With commerce minister Pranah Mukherjee and commerce secretary A V Ganeshan both indicating the government was veering around to the pro-Dunkel point of view, its opponents have become worried.

FOR NEARLY two decades, scientist bureaucrat M G K Menon has been envied and hated by jealous rivals for the favours he has enjoyed from successive Indian governments, whatever the ruling party.

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In a calibrated and coordinated move, the entire Opposition, including the ideologically opposed BJP and the Left and the Samajwadi Party which is supporting the UPA Government from outside, on Tuesday called for a dawn-to-dusk Bharat bandh on July 5 protesting the hike in fuel prices and demanding a rollback.

AMBALA: Even as the Centre expressed its readiness to look into

State government report stops short of taking action a government inspection of 48 mines in Goa found 35 of them operating without a lease. Some of them did not have mandatory clearances. A committee chaired by the state