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Investment in infrastructure drops
NEW DELHI, JULY 7. The total investment in infrastructure development in relation to the GDP dropped from 5.4 per cent in 1993-94 to 3.7 per cent in 2002-03, according to the Economic Survey released by the United Progressive Alliance Government ...

Economic Survey suggests freeze on support price
NEW DELHI, JULY 7. Even as there is a growing concern on the uneven spread of monsoon so far, the Economic Survey for 2003-04 has forecast "bright prospects'' for agriculture production in 2004-05 based on the forecast of normal monsoon by the ...

Troops to Iraq: Manmohan clarifies Natwar's remark
NEW DELHI, JULY 7.The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, today denied that there had been any change in the Government's position on sending troops to Iraq. He made it clear that his Government was committed to the parliamentary resolution ...

MALNUTRITION DEATHS - II

'Operation Karn' to the succour of children
DHODRA, Maharashtra, July 7. Two-year-old Sunil Mhauskar has been severely malnourished since a year. His mother, Hiroo, suffers from schizophrenia and every time Sunil is admitted to hospital, she runs away. "We are making efforts but the ...

Sri Lanka ceasefire will hold: Norwegian Minister
NEW DELHI, JULY 7."I think the ceasefire will hold [in Sri Lanka]. The experience of two years of ceasefire is that people see the benefits of peace. I think this is a very powerful experience. Of course, we [have] had incidents from time to time ...

Other Stories

Sonia's charge

Focus on passenger safety: CPI(M)

Stamp paper scam: printing machine seized

NDA to boycott five `tainted' Ministers

`NDA behaving irresponsibly'

India's concern over violation of norms in Iraq

Railway Budget debate derailed

Ansari wants Mirwaiz to resume unity efforts

Finance Commission term extended

Swamy asks TRS to withdraw support

Hunt for DSP in rape case

Bipan Chandra appointed NBT chairman

Technology can help rid poverty: M.S. Swaminathan

Reject NCERT history textbooks in toto: Settar

Death of tribal children: Court strictures on Maharashtra

Five killed in landslips

Government intolerant, says Joshi

President's rule recommended

Stranded Indians have left Iraq, says Natwar

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