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GST bill delayed, peeling away govt's reformist face

Negative list is no plus for GST
A proposal to introduce a list of categories to be exempted from the service tax is likely to be announced in the upcoming Budget, but it may fail to give a push to the long-pending Goods and Services Tax (GST) system. While allowing the Centre to come out with a negative list for services, the states - which are opposing the GST in the current form - made it clear that the Union government not interfere

Agriculture, manufacturing to give small push to GDP

Advance estimates pegged the country’s economic growth at 6.9 per cent for the current fiscal, but IIP data and agriculture production numbers suggest the chance of a marginal improvement

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Dhumal seeks work on pending rail projects
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Sunday asked the railways to start the construction of a rail line in the state that the Prime Minister's Office had cleared in 2007.

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Mulayam will bring back 'gunda raj': Mayawati

Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Saturday said here that 'gunda and mafia raj' would return to the state if the Mulayam Singh

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Nitish blames Centre for backwardness of Bihar

Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday blamed successive Central governments for "neglecting" Bihar which slid into morass of economic backwardness for the better parts of the decades since

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24-hr drinking allowed by Blair's govt was wrong, says Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell, the right-hand man of Tony Blair, has admitted that the former Prime Minister's government's decision to roll out 24-hour drinking was a mistake that has fuelled a frightening

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