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Aug 17 2009, Shiv

Chickens Come Home to Roost! Can we call it poetic justice? Having fought tooth and nail at Singur and having blocked land acquisition bill, now Ms Banerjee has to take the help of the same land acquisition act to take over fertile land for railways..

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Commuters travel on a local train in Mumbai, India, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. Indian Railway Minister Lalu Prasad announced an across-the-board two percent cut in the fares of the ordinary and AC class in the Interim Railway Budget for 2009-10, according to.