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Missing decimal point sends six Central ministries into a tizzy
What's in a number? Quite a lot, it seems. Just ask the secretaries of half-a-dozen major Central ministries. Last month, when the Prime Minister's Office directed the Ministries of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Heavy Industry, Coal, Steel, Fertilisers and Food & Civil Supplies to earmark cargo for inland water transport, it goofed up on a decimal point. The result: the secretaries got an impossible target.
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SC asks Maharashtra state to enact model law on Rent
The Supreme Court yesterday asked the Maharashtra Government to consider its suggestion to enact a "just, fair and reasonable" rent control legislation as an interim measure to fill the legislative vacuum resulting from the impending lapse of the existing Bombay rents, hotel and lodging house rates Control Act.
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Pak threatens to review nuclear policy
Pakistan yesterday said the Vajpayee Government's announcement to keep the nuclear option open could start a deadly nuclear arms race in the sub-continent. At a weekly Foreign Ministry briefing, Tariq Altaf, Pakistan's spokesman said the `National Agenda' of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a "worrisome" document.
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Ranbaxy misled Govt, claims Maneka
Environmentalist Maneka Gandhi says that Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd misled the government while seeking permission to import 50 beagles from New York for research. Ranbaxy had written to the Chief Wildlife Warden, Delhi, seeking a no-objection certificate to import the beagles.
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