Age Correspondent
Mumbai
Oct. 31: Even before the Maharashtra legislative Assembly’s first session begins, a political debate has started between the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and its rival Samajwadi Party with the SP MLA Abu Asim Azmi demanding the House agenda in Hindi.
The SP leader has demanded that he should be given the House agenda in Hindi...
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High prices along with floods and poor monsoon led to the fallIndia’s gold demand fell 49 per cent in the third quarter of the current calendar year due to high prices and a poor monsoon that hit consumer spending.According to the World Gold Council (WGC), total gold demand in India, the world’s largest consumer, fell to 137.6 tonnes in the third quarter ended September from 271.2 tonnes in the corresponding...
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India’s appetite for gold continued strong despite high prices in the third quarter of 2009. According to ‘Gold demand trend’, a report released by the World Gold Council (WGC), the third quarter demand for gold in India improved by 26 per cent over the previous quarter.However, absolute levels of demand remained weak as high rupee prices and a poor monsoon impacted consumer spending and confidence....
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Functioning of the out-patients department(OPD) of the Jawharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) here was affected for two hours today as the JIPMER Hospital Employees Union and Nurses Welfare Association abstained from work from 0700 hrs to 0900 hrs to press their demands.They were demanding the implementation of a seven-point charter of demands, including continuation...
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day after sugarcane farmers from western UP lay central Delhi to siege,it was the turn of lawyers from the same region who blocked Parliament Street onFriday demanding a separate high court bench in western UP.Hundredsof lawyers held demonstration at Jantar Mantar demanding the Central and stategovernments to stop passing the buck and take concrete steps to give respite tolakhs of people.Protesters...
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Tuticorin: Around 80 employees of TASMAC here staged a dharna near the first railway gate here on Thursday in support of their charter of demands including regularisation. E. Murugan, district president, TASMAC Employees Association, who spearheaded the agitation, demanded that all employees working in TASMAC should be made permanent and provided with regular scale of pay and benefits.They demanded...
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Demanding opening of the Kargil-Askardoo road with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), leaders of the Shia dominated Kargil district today also sought speedy development of the Ladakh region.Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CA&PD) and Transport, Qamar Ali Akhoon and another senior leader Feroz Ahmed Khan in a memorandum presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh projected various...
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Demand for gold waned by 49 per cent in the third quarter this year over the corresponding period last year, thanks to a surge in its prices, the World Gold Council (WGC) said today."In India, ...The exceptionally strong Q3'08 levels saw demand down by 49 per cent in Q3'09 comparisons" as high prices and a poor monsoon impacted on consumer spending and confidence, WGC said in a statement here.Jewellery...
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High prices and weak monsoon took the shine off gold during the third quarter of this year as demand for the yellow metal fell 49 per cent to 137.6 tonnes for July-September period, according to a World Gold Council report released today.While the jewellery demand dipped 42 per cent to 111.6 tonnes in the third quarter from a year earlier, the gold retail investment demand tumbled 67 per cent to 26...
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Kalahandi (Orissa), Nov 12 (ANI): Farmers in Kalahandi District have gone on an indefinite hunger strike today, demanding compensation for crop damage.Scores of farmers assembled at the Block office and met officials to highlight their demands.Paddy crops over thousands of hectares have been damaged by cash worm varieties of pests.The agitating farmers are demanding compensation, crop insurance benefits,...
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