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More relief in taxes
NEW DELHI, July 17 — The Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, today yielded further on the original Budget proposals for the current financial year and withdrew the excise duty imposed on several items. The new concessions will cost the government Rs 263 crore...

Reservation Bill: Women activists hold up traffic
NEW DELHI, July 17 — Vowing to continue their struggle for 33 per cent reservation, hundreds of women activists held a "rasta roko’’ and "dharna’’ outside Parliament House at noon and demanded that the government introduced the women’s reservation Bill in its present undiluted form... 		Line
Defection: EC seeks power to disqualify MPs
NEW DELHI, July 17 — In a decision of significant political importance, the Election Commission today demanded that the power to disqualify MPs and MLAs under anti-defection law, now with the Speaker, should be given to it and revoked its stand in support of a statutory backing to the model code of conduct...

Police picked up Khalra case eyewitness
AMRITSAR, July 17 — The SSP, Mr Paramjit Singh, has categorically stated that Rajiv Randhawa, an eyewitness in the Khalra case, has been picked up by the police...
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Centre advises ban on play
NEW DELHI, July 17 — The Centre has advised the Maharashtra Government to prevent the staging of a controversial Marathi play in the state which attempts to eulogise Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi...
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NFL 'spent lavishly' on Barnala's visit
BATHINDA, July 17 — National Fertilizer Limited (NFL) which is facing financial crises following the Rs 133 crore urea import scam, has been left poorer by the management of the local plant when it spent lakhs of rupees on the visit of the Union Chemical and Fertilisers Minister, Mr Surjeet Singh Barnala on June 30...

Discordant note by Jaya
CHENNAI, July 17 — The All-India Anna DMK (AIADMK), a major constituent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government at the Centre, today struck a discordant note demanding reservation for backward classes and minorities within the 33 per cent reservation for women in the women’s quota Bill...
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