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Telecom Minister introduces TRAI Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha

The project is set to be completed in two phases and the first phase is estimated to cost around Rs 2,000 crore.

In the Interim Budget presented by the UPA-II government, the amount was Rs 2,24,000 crore.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed to raise the tax exemption limit for tax payers aged above 60 years to Rs 3 lakh from the present Rs 2.5 lakh.

The long pending Goods and Services Tax would subsume indirect levies such as excise, service and local taxes.

After a meeting with Union Food Minister, Omar was asked whether the PM was able to win the heart of people after his recent visit to the state.

The Survey says that inflation is down but still above acceptable limits.

"It is a classic exercise in a beauty parlour treatment", CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said.

RJD President Lalu Prasad dubbed the Rail budget as a fraud perpetrated on the people and an attempt to hand over the Railways to foreign hands.

Anand Sharma said that the Congress would exercise all options to ensure a "democratically correct and logical conclusion" to the issue.

The objection came after the Commerce Ministry in a cabinet note proposed 100 pc FDI in areas like high-speed train systems and freight lines.

Violent protests broke out in Kanth area of Moradabad on Friday over holding a 'Mahapanchayat' during which BJP leaders including four MPs and MLA Sangeet Som were detained.

As many as 200 people from Najaf and 400 Indian nationals from South Baghdad will head for their homeland on Sunday.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday thanked the Narendra Modi Government for ensuring the return of the Indian nurses from strife-hit Iraq.

Vaghela claimed that questions raised by six Congress MLAs, which were accepted by the BJP-led Gujarat government earlier, were later removed from the list of questions to be discussed during the assembly session.

Police had earlier in the day detained riot-accused MP Sangeet Som while on his way to Moradabad to hold a mahapanchayat.