The Oil Sectors Officers Association (OSOA) has announced to call off strike with immediate effect following threats of stern action against striking officers of oil sector companies by Union Government.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Union Cabinet have taken tough stance against officers that prompted OSOA to re-think on strike.
The employees of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited and Oil India Limited called off their strike by noon and Indian Oil Corporation and Gas Authority of India Limited Unions' followed the footsteps to avoid government's crackdown on agitating officers.
Bollywood's Munna Bhai would be the Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow for the poll expected in May this year.
But there are still uncertainities that surround his prospects of actually contesting the Lok Sabha polls, because Sanjay Dutt is out on bail after being sentenced to six years rigorous imprisionment by a TADA court for being in illegal possession of arms including an AK-56 automatic rifle and point 9 mm pistol.
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee won the Nandigram by-election by steering the CPM and other left parties, while the young Congress candidate Masum Benajir Noor retained her mother’s, late Rubi Noor’s seat at Sujapur (Malda). The results of these elections were declared on Friday.
In these two by-elections, both the Trinamool Congress and the Congress fought jointly on a common understanding in order to overcome the CPM and other left parties and they were successful in their project.
Dhaka - Facing an embarrassing defeat in the late December elections, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former premier Khaleda Zia decided Friday to revitalise the party and all its fronts to face the ruling Awami League in and outside parliament.
"We will dissolve all the party committees and fronts to reconstitute them through democratic process up to the grassroots level," said Zia, head of the BNP which won only
30 of 299 parliamentary seats in the December 29 polls.
Dhaka - Facing an embarrassing defeat in the late December elections, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former premier Khaleda Zia decided Friday to revitalise the party and all its fronts to face the ruling Awami League in and outside parliament.
"We will dissolve all the party committees and fronts to reconstitute them through democratic process up to the grassroots level," said Zia, head of the BNP which won only
30 of 299 parliamentary seats in the December 29 polls.
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama named former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the CIA and nominated a retired Navy admiral to oversee the entire intelligence community.
Dennis Blair, the chief of US Pacific Command from 1999 to 2002, will become the director of national intelligence, a so-called czar for coordinating the espionage activities and analyses of the nation's 16 intelligence organizations.
The Oil Sectors Officers Association (OSOA) has announced to call off strike with immediate effect following threats of stern action against striking officers of oil sector companies by Union Government. 
Bollywood's Munna Bhai would be the Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow for the poll expected in May this year. 
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee won the Nandigram by-election by steering the CPM and other left parties, while the young Congress candidate Masum Benajir Noor retained her mother’s, late Rubi Noor’s seat at Sujapur (Malda). The results of these elections were declared on Friday.
Dhaka - Facing an embarrassing defeat in the late December elections, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former premier Khaleda Zia decided Friday to revitalise the party and all its fronts to face the ruling Awami League in and outside parliament.
Dhaka - Facing an embarrassing defeat in the late December elections, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former premier Khaleda Zia decided Friday to revitalise the party and all its fronts to face the ruling Awami League in and outside parliament.
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama named former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the CIA and nominated a retired Navy admiral to oversee the entire intelligence community.
