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Seeking to address the coal shortage affecting the power and steel sectors, government has announced a slew of measures for enhancing its availability in the Budget, a development welcomed by Coal India Ltd. “We welcome the removal of import duty on coal,” Coal India (CIL) Chairman and Managing Director...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday assured Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa that the State government would be informed about the visits of Sri Lankan VIPs and other dignitaries in advance. “I am asking our authorities to bear your views in mind when they handle such visits in future...
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, who has earned his party’s wrath for hiking passenger fares in the Railway Budget, was today asked to quit his post by the party but he insists that Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee should make the demand in writing. Trinamool Congress chief whip Kalyan Banerjee, who...
MUMBAI: Indian films have won laurels, been applauded at the box office and are watched theatrically, on television and many other available mediums. What then is the reason that they have failed to make it to the Oscars? In fact, Indian cinema can make an impact internationally since many...
NEW DELHI: The Government today placed “admission to entertainment or access to amusement services” in the Negative List – a new List for which there will be no service tax. Advertisements broadcast by television or radio, however, will be excluded from the Negative List. What could hurt is the...
MUMBAI: Multi Screen Media’s (formerly Sony Entertainment Television) vision of having a sports channel in its portfolio is close to fructification as the channel has named its soon-to-be launched channel as Six, say sources. Sources also say that Nitesh Kripalani is tipped to be the business head of the...
MUMBAI: Zindagi Tere Naam, almost a decade old film, has finally been released. Its release just helps close the chapter and forget about it since even if it is a 10-year-old project, it is at least 30 year-old in its story and treatment. Producer: Shree Sai Pictures. Director: Ashuu...
By Harihar Swarup Tension has been brewing between Mamata Banerjee and Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi for quite sometime. Trivedi sensed it and also came to know of her plan to withdraw him from the Union Ministry. Trivedi did not want to be virtually dismissed as the Railway Minister. If...
By Barun Das Gupta KOLKATA: The surprising element in the Manipur Assembly election outcome is not that the Congress has won for the third consecutive time because the Congress victory was a foregone conclusion, the surprise is that the Trinamool Congress, taking part in the elections for the first...
The Budget tried to build on the incentives to the limping power sector granted by the Prime Minister recently. It cut customs duty on thermal fuel for power companies and made financing easier. Calling it a sector which has been under stress, Pranab Mukherjee made a slew of announcements,...