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Month: July 2013

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  • Seemandhra seethes over state’s division

    Seemandhra seethes over state’s division

    Cong  leaders from two regions meet CM to discuss future course of action agencies Hyderabad, 31 July Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions erupted in fury today, a day after the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coordination committee agreed to the division of Andhra Pradesh and the formation of a separate Telangana state. Politicians in the two...

    July 31, 2013
  • Separate state decision singes TDP, YSR Congress

    Separate state decision singes TDP, YSR Congress

    stanley theodore  [email protected] Hyderabad, 31 July The 30-year-old Telugu Desam Party and the two-year-old YSR Congress stand singed with the announcement that Telangana would be the 29th state of the Indian Union. If elections are held in Andhra Pradesh — notification of a new state would take six to seven months — Mr N Chandrababu...

    July 31, 2013
  • Congress non-committal on spate of demands

    Congress non-committal on spate of demands

    New Delhi, 31 July : As the Congress top brass and UPA’s decision in favour of Telangana statehood sparked fresh demands for creation of other smaller states from across the country, the Congress today remained non-committal over such demands and on the question of setting up of a Second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC). The All...

    July 31, 2013
  • GTA will not be dissolved, says Mamata

    GTA will not be dissolved, says Mamata

    statesman news service Kolkata, 31 July Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today ruled out the dissolution of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJMM) called an indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling Hills to press for its demand for a separate state. The state government also accepted the resignation of GJMM chief Bimal Gurung...

    July 31, 2013
  • Sports briefs

    Sports briefs

    Devvarman wins: India’s Somdev Devvarman notched up a stunning 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) victory over defending champion Alexandr Dolgopolov to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the ATP 500 Citi Open in Washington. Steaua triumph: Romania’s Steaua Bucharest defeated hosts Dinamo Tbilisi with two unanswered goals  in their first leg of the third-round qualification of the 2013-2014...

    July 31, 2013
  • once a vibrant water body

    once a vibrant water body

    filled up to make way for road connecting buildings with throughfare Pradip Chatterjee [email protected] Kolkata, 31 July A huge water body off Eastern Metropolitan bypass has been filled up to facilitate construction of roads connecting various private housing complexes with the main thoroughfare. This is despite chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s repeated pleas for stringent measures against those filling...

    July 31, 2013
  • Bus operators introduce plastic tokens flouting RBI norms

    Bus operators introduce plastic tokens flouting RBI norms

    APARAJIT CHAKRABORTY [email protected] Kolkata, 31 July The state transport department, including the private bus operators have introduced plastic coins to give exchange for fares, but the whole arrangement is illegal and violates the Reserve Bank of India rules. Private bus operators and state transport operators throughout the state have been facing acute shortage of coins. As a...

    July 31, 2013
  • Dengue claims its first victim in city

    Dengue claims its first victim in city

    GURVINDER SINGH [email protected] Kolkata, 31 July Dengue claimed its first victim this monsoon when a minor girl from Dignal village in Durgapur, 165 km from Kolkata, succumbed to the deadly disease. The vector-borne disease had officially claimed 11 lives in the state last year, though unofficial estimates suggest the figure could be much higher. The...

    July 31, 2013
  • Trinamul Congress activists in dilemma over Mamata’s stance

    Trinamul Congress activists in dilemma over Mamata’s stance

    STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Siliguri, 31 July The Trinamul activists are in a dilemma in several gram panchayats in north Bengal districts where they do not have a majority number of elected members and they are in no position to seek help from others at a time when Miss Mamata Banerjee is keeping equidistance branding the rival parties as foes at...

    July 31, 2013
  • BLPF appeals to people to pressurise MLAs

    BLPF appeals to people to pressurise MLAs

    STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Gangtok, 31 July Newly formed Bhutia Lepcha Protection Force (BLPF) has appealed to the Bhutia-Lepcha people to pressurise their respective MLAs to speak out in defence of the interests of the community when their constitutional rights are being attacked at random in Sikkim, their homeland. “If they cannot speak out against the injustice, they have no right to be...

    July 31, 2013
  • Meet to chalk out strategy on hung ZP

    Meet to chalk out strategy on hung ZP

    Neither Trinamul nor Left Front untouchable: Dalu STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Malda, 31 July “Neither the Trinamul Congress nor the Left Front is untouchable for us to form the board in Malda Zilla Parishad (MZP). Whoever we seek the support from, there is no doubt that we would come to power in the MZP for the...

    July 31, 2013
  • TMC achieves satisfactory result in Itahar

    TMC achieves satisfactory result in Itahar

    Statesman News Service Raiganj, 31 July In Hemtabad and Goalpokhar-II samitis of North Dinajpur district, the TMC candidates failed to win any seat. In Raiganj panchayat samiti they won only one seat. The Trinamul Congress leaders blamed the “secret alliance” between the Congress and Left Front for the setback. However, the TMC achieved remarkable results...

    July 31, 2013
  • Bandh call

    Bandh call

    Jammu, 31 July: Amid massive protests and blockade of Jammu-Poonch highway, bandh was today observed in several towns of Rajouri and Poonch against death of Amarnath pilgrim, who sustained fatal injuries in stone-pelting in Ramban district. Expressing sorrow over his death, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had yesterday announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh to his family. Over 1,500 protesters, raising anti-government slogans assembled...

    July 31, 2013
  • UP violence

    UP violence

    Lucknow, 31 July: Tension gripped areas of the old city when two groups of the same sect allegedly indulged in arson and resorted to brick-batting during a religious procession in Bazar Khala. “The incident took place this morning when the procession of 21st Ramzan with 25,000 people was being taken out in old city by the Shia community”, IG (Law and...

    July 31, 2013
  • Maya renews call for state division

    Maya renews call for state division

    BSP supremo regrets centre keeping demand pending statesman news service Lucknow, 31 July With the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre giving its go-ahead to the creation of the new state of Telangana by bifurcating Andhra Pradesh, the demand for dividing Uttar Pradesh into four small states has picked up steam once again. Today Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati reiterated her demand for dividing UP...

    July 31, 2013
  • ‘Took a month to plan Pak jail attack, spent 1 crore’

    ‘Took a month to plan Pak jail attack, spent 1 crore’

    Operation was named ‘Marg-e-Nijat’ and was launched to set free 6 militants Press Trust of India Peshawar, 31 July A day after the Taliban freed over 250 prisoners from a high-security Pakistani prison, a top commander of the terror outfit has said they took a month to plan the assault and spent Rs one crore...

    July 31, 2013
  • Verdict on legality of Jamaat today

    Verdict on legality of Jamaat today

    Ruling to determine if party will participate in Bangla polls press trust of india Dhaka, 31 July A Bangladesh court is set to give its verdict tomorrow on whether or not fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami is legal that will have a bearing on the participation of the country&’s biggest right-wing party in future elections. “The verdict is...

    July 31, 2013

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