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Pawar’s meeting with PM raises speculations over sugar price issue

by ANI January 27, 2010 India News

New Delhi, Jan. 27 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who has been in the line of fire for the skyrocketing prices of food, sugar and other commodities, held a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday.
Sources said Pawar as well owners of large sugar mills met Prime Minister over the escalating sugar prices.
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Mayawati blames central government for price rise

by Indo-Asian News Service January 14, 2010 India News

Lashing out at Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar for the recent rise in food prices, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Thursday said wrong policies of the central government had helped “blackmarketeers and hoarders”.
“The government is working under pressure of black-marketeers. Prices are rising due to the anti-poor policies of the central government,” Mayawati told reporters here.
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Food prices will come down in 8-10 days: Pawar

by Indo-Asian News Service January 13, 2010 India News

The soaring prices of essential commodities will start coming down in 8-10 days, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said Wednesday, adding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had called a meeting of the chief ministers here Jan 27 to discuss the issue.
“With the measures we have taken, the prices of essential commodities are expected to start coming [...]

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Pawar, Banerjee and Maran objects Chidambaram’s decision over Telangana

by Sunita Bothra December 16, 2009 India News

New Delhi: The Telangana issue in Andhra Pradesh seems to be just inviting more and more trouble.

Allies like Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee and Dayanidhi Maran took strong objection to them not even being consulted before Home Minister P Chidambaram announced the initiation of the process of creation of a separate Telangana.
The agenda during Tuesday’s Cabinet [...]

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Pawar says sugar mills may start crushing this week

by ANI November 10, 2009 India News

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said that sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh are expected to resolve their price row with farmers, and are likely to begin cane crushing this week.
Cane growers in India’’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, which accounts for half of the country’’s cane output, have intensified their stir to demand higher [...]

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Pawar rules out merger of NCP with Congress

by ANI August 19, 2009 India News

Ahead of the assembly elections in Maharashtra, Union Agricultural Minister and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of merger with the Congress Party.
Pawar also termed the statements by some Congress leaders on the issue as cheap publicity.
“I can”t understand why these days they are raising questions about [...]

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Rs 1,000 crore-diesel subsidy to paddy growers: Pawar

by ANI July 31, 2009 India News

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said that the government will provide Rs 1,000-crore subsidy on diesel to paddy farmers for irrigation during the on-going Kharif season in order to provide relief to growers in times of erratic monsoon.
“One major decision which the government has taken in yesterday’s Cabinet meeting is to extend a budgetary [...]

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Govt. extends duty free import of white and raw sugar: Pawar

by ANI July 31, 2009 India News

Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday said that the Government has extended its scheme to allow duty-free raw sugar imports until March and white sugar imports up to November.
Pawar said the government had also allowed private firms and more state-run firms, which he did not name, to import whites at zero duty.
He added [...]

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Pawar says law will take its own course in Patil arrest case

by ANI June 8, 2009 India News

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said the “law will take its own course” in the case of the murder of Maharashtra Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar, in which his party MP Padamsinh Patil was arrested by the CBI.
“I do not want to influence the inquiry process in any way by making a [...]

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