Facing all-round flak on galloping inflation, the government on Wednesday tried to wash away some of its worries by predicting a "near-normal' south-west monsoon for the year, suggesting that increased farm production could be expected.

Dental Council of India (DCI), in collaboration with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), launched two post-graduate certificate programmes in dental care on Wednesday. The courses that are of one year duration are in endodontics and oral implantology.

Loss Due To Bad Harvest Timing, Lack Of Storage For a country reeling under an unprecedented food crisis, here is an alarming figure: India losses Rs 55,600 crore worth of crops each year after harvesting. This has been admitted by the government before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture.

A technology that pinpoints the exact size, location and coordinates of a cancerous tumour thereby allowing oncologists to deliver the radiation beam precisely to the planned target is finally in Delhi. Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd has launched the SMH Curie Cancer Centre

The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has finally decided to complete work on a number of roads, including the 12-kilometre expressway linking Greater Noida to NH-24 in Ghaziabad. While 10.5 kilometres of the 12-kilometre expressway having been completed five years ago, a 1.5-kilometre stretch on NH-24 had been encroached upon. Now, GDA vice-chairman SK Dwivedi said compensation and alternative plots of land will provided to residents along the route to clear the area in order to complete the expressway.

There is discouraging news for the 1.76 lakh applicants of the countermanded draw of plots of July 2, 2004, who thought they still had a chance of competing in a fresh draw. The New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) board has already passed a resolution that about 60% of the 1,250 plots should be auctioned. The market rates of these

Congress has said controlling inflation is top priority. Opposition BJP wants to make inflation the main poll issue in Karnataka. The "Third Front' or UNPA has organized rallies on the issue while the Left has accused the UPA government of letting the "common man' down. But on Wednesday, when a discussion on price rise took place in Parliament

It seems a valuable proposition to let it out in Mumbai

In a major relief to companies like Reliance Industries, the government is likely to restore a 7-year income tax holiday on oil and gas production as it was a sovereign commitment to companies investing in the nascent sector. But uncertainity continues over the same tax break being extended to refineries commissioning after April 1, 2009. Sources in the finance ministry said the Budget proposals for 2008-09 had actually intended only to introduce a sunset clause for 7-year income tax holiday for refineries commissioned after April 1, 2009.

Ever wondered why the pack of soap you picked up mentions the weight as

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