Rlys to spend Rs 8,000 crore on upgradation
New Delhi: The Railways is planning to spend around Rs 8,000 crore on upgrading its high density rail network covering the Golden Quadrilateral and its diagonals.
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60 per cent votes cast in Gujarat polls
Ahmnedabad: An estimated 60 per cent of the 3.32-crore voters on Thursday exercised their franchise in one of the fiercely contested Assembly elections in Gujarat held amidst tight security, nine months after the Godhra carnage and subsequent communal violence and considered to be a watershed in the country’s politics.
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Excise duty on cigarettes used for tests: SC
New Delhi: In a major judgment affecting the Rs 12,000 crore cigarette industry, the Supreme Court has ruled that any stick of cigarette manufactured by a company, even if used for testing purposes in the laboratory within its own factory premises, is liable to excise duty.
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LCA enters advanced testing stage
New Delhi: The indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft is in an advanced stage of flight testing, said Union defence minister George Fernandes. He added that forty one flight tests had been successfully conducted on two technology demonstrators of LCA.
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