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Just merge it with NPS (Cached)	7.9.2010	ET: Opinion
Workers will have the freedom to invest more than the contribution rate, if they want a higher pension income.
FE Editorial : Pension plans (Cached)	7.9.2010	Financial Express
FE Editorial : Pension plans
Civic body to auction stalls at Bandra fair (Cached)	7.9.2010	Hindustan Times: News
With the high court directive limiting the number of the stalls during the Bandra fair to 165, the civic body is planning which stalls should be allowed to conduct business.
Week-long 'Clean Delhi' drive kicks off (Cached)	7.9.2010	TOI: Delhi Times
In an effort to spruce up the capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games, thousands of volunteers from the civil society took part in the 'Clean Delhi-NCR Drive' drive on Monday.
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Pension tension (Cached)	7.9.2010	Indian Express: Columns
The UPA moves backwards on pension plans, imperilling all its other schemes
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FE Editorial : Pension plans (Cached)	7.9.2010	Financial Express: Front Page
The government's likely move, reported in FE yesterday, to roll out a national retirement plan with a fixed income to 400 million workers in the unorganised sector will be a retrograde step and will take us back to an era where defined benefits rather than defined contributions drove pension schemes.
'Give candle stalls priority during Bandra fair' (Cached)	7.9.2010	DNA: Top News
Candle vendors, who set shop on the roads leading to the Mount Mary Church during the eight-day feast, demanded that BMC give them preference over other hawkers while auctioning stalls for the festival.
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Surinder Sud: Farming without fear	7.9.2010	Business Standard: Opinion & Analysis
Consider these startling facts. Nearly 45,000 agricultural workers lose their lives every year working in the fields and 755,000 others suffer various kinds of injuries, many of which can be wholly or partially debilitating. The economic losses from such accidents are estimated at a whopping Rs 54,000 crore a year.
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What's the motive? (Cached)	7.9.2010	TOI: Editorial
Money makes the world go round well, almost
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Obama enters mid-terms campaign with $50bn infrastructure plan	6.9.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
President on the road to persuade voters economy is safe in his hands, ahead of elections expected to be tough on Democrats Barack Obama is launching a campaign to persuade American voters that the ailing US economy is safe in his hands, ahead of November's mid-term elections in which the Democrats are expected to receive a drubbing. The president chose Milwaukee, a city in the manufacturing heartlands and home of the motorbike firm Harley-Davidson, to unveil a $50bn (£32bn) infrastructure package designed to boost jobs by investing in roads, railways and airport runways. White House officials presented the scheme as a jump-starting of the economy that would put construction workers, welders and electricians back to work. The speech ...
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New fixed-income pension on the cards (Cached)	6.9.2010	Financial Express
New fixed-income pension on the cards
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Trade unions call 24-hour strike Tuesday (Cached)	6.9.2010	New Kerala: World News

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Trade unions call 24-hour strike on Tuesday	6.9.2010	Deccan Herald: National
"It would be a 24-hour-long general strike," said M.K. Pandhe, a leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-affiliated Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)."It is an industrial shutdown," Pandhe told IANS.The Communist-affiliated All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) and the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) are taking part in the strike. The workers' main demands are: - Contain price rise of essential commodities- Take pro-active measures to link employment protection in recession hit sectors- Strictly enforce all basic labour laws without any exception- Announce Rs.50,000 crore for an unorganised workers' social security fund- Stop disinvestment in central public sector enterprises
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India gets 'ready' for another bandh (Cached)	6.9.2010	Rediff: Business
On September 7, the trade unions have called a dawn to dusk bandh to protest against rise in price of daily commodities and, once again, fuel price hikes.
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All-India strike to hit banking services hard (Cached)	6.9.2010	CNN-IBN: India
Nearly 10 lakh employees from all the banks will participate in the strike.
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'Two-wheeler finance picking up' (Cached)	6.9.2010	ET: Opinion
Retail finance was among the prominent sectors that faced the brunt of the economic slowdown after the sub-prime mess in the US.
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Market Economics (Cached)	6.9.2010	Indian Express: Delhi

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Spreadsheet (Cached)	6.9.2010	Financial Express: Front Page
The sharp rise in consumer prices in the current year has made life difficult for the top officials in finmin and RBI, with experts and the media blaming them for both the sharp price rise and the inability to curb the rise.
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New fixed-income pension on cards (Cached)	6.9.2010	Financial Express: Front Page
New fixed-income pension on cards
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New fixed-income pension on the cards (Cached)	6.9.2010	Indian Express: Business
Even before the stock market-linked new pension scheme (NPS) could attract a sizable following, the government has decided to roll out a national retirement plan that promises a fixed income to the 400 million workers in the unorganised sector.
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