Friday, October 29, 1999
NCP boycotts Maharashtra Cabinet meeting
The Nationalist Congress Party yesterday delivered its threat of boycotting the state Cabinet meeting to protest the size of the council of ministers raising questions about the fate of the fledgling Democratic Front Government in Maharashtra.
US talks of strategic, economic reforms
Amid Congressional pressure to upgrade its ties with India to a ``strategic relationship'', the Clinton administration has formally eased some sanctions, even as a US official suggested the two countries could enter rightaway into a strategic economic relationship.
IRA Bill introduced in LS amid protests
Braving the combined onslaught of the Left parties, the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Finance minister Yashwant Sinha managed to introduce the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) Bill after about one and a half hours of acrimonious debate on the issue.
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