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Sorry. Our party spokesman has joined the other party.
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by
Sandeep Joshi
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Government
cuts duties on steel products
New Delhi, February 27
To provide respite to economy from
spiralling steel prices, the government today decided on major cuts in
excise and custom duties and export incentives even as major producers
including SAIL and Essar are understood to have agreed on slashing
prices on some steel products by up to Rs 2000 a tonne.
Recruitment ban on in Punjab
Chandigarh, February 27
In less than a month after the state of Punjab issued statements regarding lifting of ban on new recruitments, the government today informed a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court that final decision was yet to be taken by the council of ministers.
Salwan
likely to be PTU Vice-Chancellor
 Chandigarh,
February 27
Prof S.K. Salwan is likely to be
new Vice-Chancellor of Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. A Senior
Adviser at the PTU, he succeeds Prof Y.S. Rajan, who had quit over
politico-bureaucratic “pressures and disturbances’’ in the
academics.
Japan’s
cult ex-guru sentenced to death
Tokyo, February 27
 Former
doomsday cult guru Shoko Asahara was convicted and sentenced to death
for masterminding the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway
and a string of other crimes that killed 27 people.
Former leader of the Aum shinrikyo cult Shoko Asahara is seen shortly after being arrested in Kamikuishiki town in this file photo.
— Reuters photo
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Mystery
shrouds landing of hot air balloon in Pak
Amritsar, February 27
Mystery shrouds the landing of a
hot air balloon on the Pakistan side, a few metres away from the
international border. A sentry of the Fatehpur border post under Majitha
police district spotted the flying balloon around sun-set yesterday. The
BSF authorities immediately informed the Punjab Police.
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