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When I'm CM
West Bengal’s assembly elections may be due only in early 2011, but that’s not stopping Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee from preparing to become the state’s next chief minister. She has assigned two economists the task of preparing a blueprint for the economic revival of the state. Both economists are frequent contributors to various newspapers and are known to be votaries of free enterprise.

Support around 4,300-4,400 in near future
The Nifty closed below its support zone of 4,400-4,500 on weak global cues and profit-booking. Worries about the pace of the global economic recovery and poor monsoon added to the gloom. Metals, realty and oil & gas stocks led the sell-off. By the close of the Indian trading session, European markets were down over 2 per cent. The 158 declines in Dow futures indicated a weak opening.

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PIL filed in High Court in Ruchika case
A PIL was today filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court here seeking a probe into the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, including her expulsion by a local school, and the subsequent harassment of her family.
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MNP to be delayed; DoT calls meeting tomorrow

Mobile telephone subscribers would have to wait a little longer to change their service provider without changing their numbers. The introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) across the country would be delayed by about two to three months, as some of the operators are not ready, said a senior official of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). - 3G auction shortly: PM - Call transfer: Users set to port number for new experience - MNP to hit big firms: Analysts - MNP likely to be delayed - "Will number portability hit old telcos?" - Cell users can change telcos for Rs 19 only We have had discussions with some of the operators, including BSNL and MTNL, which suggests we would miss the December deadline, he said. In a related development, the department of telecommunications (DoT) has convened a meeting of all telecom service providers, Syniverse Technologies and MNP Interconnection Telecom Solution India on Thursday to review the subject. Syniverse and MNP Interconnection are the two MNP operators selected to implement the service in India. At the Thursday meeting, all service providers and the MNP operators to give an update on their readiness for providing MNP. MNP service was to be introduced by December 31 in the metros and by March 2010 in the rest of the country. Mobile subscribers need to pay a maximum of just Rs 19 for availing the service. The process is to take four days. MNP is expected to help expand competition between the service providers, besides acting as a catalyst to improve their quality of service. Industry sources said, a fourth of mobile users would like to shift to a new service provider.


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