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 | | January 13: Fishermen have banned the vice-president of the State Fisheries, Damodar Tandel, from entering Palghar and adjoining areas after he asked them to call off their agitation. |
 | | National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) members from Palghar, Dahanu, Vasai and other parts of the Thane coast are observing a cyclic fast in front of the tehsildar's office at Palghar to protest against the diesel price hike, increasing marine pollution due to oil spills, invasion by foreign trawlers, and other issues. |
 | | Fisherman Narendra Patil, alleged that Tandel was in Palghar on Thursday (when the strike started), but when he saw the fishermen agitating, he hid in the tehsildar's office and soon made it to the Palghar railway station to escape to his Colaba residence. |
| www.netguruindia.com /news/NewsToFile.asp?id=/news/Jan01/14/MUM8.html (296 words) |
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