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G20 should consider bank tax urgently: UK

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A tax on financial transactions should be considered with urgency, British PM said.
Lukewarm reaction to UK tax plan
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's idea of a financial transactions tax has received a lukewarm response from G20 countries.
Brown joins call for global tax on banks
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on the G20 to consider a tax on financial transactions to fund future bailouts and make banks more accountable to society.
British PM revives global tax idea at G20 meet
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Saturday resurrected the idea of the international community imposing a global tax on banks as a repayment for the billions of pounds of taxpayers' money they have received from governments.
G20: Gordon Brown calls for global tax on financial transactions
Prime Minister has called for a global levy to prevent future bank bailouts as G20 leaders meet in Scotland.
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Finally, Maharashtra gets a new government

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Ashok Chavan was sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister at the head of 26-member Congress-Nationalist Congress Party ministry in Mumbai on Saturday evening, two weeks after the assembly elections...
Maha gets new govt, 2 weeks after Assembly poll results
Ashok Chavan was sworn in as Maharashtra Chief Minister at the head of 26-member Congress-NCP ministry on Saturday evening, two weeks after the Assembly elections results were declared.
38-member Maharashtra Cabinet sworn in
Our endeavour was to give State a stable government: Chavan
Two women in new Maharashtra government
Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party's Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday.
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