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IITs want to be accredited by statutory body
As the government wants to make accreditation mandatory for all institutions, the IITs have said they would like to be accredited by a statutory body and not by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).

MP to push demand for GST postponement
The Madhya Pradesh government will tomorrow press for its demand to postpone proposed goods and service tax from April next year, as it has estimated that losses to all the states will be in tune with Rs 80000 crore before the committee on GST in New Delhi. “The Centre is putting important issues like health and education at stake if implementing GST, as revenues losses to the states would be much higher than calculated,” AP Shrivastava, principal secretary commercial tax department said, “The proposed GST is not different from VAT however the Centre has wrongly calculated tax-base and revenue losses at Rs 21.66 lakh crore (as per Tax Research Unit of Department of Revenue Government of India) and Rs 35,000 crore.” The state finance minister will demand that this is not an opportune time to implement GST and the Centre should give some time for VAT to settle down.

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Sterlite Industries posts 42% fall in Q1 net
Sterlite Industries, the Vedanta Group diversified base metals producer, has posted 42 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 924 crore in the first quarter of the current financial as compared to Rs 1,595 crore in the same quarter of the previous year. Net sales of the company also plunged by 21 per cent to Rs 4,537 crore from Rs 5,770 crore. Earnings per share (EPS) slipped, therefore, to Rs 9.49 from Rs 16.25 in the first quarter of the previous year.
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Jaswant's book is now smugglers' favourite

The Gujarat government has banned Jaswant Singh’s book. But it is one of the items being smuggled into the state from Rajasthan, along with liquor. Two days ago, there were a few hundred copies of the book in various bookshops across Udaipur. Two days later, there were none. Reason? Smugglers bought these for circulation in Gujarat.


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