HM packs Lancer with lavish add-ons, hikes rate by Rs 7000
Customers continue to be the ultimate beneficiaries of the `car wars' in the Indian automobile industry. Apart from having a proliferation of models to choose from, they are being wooed with more and more features.

Capital gains exemptions under Finance Bill 2000
Several changes have been suggested by the Finance Bill, 2000 in respect of the provisions regarding taxation of capital gains under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

Life gets second Time unlucky; special editions provide reason to breathe
Life is dead. Long live Time. In a move that didn't surprise anyone in the magazine community, Time Warner Inc.'s Time Inc. publishing division said it would close down its venerable Life magazine for the second time.


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