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India Faring Better Than the West on Fuel Prices, Says Hardeep Puri at News18 Delhi Town Hall
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India Faring Better Than the West on Fuel Prices, Says Hardeep Puri at News18 Delhi Town Hall

Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri at CNN-News18’s Delhi Town Hall on July 17, 2023.Speaking at CNN-News18’s Delhi Town Hall, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri took a veiled dig at the opposition parties for spreading “false narrative” on inflationUnion Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday denied that the government is facing criticism over rising fuel prices and took a veiled dig at the opposition parties for spreading “false narrative” on inflation. Speaking at CNN-News18’s Delhi Town Hall, Puri added that India was “faring better” than the Western world and immediate neighbours on fuel prices.“There is a false narrative being propagated on inflation. We have to see what is happening globally. Indi...
Opposition parties resolve to stay united
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Opposition parties resolve to stay united

Emerging from their four-hour ice-breaking meeting in Patna on Friday evening, 32 leaders from 15 political parties kick-started their collaboration for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, resolving to unitedly fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a spirit of accommodating mutual interests. A brief spat, which an opposition leader dubbed a “misunderstanding” that lasted barely seven minutes, between Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, however, threatened to unsettle unity efforts. Kejriwal insisted the Congress join his party to publicly denounce the Centre's ordinance on Delhi bureaucrats at the Patna meeting. He later skipped the joint press conference of the leaders and his party issued a stinging statement against the Congres...