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Constitution 97th Amendment Act and Part IXB

The Constitution (Ninety Seventh Amendment) Act 2011 relating to the co-operatives is aimed to encourage economic activities of cooperatives which in turn help progress of rural India. It...

November 30, 2012

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November 30, 2012

Constitution (97th Amendment) Act, 2011

The Constitution (Ninety Seventh Amendment) Act 2011 relating to the co-operatives is aimed to encourage economic activities of cooperatives which in turn help progress of rural India. It...

November 30, 2012

India and the NPT

The recently concluded Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) has renewed the call for the universalisation of the treaty. The NPT RevCon has asked India along with Pakistan and...

November 29, 2012

PPP in railways allowed

The government has allowed a private investment policy in the railways. The performance of Railways in PPP (Public-Private Partnership) projects has been dismal. Now, the Govt will try...

November 29, 2012

Tata Sons to offload a part of its 60 per cent stake in direct-to-home Tata Sky Ltd

Tata Sons, a holding company of the Tata Group has 60% stake in the DTH (Direct-To-Home) Tata Sky Ltd. DTH (Direct-To-Home) Tata Sky Ltd is loss-making company and...

November 29, 2012

China’s new passport map falsely includes AP, Aksai Chin as part of China

Another game by China: The watermark on fresh launched e-passports by China falsely depict Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in J&K as parts of China. Reaction from India:...

November 29, 2012

Anti-Piracy Scheme in Audio-Visual Sector gets approval by Central Govt

Under the 12th five year plan, the Union government has approved a scheme by Information & Broadcasting Ministry for carrying out an anti-piracy initiative in the audio-visual sector....

November 29, 2012

Maldives cancels GMR’s $511m airport project

The Maldives government has terminated a USD 511 million contract with Indian infrastructure firm GMR for the development and operation of the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (now Velana...

November 29, 2012

Ms Chitra Ramakrishna to be new CEO & MD of NSE

Leading bourse National Stock Exchange (NSE) announced Ms Chitra Ramakrishna as its new MD and CEO with effect from 1 April, 2013. At present only two of the...

November 29, 2012

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