The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 30, 2009

GOVERNMENT

POLITICS: Symbol allotment: SC snubs Election Commission
New Delhi: Even as the election process is under way, the Election Commission got an unpleasant surprise from the Supreme Court in two related cases concerning allotment of symbols to political parties. The first was on March ...

POLITICS: All eyes will be on Maoist-affected districts, North Bengal
Kolkata: As 14 of the 42 constituencies of West Bengal go to the polls for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections in the State on Thursday, all eyes will be on the three Maoist-affected districts of Purulia, Bankura, ...

POLITICS: Afghanistan at the crossroads
Located at the crossroads of Central, West and South Asia, the people of Afghanistan have been victims of great power rivalry and foreign occupation ever since the state was founded by Ahmed Shah Durrani in 1747. External powers ranging from ...

POLITICS: Gujarat may spring surprises
Gandhinagar: As election campaign for the single-phase voting on April 30 for all the 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat drew to a close on Tuesday, both the principal political rivals — the ruling BJP and the ...

EXIM POLICY: ‘New foreign trade policy may focus on sprucing up services exports’
New Delhi, April 29 With the country’s merchandise exports getting mired in the world economic slowdown rather distinctly, the focus on the new foreign trade policy (FTP) for the five-year period (2009-14) to be unveiled by the ...

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