Chidambaram's Budget speech.

The 2005-06 Survey tabled in Parliament said the Indian industry needed to be unburdened from high level of taxes and distortive exemptions that provided perverse incentives.

Brand India should have more ambassadors. They should be people and opinion makers like the CEOs of top companies.

Delhi-based Punj Llyod Ltd was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange on Friday at a premium of more than 50 per cent.

PM pitches for 10% growth

Worried parents and wife pray for Kutty's early return

Golden Quadrilateral to now cost Rs 35,000 crore.\n\n

The Beijing Olympics in 2008 will generate 1.8 million new jobs in the host city, says the Beijing Municipal statistics Bureau.

Officials estimated at least 90 per cent of surrounding Jefferson County residents had heeded warnings that a storm surge could submerge swaths of the low-lying county - including the seawall-and-levee-protected city of Port Arthur, near Sabine Pass.

The new age crematorium has such facilities as Internet linkage, modern furnaces and air-conditioned halls.

Death toll in Maha reaches 696

Readers respond to Terrible Tuesday.

Readers share their stories about the rains in Mumbai and their aftermath.

The 60-metre-long bridge on river Irang is 70 km from Imphal and located between Khongsang and Noney in Naga-dominated Tamenglong district.

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After consolidating its position in India since it opened its first store in 1996, McDonald's India is all set to make net profit this year and has lined up investments to the tune of Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) for expansion in new cities.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday announced in the Budget for 2005-06 that the Planning Commission has drawn up Tsunami relief programme costing Rs 10,260 crore (Rs 102.6 billion).

Thirty-three are still missing, while 468 were rescued across the state, they added.

"One BRO personnel from the team is still missing," the sources added.

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