From fixed licence fee to revenue-sharing
The provisions of the New Telecom Policy 1999 allowing basic and cellular telecom operators to move from a fixed license fee regime to a revenue-sharing regime was challenged in a writ petition filed by the Delhi Science Forum in the Delhi high court on July 28.

Funding R&D
Will enough effort be made to ensure the ploughback of cess funds into the private sector? Also consider: A Rs 200 crore corpus to fight tropical diseases is far from sufficient; in the developed countries it costs $500-700 million to research a single drug.

Imports and levy of customs duty
what is relevant is the day on which the bill of entry in respect of the goods is presented and in the case of goods which are warehoused and the relevant date on which the goods

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