Presidential poll: Pranab to visit Kolkata today

June 22, 2012

Pranab

Kolkata, June 22: With Mamata Banerjee still keeping her cards close to her chest when other parties have announced their stand on the presidential poll, Congress president Sonia Gandhi doesn't want to lose an important ally even if it means "stooping" before her for the moment.

Sonia, instead, is looking beyond the presidential poll to keep the UPA family united when all other blocks, including the NDA and the Left, are divided on the issue.

The UPA's presidential candidate, Pranab Mukherjee, has been entrusted with the job of breaking the ice with Mamata. How he does it has been left to the veteran troubleshooter.

Mukherjee, who will reach Kolkata on Friday night, is scheduled to leave for his ancestral home at Miriti village in Birbhum on Saturday morning. All eyes will be on whether he pays the Trinamool chief a visit. Congress leaders in Delhi are not sure if their presidential candidate will meet Mamata now or keep it for the formal campaign tour after filing his nomination on June 30. But that may be too late to pacify Mamata, feel some Congress leaders.

According to Congress insiders, Mukherjee is trying to send feelers to Mamata through politicians and government officials, some of whom are already in touch her. The Congress wants to initiate a dialogue with her at the earliest because BJP's Sushma Swaraj has already indicated that her party is in talks with the Bengal chief minister to get Trinamool on board.

There was speculation in political circles that BJP's presidential nominee P A Sangma may visit Kolkata on the same day as Mukherjee. Trinamool leaders claimed no such knowledge. James Sangma, the former Lok Sabha Speaker's son, denied that his father had any plans to visit Kolkata on Friday.

A Trinamool veteran pointed out that it would be difficult for Mamata to support Sangma because the former Speaker was with the Trinamool for a short time in 1995, but deserted it as he has dumped the NCP now.

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Petrol Hiked By 57 Paise Per Litre, Diesel By 59 Paise In 6th Increase In A Row

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June 12,2020

New Delhi, Jun 12: Petrol price on Friday was hiked by 57 paise per litre and diesel by 59 paise a litre as oil companies adjusted retail rates - the sixth straight day of increase in rates since oil firms ended an 82-day hiatus of rate revision.

Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to Rs 74.57 per litre from Rs 74, while diesel rates were increased to Rs 72.81 a litre from Rs 72.22, according to a price notification of state oil marketing companies.

Rates have been increased across the country and vary in each state depending on the incidence of local sales tax or value added tax.

This is the sixth consecutive daily increase in rates since oil companies on Sunday restarted revising prices in line with costs, after ending an 82-day hiatus.

In six hikes, petrol price has gone up by Rs 3.31 per litre and diesel by Rs 3.42.

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'FIR against journalist for report on Modi’s adopted village an act of intimidation'

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June 20,2020

Lucknow, Jun 20: A media body on Saturday described as "an act of intimidation" the filing of an FIR in Uttar Pradesh against a journalist over a report on the impact of the lockdown on a village, saying it was part of an "established pattern" of harassment of independent scribes.

In a statement, the Media Foundation put on record its strong protest over the FIR filed by the Uttar Pradesh government against Supriya Sharma, executive editor of news portal Scroll.in.

The case was filed against Sharma for allegedly misrepresenting facts in a report on the impact of the lockdown in a village adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, police sources had said on Thursday.

The FIR against Sharma and the Scroll editor-in-chief is an "an act of intimidation and a case of abuse of process", intended to discourage honest and critical reporting, the Media Foundation said.

The Media Foundation was started in 1979 with the aim of upholding freedom of speech, expression and information.

The FIR against Sharma is only the latest instance of similar coercive actions against professional journalists, part of "an established pattern of harassment and humiliation of independent journalists", it said,

"It is an unacceptable encroachment on press freedom," said the foundation, whose chairperson is veteran journalist Harish Khare.

The Media Foundation called upon the judiciary, and central and state governments to uphold the spirit of freedom of speech and expression as guaranteed in the Constitution.

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people who speak truth will be send to jail and the people who speak lie will get award..we dont understant which religion they following...may be they following devil religion of RSS.....hindu brother must come out from deep sleep to protect the real value of hindusim...today all evil people in BJP will take protection for their evil deed by using hindu gods...

God clearely said in the quran, dont worship material bcoz one day some evil people will come and use this to control you and destroy you..

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RBI cuts repo rate by 40 bps to 4 pc to increase credit flow

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May 22,2020

Mumbai, May 22: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday reduced repo rate by 40 basis points to 4 per cent in an effort to further boost liquidity in the economy which has been reeling under the impact of COVID-19 induced countrywide lockdown.

As a result, the reverse repo rate stands at 3.35 per cent, said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. The six-member monetary policy committee (MPC) voted 5:1 in favour of the decision.

Repo rate is the rate at which a country's central bank lends money to commercial banks, and the reverse repo rate is the rate at which it borrows from them.

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