India budget voted without debate
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India's national budget is passed by parliament amid an opposition boycott after a row with the prime minister.
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Independent observers confirmed that the random auditing of results from the recall referendum (Sunday August 15) against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez show there are no indications of fraud as claimed by the opposition.
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for the millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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India has responded coolly to Pakistani proposals on finding new ways to end their dispute over Kashmir while opposition politicians in Pakistan rejected the proposals outright.
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NEW DELHI -- India's five-month-old governing coalition received a major boost yesterday when the ruling Congress Party won a solid victory over Hindu nationalist parties in a state election that had been widely seen as a test of the new government's staying power.
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The Reserve Bank of India announced the mid-term review of its monetary policy on Tuesday. Though the central Bank kept away from the much expected interest rate hike, the policy contained recommendations
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The board of India's biggest private enterprise, Reliance Industries, approved a share buyback, ignoring objections from the vice-chairman who is battling with his brother for control over the firm.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a crucial confidence vote in parliament on Friday over an unpopular budget which he describes as a bitter medicine that Italy has to swallow to get its finances in order.
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Romania&#39;s minority centrist  government survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on  Monday that had been proposed by President Traian Basescu&#39;s  opposition Democrat party.
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Neither my constituents nor myself were bribed. A lot of the proposals in the White Paper are just that, proposals on which no votes involving constituency voters will be called.
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The Russian State Duma voted 430-0 with no abstentions at its session on Wednesday to ratify a protocol with Ukraine to partially abolish registration requirements for Russian and Ukrainian citizens.
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NEW DELHI, Oct. 16 -- India's five-month-old governing coalition received a major boost Saturday when the ruling Congress Party won a solid victory over Hindu nationalist parties in a  state election that had been widely seen as a test of the new government's staying power.
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Greece's government survives a no-confidence vote, fending off the prospect of snap elections.
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Reliance Industries Ltd.&#39;s board approved a share buy-back plan on Monday, but Vice-Chairman Anil Ambani abstained from voting amid a deepening family row in India&#39;s largest private sector company.
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The U.S. House of Representatives ignored a White House veto threat and voted on Thursday to allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning groups outside the United States even though they engage in abortion activities.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the Bank Rate untouched at 6% today, but raised the repo rate by 0.25% to 4.75% effective from tomorrow.
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The United Nations General Assembly passed a $4.17 billion budget for 2008-09 with the United States casting the only vote against because of provisions for a conference it sees as anti-Israeli.