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Rs. 2,500 cr. Central grant for 14 States
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8.A Rs. 2,500 crore package in the form of a cent per cent grant from the Centre would soon be available to 14 identified States, apart from Orissa and Bihar which are to receive special packages. These funds are for the ...
Rs. 8,000 cr. package to revamp coop. banks
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8. The Central Government has worked out a package of Rs. 8000 crore for financial restructuring of cooperative banks that will be issued through bonds to States with the rider that they would have to introduce reforms in the ...
Poll reforms: Cong. opposition `limited'
NEW DELHI, AUG 8. The Congress Party today made it clear that it was in favour of "full compliance'' with the observations of the Supreme Court that all candidates should declare their assets and liabilities on a sworn affidavit as well as give ...
Centre's peace initiative in north-east not `tactical': Advani
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8. The Centre will address the core issues in the northeast with all sincerity, the Deputy Prime Minister, L. K. Advani, has said. Addressing the Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting of the Home Ministry, he allayed the ...
Cong. fine-tunes strategy for poll
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8. The Congress has started to fine-tune its strategy for the Vice-Presidential poll next Monday even as the BJP-led NDA Government has been working on a plan to ensure that all the constituents and parties which pledged to ...
Police search Vaiko's house
CHENNAICHENNAI, AUG. 8.AUG. 8.The `Q' branch of the Tamil Nadu police today searched the MDMK headquarters here, residences of the party general secretary, Vaiko, in the city and in Kalingapatti, and that of the eight other party functionaries ...
Exit policy for defence services being framed
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8.For the first time in the history of the defence services, an exit policy is being worked out for the officers of the Army, Air Force and Navy as part of a comprehensive strategy to bring down the average age of commanding ...
`Sri Lanka concerned over nuclearisation'
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8.The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Tyronne Fernando, said today that India's relations with Pakistan were a bilateral matter for the two countries, but said as a small country of 20 million Sri Lanka was very concerned at the ...
Saifuddin Soz joins Cong.
NEW DELHI, AUG. 8.After parting ways with the National Conference three years ago, the former Union Minister, Saifuddin Soz, today joined the Congress, saying that it was the only party with the wherewithal to confront "parochial and communal ...
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