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“A firm alternative course should be made as nobody is fighting against ongoing fascism,”Mamata Banerjee said. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – seen as making a beeline for the political space occupied by the Congress – today indicated that she is visualising a fresh opposition line-up for the next general elections. And this, she made clear, is being done because “nobody is fighting against the ongoing fascism”. “What is UPA? There is no UPA,” Ms Banerjee declared after her meeting with Nationalist Congress chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai this afternoon. …

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Farmer leaders from Punjab also said that the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the future course of action. Terming the repeal of the farm laws in Parliament a victory of the protesters, farmer leaders from Punjab urged the Centre to decide on their other demands, including legal guarantee of minimum support price for crops, in the session on Tuesday. They also said that the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the future course of action.…

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to meet Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and her Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be on a three-day visit to Mumbai from tomorrow, during which he is scheduled to meet Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and her Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray. She is also expected to meet industrialists in Mumbai on December 1 and invite them to Bengal Global Business Summit, to be held in April next year. “Mamata Banerjee will be on three-day…

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Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from the ESI Hospital at Rajajinagar in Bengaluru. Nearly a year and a half after they lost their loved ones to Covid, two families in Bengaluru have received news that’s as painful as their loss — the bodies have been rotting for over a year in the hospital’s mortuary. Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from Employees’ State Insurance Corporation and Model…

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Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said the samples have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. A passenger back from South Africa has tested positive for a Covid strain “different than Delta”, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said today and added that the state government is closely looking at the new ‘Omicron’ strain that has set off alarm bells across the country. The test samples, he said, have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. This comes after two South African nationals…

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The Delhi Assembly on Friday suspended BJP MLA Jitender Mahajan from its one-day special session and also marshalled out BJP legislators Anil Bajpai and Mohan Singh Bisht for allegedly disrupting the proceedings of the House. Other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs walked out of the House to boycott the proceedings in support of their suspended and marshalled out colleagues. As soon as the proceedings of the special session began, the BJP MLAs demanded to be heard on various issues such as the new liquor policy, rising air pollution in the…

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