Bombay Informer

Patna, May 20 (IBNS) Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Legislative Council member Sanjay Singh on Monday filed a criminal defamation suit against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav for allegedly using unparliamentary language against him. Full News here – Sify.com

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Wholesalers in the city would continue to observe bandh against the local body tax (LBT) even as associations representing retailers called off their strike yesterday. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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“We have called off the retailers strike because of the various requests from retailers and consumers from several areas due to festival period and Akshaya Tritiya,” said Viren Shah, president of FRTWA. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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All wholesalers and grocery shops observed a bandh in Nashik’s Ravivar Karanja, M G Road, Shivaji Road and Main Road localities. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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Home Minister RR Patil on Saturday promised stringent action against Navi Mumbai police officials who did not take action against a dance bar in Panvel, forcing state DGP Sanjeev Dayal to ask the Thane police to step in. The Thane police had on Thursday night raided the Kapal bar on the old Mumbai-Goa highway and [...]

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The Bombay high court has asked the Centre and Maharashtra to file by May 24 their response to two PILs seeking CBI probe into alleged siphoning of public funds, illegalities in tender process and poor quality of work done.      Full News here – Mumbai News, News in Mumbai, Mumbai City News | Cities News [...]

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Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari Tuesday condemned as “objectionable” the comments by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj accusing Congress president Sonia Gandhi of inciting Congress members and creating a ruckus in the lower house. Full News here – Sify.com

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Mumbai  :  Millions of Mumbaikars could go hungry Monday as around 20,000 hotels, restaurants, licenced tea and snacks outlets as well as ubiquitous vada-paav stalls go on strike to protest the new service tax (ST). “In Mumbai, around 18,000-20,000 hotels and restaurants have expressed solidarity with the move to protest the new ST on fully [...]

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Kolkata: Compounding the miseries of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, employees of a news channel run by the collapsed Saradha Group lodged an FIR against party MP Kunal Ghosh while protests Full News here – Sify.com

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New Delhi: The Congress’s bid to get a clean chit for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam seems in jeopardy with 15 Opposition members of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on telecom expressing a lack… Full News here – The Times of India (Mumbai edition)

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Most retail shops remained open but wholesalers across the city and Navi Mumbai were shut by traders over the Local Bobdy Tax (LBT). Over 17,000 traders across the city participated in a morcha organized by the Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM) at Azad Maidan on Monday afternoon.Even today, the protest rally continues. Full News [...]

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Raj had referred to a Bombay High Court decision of February 2012 as ‘partisan’: petition Full News here – Top Headlines

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Fr S Almeida, managing director of Fr Agnel Technical Education Complex, admitted that he had not gone through the content of the book before circulating it among students. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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Thane (Maharashtra)  :  Over a dozen vehicles, including six government buses, were damaged Thursday during a shutdown here to protest the ongoing drive against illegal constructions in the city and surroundings, officials said. According to police, several vehicles were damaged in the Teen Haat Naka area of the city when the shutdown started early Thursday. [...]

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