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The Second Five-Year Plan, which was submitted to Parliament on Tuesday morning, aims at securing a 25 per cent increase in the national income and a rapid industrialisation of the country accompanied by large expansion of

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We have a hung Parliament of Congress is well short of a majority and will fall even short after the elections to 13 counter mended seats of which it may win no more than three.

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Central public sector undertakings (PSUs) performed badly in 1990-91 with their net profit declining sharply by 37.28 per cent compared with the previous year. According to the 1990-91 annual report of the department of public enterprises, the 189 central public enterprises earned a net profit of Rs. 2,730.27 crore during 1990-91 against the net profit Rs. 3,748 crore in

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HIKE COMPENSATED:A senior manager of a Delhi-based PFY producer says that PFY prices have gone up by more than Rs. 20 per kg since July this year.According to him:"This increase compensates for the excise hike of Rs. 18 per kg effected in December 1990.At that time we were able to pass on just Rs. 8 out of the Rs. 18 to consumers".The manager also candidly admits that PFY

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Prof Shreekanth Gupta discusses the comical state of dead telephones across the country, with poor state services in the telecom industry. He also mentions the OYT, or Own Your Telephone scheme, under MTNL and the difficulty of having to grapple with poor services. Read the complete transcript below: There used to be a Communication’s Minister in Mrs Indira Gandhi’s Cabinet,

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Prof Shreekanth Gupta discusses the comical state of dead telephones across the country, with poor state services in the telecom industry. He also mentions the OYT, or Own Your Telephone scheme, under MTNL and the difficulty of having to grapple with poor services. Read the complete transcript below: There used to be a Communication’s Minister in Mrs Indira Gandhi’s Cabinet,

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New Delhi seems to be the favoured child of the Central Government.It has the best of every amenity and the contrast with Old Delhi becomes more noticeable every day.Now,it appears, New Delhi is to be further favoured. It is proposed that it should be Centrally administered while the rest of the Delhi is to be governed by a corporation. It is said that the Capital needs