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Cong terms to back IRDA Bill
NEW DELHI, Dec 1 — The Congress today extended conditional support to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, insisting that four amendments being moved by it supporting social and infrastructural sectors were accepted by the government.
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Insurance sector: challenges ahead		 A protester throws back a gas canister that was used by Seattle police
A protester throws back a gas canister that was used by Seattle police to deter protesters in downtown Seattle Tuesday. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in a successful effort to disrupt the opening ceremonies of the 135-nation WTO. — AP/PTI
PM's assurance on Seattle meeting
NEW DELHI, Nov 1 — The turbulence at Seattle ahead of the World Trade Organisation conference was felt today in the Lok Sabha with non-Congress opposition parties staging a walkout demanding clarification from the Prime Minister on reports of informal agreement between India and the USA in some sectors.		 WTO agenda:
India rejects
US demand
India not to support EU
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Mahatma GandhiIndira GandhiIndira Gandhi ‘woman of millennium’
Mahatma Gandhi ‘Asian of century’
LONDON, Dec 1 — Late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has been voted the greatest woman of the millennium in a BBC poll pushing behind Queen Elizabeth I.

50 pc customs duty on wheat
NEW DELHI, Dec 1 — The government today imposed a 50 per cent custom duty on the import of common and durrum varieties of wheat to stimulate offtake of wheat from the overloaded Central pool.

SGPC Secretary removed
AMRITSAR, Dec 1 — The much-awaited removal of the secretary, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Mr Kulwant Singh, today raised many an eyebrow.


Pakistanis languish in jail
AMRITSAR, Dec 1 — Many Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationals are languishing in the local Central Jail even after completion of their sentence as in most cases both the countries refuse to own them.



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