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'NCP wants to fight M'rashtra assembly polls with Cong'
Nationalist Congress Party"s (NCP) Maharashtra unit chief R R Patil today said that the party intends to fight forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections in alliance with Congress.

Ghosts of Beijing lurk in Brussels
For six years I had lived in Beijing, the constantly churning capital of a dynamic country on the ascent. But I was now to move again, this time to Brussels, the bureaucratic centre of old world Europe. There were many counts on which this was a change I wasn’t looking forward to. But the one positive I did anticipate was an escape from the paroxysm of construction that was emblematic of Beijing’s remorseless embrace of modernity.

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Singur land not 'formally' sought: Industry minister
The West Bengal government had not sought return of the land at Singur from Tata Motors ‘formally’, said West Bengal commerce and industry minister Nirupam Sen, a day after Ratan Tata said the government had not approached for the land. Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar organized by Assocham in association with the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce, Sen said, though the government had not formally asked for the land, the company had been informed about the Bhel proposal and later the Railways proposal. Sen said, unless the Railways submitted a formal proposal, the government would not ask for the land back. With Sen’s comments, it appears that Singur was once again in limbo, as Railways has made it clear that it would not visit the land as it belonged to Tata Motors.
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PM takes wings

Around four months ago, the new Boeing airplane for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in India. But the prime minister didn’t get an opportunity to fly in it because of the elections. Now, Singh has used the plane to fly to Thailand for the 7th India-Asean summit. The ultra-modern aircraft has a bedroom and a conference room for the prime minister apart from special chambers for his aides. It is equipped with security gadgets of the likes used in Airforce One to protect the US president.


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