The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, November 19, 2008

GOVERNMENT

POLICY: ‘Cut prices, not production, to tackle demand slowdown’
Govt levies import duty on steel products, crude soyabean oil. New Delhi, Nov. 18 Imports of pig iron and certain specified iron and steel items such as semi-finished products, flat and long products would now become dearer. The Government on ...

POLICY: Plan panel to identify projects to raise public expenditure
Hopes to come out with additional expenditure package soon. The Planning Commission is working on identifying existing public work programmes that could be stepped up during the course of the current fiscal, as part of the fiscal measure to ...

E-GOVERNANCE: IIM-A workshop on e-governance projects from today
Ahmedabad, Nov. 18 The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad will conduct a two-day workshop on the impact of e-governance projects in collaboration with Department of Information Technology on November 19 ...

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