The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 19, 2009

GOVERNMENT

POLICY: Orange Realty’s India subsidiary plan approved
New Delhi, March 18 The Government today allowed Orange Realty to set up a wholly owned subsidiary in India. The company has already received Rs 2,051 crore from IREO Investment Holding III, a Mauritius-based fund focused on setting up ...

AGRICULTURAL POLICY: Zero duty on pulses to continue for another year
Trade bitter over extension of ban on exports. New Delhi, March 18 The Centre, on Wednesday, extended the imports of pulses at zero Customs duty by one more year, while extending the ban on their exports, barring chickpeas (or Kabuli chana) for ...

POLITICS: Will it be ‘Untied’ Progressive Alliance?
After the body blow dealt on the BJP by Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal, now the Congress gets ...

POLITICS: Parties may feel diamond’s cutting edge
The global economic recession is set to make its impact on the Indian elections. When voters cast their ballot to elect their Members of Parliament for Gujarat, one of the issues that will influence them will be the crisis in the ...

POLITICS: The importance of being PMK
Chennai, March 18 Will he, won’t he? This is the question for whose answer the two leading political parties in Tamil Nadu — the ruling DMK, which is also part of the UPA at the Centre, and the Opposition AIADMK — are ...

POLITICS: Maharashtra Govt under fire on law and order situation
Mumbai, March 18 Maharashtra Government came under fire from opposition members in the legislative Assembly on Wednesday, over handling of the law and order situation in the ...

POLITICS: A changed Congress?
Thiruvananthapuram, March 18 People may wonder: On the eve of the election, when the ruling Left Front in Kerala is creating such a rumpus over seat sharing, why is the Opposition camp in Kerala so quiet? Where have all the Congress leaders ...

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