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Keeping
step with Asia |
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While the Union finance minister
is expected to restructure customs duties in the forthcoming
budget, it remains to be seen what he will do with duty rates. |
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Clarion
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Telephone subscribers are celebrating.
If basic operators have honeycombed to slash Subscriber Trunk
Dialling rates by 50 per cent effective January 26, the state-owned
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has gone a step further by announcing
that STD rates will be pruned by as much as 62 per cent, beginning
January 14. |
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M
G Ranade — the original swadeshi |
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Mahadev Govind Ranade, whose
death centenary is being observed this year, is rightly looked
upon as the “father of Indian economics”. |
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SOUTH
BLOCK: Inder Malhotra
The Chinese-Pakistan romance |
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In Kathmandu the Saarc summit
is grinding on, caught in the coils of the mounting tension
between India and Pakistan, the subject uppermost in the minds
of those present at this forum. |
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EAVESDROPPER:
Sinha for war? |
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A little bird tells
us that Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha spoke strongly
in favour of military action against Pakistan in a recent meeting
of the council of ministers. |
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