The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 13, 2004

POLITICS
Vote-on-account soon — BJP recommends elections `as early as possible'
THE National Executive Meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Monday recommended to the Union Government to call for elections to the Lok Sabha as early as possible. Responding positively to the recommendation, the Prime Minister, Mr ... More

Congress pooh-poohs NDA claims on economic front
UNABLE to accelerate the economic growth in the past six years, the NDA Government at the Centre is indulging in a nationwide disinformation campaign, with the `feel good factor' and taking credit for all the wrong reasons on the economic front, ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY
'Govt will introduce contract farming'
THE Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr Rajnath Singh, has said that the Government was committed to introducing contract farming in the country. He also said that seed production would be brought under the crop insurance scheme before the next ... More

E-GOVERNANCE
Date extended for e-filing of TDS returns
THE Finance Ministry has extended the last date for filing of tax deduction at source (TDS) returns on computer media to March 31, 2004. The extension has been given in respect of the tax deducted in the `previous year' 2002-03. An official ... More

Community info centres to be set up in J&K
THE Union Government has decided to set up Community Information Centres (CIC) across Jammu and Kashmir, replicating the `successful' experiment in the North-East. "We are going to do it right away," a senior Department of Information ... More

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