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Cell
cos slash STD rates to Rs 2.99
New Delhi: Over10 million mobile subscribers have
cause for cheer. As expected, the cellular operators have
announced a steep cut in national long-distance tariffs
to a flat rate of Rs 2.99 per minute, anytime, anywhere
for all mobile-to-mobile calls of 50 km and above.
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Ministry
to ensure sops for textiles
New Delhi: THE Union Textile Minister, Mr Kashiram
Rana, has said that his Ministry would ensure that the
textile industry, possessing the twin advantages of generating
higher employment and earning enhanced foreign exchange
through focused and sustained measures on the export front,
would be backed with supportive policy measures including
fiscal concessions and subsidies.
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Cement
companies post big rise in Dec dispatches as prices decline
Mumbai: Key cement companies reported strong growth
in shipments in December as falling prices fuelled demand.
Gujarat Ambuja Cements, which commissioned its two-million
tonne greenfield unit at Chandrapur in Maharashtra last
year, said its shipments surged 35% to 8.4 lakh tonnes
in December versus 6.3 lakh tonnes in the same period
last year.
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Rally
against globalisation
Hyderabad: The People's Movements Encounters at
the Asian Social Forum (PMEASF), a separate platform of
social movements and trade unions of various sectors including
landless agricultural workers, small farmers, dalits,
adivasis, construction workers and urban poor, plans to
address the negative implications of liberalisation and
globalisation at the ongoing meeting of the Asian Social
Forum (ASF) here.
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UTI
Investor Roped In To Issue PAN Cards
New Delhi: Tax department, which has decided to
outsource services for allotment of Permanent Account
Number (PAN) cards to over 2.5 crore income tax assesses,
will rope in UTI Investor Service Limited for the purpose.
Concerned
over the flak it received from assessees regarding defective
and delayed issue of PAN cards, the finance ministry has
already sent to the UTI a letter of intent (LoI) and a
memorandum of understanding was to be signed soon in this
regard.
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