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Tuesday, April 14, 1998
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Sops for all, shock for swadeshis
Dealing a ideological blow to the proponents of `swadeshi' brigade within the ruling coalition, Commerce Minister Ramakrishna Hegde has liberalised imports of a whole range of consumer goods and announced a major package of incentives for exporters. In keeping with India's commitment to the World Trade Organisation, Hegde has removed 326 items like canned juices, shaving creams, toilet soaps, and `bindis', to name just a few, from the restricted list of imports.
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Four governors quit after Advani's prod
Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna, Goa Governor T R Satishchandran, Mizoram Governor Arun Prosad Mukherjee and Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar I K Gupta yesterday resigned from their posts. A day after Home Minister L K Advani announced that governors' appointment during the caretaker government of I K Gujral would be reviewed.
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US envoy unlikely to clinch N-bargain
The Indian government seems to be highly sceptical about agreeing to any "grand bargains" on the nuclear issue that might be suggested by the high-level US delegation that arrives in New Delhi today. Bill Richardson, a personal envoy of US president Bill Clinton and Washington's ambassador to the UN, goes into talks with prime minister A B Vajpayee soon after he lands from Bangladesh, with the shadow of Pakistan's enhanced missile capability hanging over the discussions.
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Centre to introduce environment as subject in schools, colleges
Union forests and environment minister, Suresh Prabhu has said that from the next academic year, the Central government will introduce environment as a compulsory subject from class 1 to last year of graduation. Prabhu said the government would amend laws if necessary to introduce the subject.
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