| Sugar mills continue to remain shut across western UP | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Work continued to remain stalled in sugar mills across western Uttar Pradesh, with farmers refusing to sell their produce over cane prices, even as the factories officially began their crushing season here. |
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| Pilots asso stages protest at Mumbai airport | 17-NOV-09 |
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| A section of Air India pilots owing allegiance to the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) today staged a silent march at the domestic airport in Mumbai to protest delay in payment of salaries and allowances. |
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| T N Ninan: No one barked | 14-NOV-09 |
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| If you’re looking for the dog that did not bark, look no further than the (lack of) response to the government’s recent economic policy pronouncements. Two weeks ago, the home minister announced the Cabinet’s decision to list on the stock market all qualifying (e.g. profitable) state-owned companies, with a minimum float of 10 per cent. Already listed companies with a smaller float would take up their public stake to 10 per cent. |
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| BJP bandh in Delhi against price rise has partial impact | 13-NOV-09 |
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| A BJP-sponsored bandh to protest hike in bus fares and skyrocketing prices of essential commodities had partial impact in the city today, with only some markets remaining closed and traffic plying normally. Schools, government offices and other institutions functioned normally. |
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| Lawyers protest Dinakaran's continuance | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, facing land grabbing allegations, was today forced to suspend proceedings and leave his court amid noisy protests by a section of lawyers who abstained from court protesting his continuance. |
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| Non-teaching IIT staff protest pay anomalies | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Over 12,000 non-teaching staff of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on a day-long dharna today to protest anomalies in pay and promotion structure. The employees — technical staff, laboratory staff and office assistants — however, did not boycott work. |
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| Mayawati protests sugar price move, writes to PM | 01-NOV-09 |
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| The tug-of-war between the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government on sugarcane prices refuses to end with Chief Minister Mayawati asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to review a recent Cabinet decision that requires states to pay the difference between the central government-announced fair and remunerative price (FRP) and the state-advised price (SAP). |
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