West Bengal along with Orissa and Chattisgarh are opposed to price-pooling in coal, a top official of the West Bengal Power Department said on Thursday.

Bengal, Orissa & Chhattisgarh against coal price-pooling

Press Trust of India

The Uttarakhand government has sought a relief package of Rs 800 crore in the wake of a series of natural disasters caused by heavy rains that has wreaked havoc in the hill state.

Rain-hit Uttarakhand seeks Rs 800-crore relief

Business Standard

With BJP central leadership commencing the exercise to appoint a new chief for the party&rsquo;s Karnataka unit, supporters of former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, a keen aspirant for the job, on Thursday stepped their campaign in support of their leader.

BSY camp steps up campaign

Students of Osmania University on Thursday clashed with the city police after they were stopped from taking out a rally in support of &lsquo;Telangana March&rsquo; proposed in Hyderabad on Sept 30, a day before the commencement of the international biodiversity conference.

Student, police clash ahead of Telangana march

Allaying West Bengal's concern, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has written a letter to the state government saying there would be no discrimination against the state due to Congress-TMC break up.

No discrimination against Bengal: Ramesh

The Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region is in dialogue with the Finance Ministry for withdrawal of the minimum alternate tax which was acting as a deterrent for industries in the region.

DoNER minister to Fin Min for incentives

Bangladesh on Friday assured that the fallout of Teesta water sharing treaty will have no impact on bilateral relations with India.

Teesta water sharing fallout not to impact bilateral issues: Bangladesh

The recent diesel price hike is going to pinch the denizens of Guwahati further hard as public transport in the city is expected to become expensive from next month. The minimum bus fare is expected to rise by 50 per cent and minimum fare of share taxi by 60 per cent.

Public transport to become expensive in Guwahati

A six-member team of the M B Shah Commission appointed by Government of India to probe illegal mining in states is set to visit Odisha again on October 3. &rdquo;The investigation team would consist of officials from forest, mining and vigilance departments of Gujarat and Karnataka. The team will be here till October 11 and visit the various mining sites of the state,&rdquo; said a top official  of the state steel and mines department.

Shah commission to visit state on Oct 3

Cocking a snook at the BJP top brass, sulking former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today praised Congress leadership, including Sonia Gandhi&rsquo;s, asserting he would not hesitate to leave the party if his honour was at stake. &ldquo;Everything was all right in the party when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the President. The situation is not well now. There are problems in states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra,&rdquo; Yeddyurappa told reporters here. Yeddyurappa, who has boycotted the BJP National Executive at Surajkund for the first time in his over four-decade long association with the party, said the central leadership should devote attention towards correcting the situation, &ldquo;being experienced everywhere&rdquo;. His critical comments against the central leadership and, going a step further, praising Congress could not have at a worse time for the BJP than when it is holding its National Executive meeting.

BSY cocks a snook at BJP praises Cong

Visakhapatnam airport would soon have a full-fledged cargo handling terminal.

Vizag airport to get cargo terminal soon

The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Karnataka government for failing to comply with the Prime Minister-headed Cauvery River Authority&rsquo;s (CRA) directive to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. A bench of justices D K Jain and Madan Lokur warned Karnataka that if it failed to comply with the CRA directive, it (the bench) will have to pass appropriate orders.

SC pulls up state for failing to comply with CRA directive

The commerce ministry and the United Planters&rsquo; Association of South India (Upasi) are in talks with the Karnataka government to exempt value-added tax (VAT) levied on chemicals, fertiliser and nutrients used in plantations.

Min to ask Karnataka to exempt VAT on chemicals, fertiliser

The proposed high-speed rail corridor of  Kerala will have a length of 564 km connecting Thiruvananthapuram to Mangalore in Karnataka.

Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod in less than 3 hour

Union minister of state for commerce Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday allayed fears on any adverse effect of plantation crops on the rich biodiversity of the Western Ghats.

'Plantation will not harm Western Ghats' biodiversity'

The union coal secretary S K Srivastava ruled out any impact of the row over coal block allocation on the performances of the public sector Coal India Limited (CIL) saying that the company is surging ahead to achieve its ambitious target of 470 million tonne production in the current financial year.

Coal block row not to impact CIL output

Making its representation to get Goa region of Western Ghats included as world heritage site by UNESCO, the state forest department has said that its forests are the only home on earth for rare species of bat &ndash; The Giant Indian Mastiff.The forest department, in its draft letter prepared last week, to be submitted to UNESCO, has said rare 'Wroughton's free-tailed bat' (The Giant Indian Mastiff) has been recorded in this contiguous region, which is already declared protected.

Goa pitches for heritage list berth with rare bats in forests

A multi-state cooperative society registered under the Central Act cannot takeover a cooperative society registered under a State Act, held the Gujarat High court, early this week.

Multi-state coop society can't take over state coop society: Guj HC

Earlier, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had announced in a public meeting that pachayat polls would take place earlier than the scheduled time.

Bengal govt wants panchayat poll by January

Tourists travelling to Mysore for Dasara 2012 will miss the luxury and comfort of the spacious and modern Linke Hoffman Bush (LHB) refurbished coaches on the Mysore- Chennai Shatabdi Express, as Railways could continue running the train using the ordinary AC III-tier sleeper coaches beyond October.

Mysore-Chennai commuters miss Shatabdi's luxe

Iron ore output in the largest producing state Odisha would fall by around 10 per cent in 2012-13 due to evacuation problems as large quantity of unsold minerals stacked at the mining sites are hurting further production, said miners and industry bodies.

Odisha iron ore output may slip 10% in FY13 to 55 mt

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