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7-point strategy to boost export; interest subsidy scheme extended

Updated: Tuesday at 12:50 hrs (IST)
The government on Tuesday unveiled 7-point strategy to boost exports which include extension of interest subsidy scheme by one year till March 31, 2013.....   | Read..
 

Trinamul bags three civic bodies but fails at Haldia

Updated: Tuesday at 14:10 hrs (IST)
The Trinamul Congress on Tuesday won the elections to three civic bodies and was leading in another while Congress and Left Front major CPI (M) bagged one each in West Be...   | Read..
 

Monsoon hits Kerala, may progress further

Updated: Tuesday at 16:26 hrs (IST)
The south-west monsoon, the key to the agriculture driven Indian economy, brought showers to Kerala and much-needed relief to farmers on Tuesday....   | Read..
 

SEZs hit by MAT, govt mulls revamp

Updated: Tuesday at 14:56 hrs (IST)
The government will come out with new guidelines to revive export hubs, special economic zones (SEZs), which have lost sheen after imposition of certain levies and proposal t...   | Read..
 

Karuna backs Advani's view on collegium for appointing ECs, CAG

Updated: Tuesday at 19:24 hrs (IST)
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M Karunanidhi appeared to back Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani’s suggestion for a collegium to appoint Election Com...   | Read..
 

Jagan Reddy case: CBI summons Andhra minister to explain orders for cement firms

Updated: Tuesday at 15:30 hrs (IST)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah to appear before it on June 7 in connection with the...   | Read..
 

VK scents a Chinese tunnel

China is opening its narrow border with Afghanistan with roads and probably a tunnel under the Pamir ranges skirting Jammu and Kashmir with strategic implications for India, ...   | Read..
 

Chorus rises in Congress against govt

A deep sense of disquiet manifested itself at the Congress Working Committee meeting today, although the UPA government defended its report card and Sonia Gandhi describe...   | Read..
 

Sachin sets rules of the new game

When a member of a globally exclusive club of One joins a national club of close to 800, he arrives entitled to hold his own. Sachin Tendulkar, who has travelled where no cri...   | Read..
 

4 poll officials felled by heat

The stifling heat that has had Jharkhand in its grip for more than a month now dealt its deadliest blow today when four polling personnel supervising panchayat by-elections i...   | Read..
 

Where every day is Green Day

Call it reinventing the wheel. But sometimes, doing what is tried and tested is enough for a green innovation. ...   | Read..
 

Copter in crisis landing

An Mi-17 helicopter — borrowed from IAF for anti-Maoist operations in Palamau, Latehar and Garhwa — had to make an emergency landing at Chiyanki aerodrome, 6...   | Read..
 

Centre rules out ‘frontier state’

The Centre today ruled out granting a Frontier Nagaland state to the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation but offered an economic package for speedy development of th...   | Read..
 
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Manmohan Singh
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