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Better tax-GDP ratio, more outlays
Subsidy bill reaching a point where it may become unsustainable: Chidambaram
Statement today on Baalu issue
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday assured the Rajya Sabha that it would make a statement on Wednesday in response to persistent demands that it clarify its position on the T.R. Baalu issue. Opposition ...
New Income Tax Code soon
NEW DELHI:The Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, on Tuesday announced that the government would soon come out with a new Income Tax Code to streamline the taxation structure and reduce the plethora of exemptions given to various segments ...
Five States make a mark in procurement
NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday was particularly appreciative of five States — three of them Opposition-ruled — for procurement of wheat and rice. The five States which came in for a special ...
Left Front constituents are not united at all levels: Basu
KOLKATA: Even as the CPI(M) Polit Bureau appealed to all Left parties here on Tuesday to “unitedly rebuff the anti-Left mahajot [grand alliance]” in next month’s panchayat elections in West Bengal, veteran Marxist leader ...
“Sonia knows nothing about West Bengal”
KOLKATA: Marxist leader Jyoti Basu said here on Tuesday there was no reason to give importance to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s remarks during her visit to the State on Monday. Coming out of a Polit Bureau ...
We will step up struggle against price rise: Karat
“Government cannot afford to be callous to people’s sufferings”
“FDI in retail sector will not be allowed”
NEW DELHI: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday no foreign direct investment (FDI) would be allowed in the retail sector and that the government was open to reviewing the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Act if the need ...
Panel: Constitution amendment the only way to end impasse
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Committee on Law and Justice has urged the Centre to amend the Constitution to provide for establishment of regional Benches of the Supreme Court. In its 26th report submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, the ...
“Constitution amendment only way to end impasse”
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Committee on Law and Justice has urged the Centre to amend the Constitution to provide for establishment of regional Benches of the Supreme Court. In its 26th report submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, the ...
‘No passport missing from Dubai Consulate-General’
The Telegraph newspaper based in Kolkata, in its issues of April 28 and 29, 2008, has carried reports in which certain baseless and scurrilous allegations were made against the Indian Consulate in Dubai. The reports have deliberately and ...
All ten satellites ‘fit as a fiddle’
CHENNAI: The 10 satellites put in orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) on Monday are “fit as a fiddle,” a senior scientist of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Tuesday. India created ...
Baalu dismisses demand for his resignation
New Delhi: Under intense Opposition attack, Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu on Tuesday dismissed the demand for his resignation, terming his detractors as those opposed to the Sethu Samudram project and the ...
Judges voice concern over fake encounters
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern over the killing of innocent people in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, branding them terrorists. “Just for getting a gallantry award, innocent people in Jammu and ...
Army: no ‘widespread’ abuse in Congo
NEW DELHI: Senior army officials here have cited a United Nations (U.N.) official to slam allegations of widespread abuse by Indian troops deployed on peacekeeping duty in Congo. They admitted to a solitary instance of a middle-level officer ...
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