The effects of the economic slow down due to the global financial crisis, has resulted in a five per cent fall in excise and customs collection during October. The decline in indirect tax collection comes at a time when the government is finding it hard to mobilize resources, while expenditure on subsidies and other welfare measures is going up.
The excise collection, decreased by 8.7 per cent to Rs 18,664 crore as against Rs 19,646 crore during the same period a year ago, while customs duty collections declined by 0.9 per cent to Rs 9,265 crore from Rs 9,353 crore in October 2007.
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Networked high-definition screens from Cisco Systems would be installed in the new Yankee Stadium in New York, which would be capable of showing live game play and later switch to giving exit directions and traffic information. 
Ram Gopal Verma is all set to storm the theatre very soon with a big cast line up for his next venture, 'Rann'.After a few ups like ‘Sarkar and Sarkar Raj’ and a few downs like 'Aag', 'Darling' and 'Phoonk’ the ace director has bollywoods biggest stars Amitabh Bachchan... Paresh Rawal... Riteish Deshmukh... Mohnish Behl... Manisha Koirala... Rajat Kapoor... Sudeep... Gul Panag... Raima Sen and Rajpal Yadav by his side. 
