'The BJP is trying to change this mantra.' Photograph: ANI Photo On December 30, freedom fighter Dr G G Parikh, who was jailed during the 1942 Quit India movement and again during the Emergency,......
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Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......
ITC. Tobacco, right? Er, right and wrong.Wrong, because it's also been into hotels for three decades (ah yes, you say), but over the last few years, and pretty much under your nose, it's become a......
'The censor board asked me for some strange cuts.''Otherwise, they would have given me an 'A' certificate.''One cut was where Girish Karnad was explaining artificial insemination in cattle.''These......