"Fuel prices are increasing again and again. All are being badly affected: agriculture, transport and common people are being forced to bear burden," Mamata tweeted.
The announcement was made by opposition leader Khursheed Shah at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.
In a tragic incident, an eight-year-old girl died and six others were injured when a cabin of a giant wheel crashed in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur town on Sunday night, police said.
The key Indian equity indices traded in the positive territory on Monday afternoon due to the fall in global crude oil prices.
A Keralite who travelled to Goa by train on Monday, has been quarantined at an isolation ward of a leading hospital here after developing symptoms similar to those affected by the deadly Nipah virus.
The US states of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi have declared an emergency ahead of subtropical storm Alberto expected to make landfall on Monday, authorities said.
Close to 25 per cent polling was registered in Uttar Pradesh's Kairana parliamentary and Noorpur assembly seats on Monday, a poll official said.
With serious malfunctioning in the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) electronic voting machines (EVMs), polling was cancelled in at least 35 polling stations in the Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha bye-elections on Monday.
The body of a 24-year-old youth was found on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, police said.
Even as the polling for the high-stakes by-elections to Kairana and Noorpur assembly constituencies is underway, the opposition has raised concerns about the reported malfunctioning of voting machines in some areas.
