until further clarity emerges.'
'If Mamata Banerjee doesn't want, then violence cannot be stopped.'
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