The 'ageing tax' is a central plank of a consultation launched by the prime minister on Monday in the face of a growing crisis over who should meet the costs for the care of the elderly. Under proposal put forward by the government, the 'ageing tax' could run alongside the existing National Insurance levy. The Labour government would prepare a green paper early next year on ways to provide adequate non-medical care for the elderly, but legislation before 2010 is unlikely.
The talismanic Ghanaian's fourth strike in the tournament took the defending champions past HAL and to the top of the table.
Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Michael Essien have been nominated for the African Footballer of the Year award
Calling for deepening the traditions of communal harmony, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says people resorting to violence in the name of religion are doing disservice to their faith and humanity at large.
The armyman secured a whopping 7325 points to better V.S. Chauhan's effort of 7306, set at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
The Union Public Service Commission will hold the National Defence Academy and Naval Academy examination (I), 2007, on April 27, 2007.
The process of ministry expansion in Karnataka has run into rough weather following differences between the two coalition partners, the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular, over the allocation of plum portfolios
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Commerce Minister Arun Jaitlet said on Monday that India had been successful in getting outsourced business from abroad including the US because of its competitive edge and by virtue of being a low cost economy.
Observing that India is making remarkable progress, Lord Swraj Paul has said that if it continued to do so, it would emerge as a developed nation on the strength of its economic progress as also its human rights record.
The former Test skipper will be in London commentating for Sky Sports.
Ahmed Javed Khwaja is the second Pakistani doctor to be arrested on suspicion of having links with the banned outfit.
But former All England champion Pullela Gopichand, Nikhil Kanetkar and Chetan Anand bowed out of the German Open.\n
Under tremendous pressure from its women members, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday favoured reservation of 33 per cent Lok Sabha constituencies as double-member seats.
The 90-year-old actor was suffering from heart ailment for quite some time and was discharged from a local hospital two days ago.
'At this point of time, West Bengal is doing better than other states in tackling the crisis. We have a chief minister who herself has hit the streets to do what is to be done, and at the same time ensuring a proper lockdown. She is also trying day and night to set up the requisite infrastructure.'
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