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More Kingfisher flights hit, chaos likely to continue

The DGCA said Sunday it hadn’t been informed by Kingfisher Airlines in adv-ance about cancellations and largescale disruption of flights, as these wreaked havoc at airports across the country on Sunda

Govt to talk to allies before final FDI call

The Centre has decided to take a final call on FDI in retail after talking to its allies. Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday spoke to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is also the Trinamul Congress

Petrol price hike: Congress gives govt a price theory

The government on Saturday remained adamant on the hike in petrol prices at a time when political parties, cutting across ideologies, came together to oppose it. On the other hand the ruling Congress

Cong gives govt a price theory

Yuvraj Singh with an unidentified girl during a practice session in New Delhi on Saturday, a day before the first Test against

The government on Saturday remained adamant on the hike in petrol prices at a time when political parties, cutting across ideologies, came together to oppose it.

STF detains 14-year-old boy in connection with Delhi HC blast

One week after a bomb blast rocked New Delhi, killing 13 persons outside the Delhi High Court, the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police on Wednesday detained a 14-year-old boy for sending two ho

SC halts Singur land return till HC ruling

Warning against making the Singur land dispute a political issue, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal from returning 1,000 acres acquired from farmers for Tata Motors’ Nano small car project by the previous Left Front government.

Allies protest hike, Mamata cut kindest

The UPA allies on Saturday joined the Opposition in targeting the government over the hike in the prices of diesel, LPG and kerosene while West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamul Congress is also an ally of the government at the Centre, waived the state cess on domestic LPG cylinders, making it `16 cheaper for the consumer.

PC invites Buddha, he says too busy

After home minister P. Chidambaram’s letter to West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asking the state government to disarm CPI(M) cadres left the state chief minister visibly perturbed, the home minister on Thursday wrote two more letters to Mr Bhattacharjee, this time inviting him for talks to Delhi.

CPM faces Opp. ire over ‘Radia links’

Adding to the sustained pandemonium in the Parliament over Opposition’s demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into alleged 2-G spectrum allocation scam, Congress and Trinamul Congress MPs on Monday flashed copies of The Asian Age containing the story — CPM squirms over Bengal government-Radia links — on the floor of the Lok Sabha.

Paper sorry for Mamata ad

No action has yet been taken on the complaint lodged by the Railways against a company which published an advertisement, showing railway minister Mamata Banerjee modelling for its brand of hawai chappal. The ad was published in a Kolkata-based newspaper, which belongs to a Trinamul Rajya Sabha MP.

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