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PM asks Deora to take action against striking employees
With the country facing acute fuel shortage because of the strike by oil PSU officers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asked Petroleum Minister Murali Deora to take firm action to deal with the crisis.

"The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Secretary have been instructed by the Prime Minister to take firm action," Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters after a meeting of the Cabinet, which was briefed on the situation on Friday morning.

Chidambaram, who has been asked by the Prime Minister to head a committe...

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