assurance last week about penalising short distance travellers on long distance trains. This is surely a matter of arriving at a comprehensive transport policy and cannot be taken care of by what...
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the Janata Dal legislature party whose membership includes a fair sprinkling of men with highly dubious antecedents. The CPI went so far as to consider joining a ministry whose lack of integrity may...
wealth tax and the gift tax again the base is quite different; for the former it is the net wealth of an assessee whereas for the latter it is the transfer by gift that constitutes the base of...
during the same period in 1988-89. The AICCF chiefs case for raising the prices to 20 per cent above the support levels rests apparently on the prices (inclusive of the advance bonus of Rs 160 per...
beaten up women demonstrators, including members of the same communist parties which are taking up their cause today. They have been faithfully carrying out all the orders of their superiors in...
made out by the stock exchange community, but there is little doubt that a buoyant secondary market does greatly facilitate the raising of funds from the capital market if only because it makes new...
robust confidence at the beginning of the year with equity price indices touching altogether new highs or moving very close to their previous best marks. The prevailing mood is entirely different;...
not enjoy the constitutional sanction for the role till the Brezhnev constitution enacted in 1977. It may sound somewhat paradoxical but the reality is that during the long years of Stalin's rule!...
a much larger export quota to the CCI is a welcome recognition of the role the central organisation can play in the marketing of cotton and helping to maintain prices at a level which the centre...
and called for postponement of construction. Prior to that Vajpayee and Jaswant Singh of BJP made a similar appeal 'for the national good'. Advani on the other hand mollified a delegation of angry...
of such slogans is further reinforced by the VHP and RSS propaganda that West Bengal is being swamped by the influx of Muslims from Bangladesh. It is true that the number of illegal entrants from...
the minimum export prices (MEP) have been reduced by 10 cents a kg to bring them in line with the prevailing international prices which have registered a sizeable decline over the past few weeks...
In December, a motion in the Congress of Peoples Deputies questioning the party's monopoly of power was defeated, but only narrowly. Local communist parties have been aligning themselves with the...
in de facto control of Panama. And as for protecting American lives, the invasion itself claimed the lives of 23 American soldiers, besides those of hundreds of Panamanian soldiers and civilians...
