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KOLKATA: State Assembly elections in Assam are expected to be held early next year. As political parties are probing the possibility of new permutations and combinations, certain issues are coming to the fore. These are likely to occupy centrestage by the time the polls are announced.

LUCKNOW: The renomination of Mrs. Rita Bahuguna as Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president has made it clear that the party high command is quite serious about Mission 2012.

Warning bells are ringing from Andhra Pradesh on the separate Telegnana issue once again. With the justice Sri Krishna commission, which is looking into the issue, scheduled to give report on December 31, things are warming up in the state. Several stakeholders are getting ready for the D day.

NEW DELHI: India will strongly demand enhanced role of the emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs) in the international financial regulatory system at the coming G-20 Summit at Seoul on November 11 and India's stand will be that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will really be seen to have changed only if the shift comes primarily from the advanced economies to the EMDCs and not mainly by internal readjustment of quota shares amongst EMDCs.

New Delhi, Oct 27 : The Union government is planning to review the bans imposed on cotton and sugar exports. On the issue of allowing foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the multi-brand retail chain, it would discuss with the state governments.

New Delhi, Oct 27 : The railway minister, Mamata Banerjee has demanded Rs 100,000 crore from the government fund for completing all the pending projects of the railways.

New Delhi, Oct 27 : The Union minister for road transport and highways, Kamal Nath has sought additional funds from the finance ministry for repairing the damages caused to roads due to landslides and heavy rains, this year. The roads in the hilly states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh are damaged at places due to landslides.

New Delhi, Oct 27 : The government has said that though the price control mechanism for petrol has been deregulated, it has the right to suitably intervene in pricing of petrol and diesel in event of high rise in global prices.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: More than a month after the Kerala Government served an ultimatum to the Dubai-based Tecom company, clouds of uncertainty continue to hover over the Smart City project.

When the Cabinet Committee on Security adopted “a new political initiative” on Jammu and Kashmir on September 25, lofty expectations were raised that high-level interlocutors would be appointed to begin a dialogue with the state's political parties and civil society groups. This was considered the only novel, and certainly the most important, feature of the 8-point plan of action, which otherwise recycles the shop-worn “package” approach to Kashmir. It was also regarded as the logical follow-up to the September 20-21 all-parties delegation visit to J&K, itself remarkable.