New Delhi: A section of the Congress party is also against diesel peice hike and cap on subsidised LPG cylinders. After Food Minister KV Thomas, another Union Minister has publicly demanded an increase in the cap on LPG cylinders. Union Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs, Agriculture and Food Processing Industries, Harish Rawat wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday morning asking that subsidies on LPG cylinders be raised. Thomas...
02:16 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that she would not "compromise on principles and on anti-poor decisions". Referring to her 72-hour deadline to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government to rollback diesel price hike, remove the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders and disallow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, Mamata said that she would take the final decision after meeting...
01:03 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 72-hour deadline to the government to roll back fuel price hike, LPG cap and FDI in retail ends. However, the Congress does not look worried and is in no mood to go back on its decisions. However, sources say back channel talks are on between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mamata Banerjee and the Congress says it's hoping...
11:34 AM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi finally stepped into the ongoing tussle between the Centre and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the economic reforms introduced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to bring the economy back on track. Mamata's 72-hour deadline for the rollback of reforms that included 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail, hike in diesel prices and a cap on subsidised LPG cylinders, ends on Tuesday...
11:32 AM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: The deadline given by Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the government to roll back the diesel price hike, the LPG hike and the FDI in retail decision ends on Tuesday. Mamata has warned of taking tough decisions, but it remains to be seen if she will take the extreme step of withdrawing support from the UPA. The UPA's strength is currently 273...
10:21 AM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: All eyes will be on Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as her 72-hour deadline to the government to roll back fuel price hike, LPG cap and FDI in retail ends. The Trinamool Congress will decide whether to withdraw support from the UPA. The Congress, though, is confident of convincing Mamata to stay. Mamata has threatened to take a tough decision to protest against...
07:37 AM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Food Minister KV Thomas has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against LPG cap and diesel price hike. The decision to raise diesel price as well as to keep number of subsidised cooking cylinder at six a year will not go well with the middle class, he said in the letter. He said the government should charge only Rs 50 extra for consumers seeking between 7 to 12...
09:40 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: Even as Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday ruled out a roll back on diesel prices, sources in the Centre indicated a possible partial roll back on the cap imposed on domestic LPG cylinders. The move could be one way to placate unhappy allies like Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has announced that in the state, the cap will be relaxed...
08:52 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Samajwadi Party leader Mohan Singh has said that the party will review the situation and decide about its support to UPA-II. ...
12:51 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress has warned the UPA to expect tough decisions as Mamata Banerjee's 72-hour deadline to the government ticks away. It remains to be seen whether the TMC will exit the Cabinet and provide outside support. "We oppose the anti-people policies of the government, be it the diesel price hike, LPG or FDI in retail," TMC leader Kunal Ghosh said. However, he added that the party's intention...
10:28 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Kolkata: Stressing that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) can oppose and offer its own proposals even while staying in the union government, West Bengal state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharjee on Sunday said that there will be no problem to its stability if the party decides to quit. Bhattacharjee's comment comes at a point when the TMC is planning to take a "hard decision" if the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government...
10:23 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena has opposed the fuel hike. The party has also dared Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to pull out of the UPA, and not just make empty threats. "Mamata Banerjee keeps threatening the UPA government. But now is the time for her to show what she can do," Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray said. He also asked Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)...
08:17 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray said that now is the time for Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to show what she will do. ...
03:50 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: The steepest ever Rs 5.63 a litre hike in price not withstanding, diesel in India is still cheaper than its neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh as also the US and the European countries. Diesel prices were on September 14 raised by Rs 5.63 per litre to Rs 46.95 a litre in Delhi. Even so, diesel in India costs less than Bangladesh where a litre costs Rs 49.08, and in...
02:14 PM, Sep 16, 2012
The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission further said that allies like Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee were consulted before pushing for big-ticket reforms like the FDI in multi-brand retail. ...
09:15 AM, Sep 16, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday equated the Centre's decision to hike diesel price to a "terror strike" and asked UPA allies to quit the government. "Kasab killed 200 people. Now, at least 30 crore poor people in the country have been devastated in the Manmohan Singh-Sonia Gandhi-led terror strike," Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'. Trinamool Congress, DMK and NCP should quit the government...
05:32 AM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: With the UPA choosing economic reforms over coalition politics to make way for FDI in retail and fuel price hike, its allies and supporting parties on Saturday expressed strong opposition to the decision but gave no indication of withdrawal of their support to the government, except Trinamool Congress which threatened to take hard measures. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday took to the streets with the warning...
10:45 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Mamata Banerjee threatens to withdraw support to the UPA government if LPG, diesel and retail FDI decisions are not rolled back by Tuesday. ...
09:55 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: Days after the steepest diesel price hike, oil companies on Saturday raised premium or branded petrol and diesel rates by Rs 6.36 and Rs 19.55 per litre, respectively. The government, on Thursday, had raised diesel price by Rs 5.63 per litre and allowed the oil companies to price premium or branded petrol and diesel at market prices. Subsequently, the premium or branded petrol in Delhi is being sold...
09:27 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by LDF and BJP to protest hike in diesel prices and curtail LPG subsidy affected normal life across Kerala but passed off peacefully. Reports from different districts said the hartal crippled mobility of people as buses, taxis and autorickshaws kept off the roads and shops and hotels were closed. But for isolated incidents of stoning of vehicles, no violence was reported from anywhere in the...
06:57 PM, Sep 15, 2012
