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Asoke Kumar Mukerji – The next Permanent Representative of India to the UN

Asoke Kumar Mukerji, currently Special Secretary at headquarters, has been appointed as the next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York.

February 20, 2013

Golden Bear to ‘Child’s Pose’: Berlinale

Child’s Pose (Poziţia Copilului) by Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer was awarded the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear)...

February 20, 2013

American philosopher and law expert Ronald Dworkin passed away

American philosopher and constitutional law scholar Ronald Dworkin (81), who debated that the law should be founded on moral integrity, has passed away. He was widely known and...

February 20, 2013

50% increase in Bad loans of listed Banks

The bad loans or Non Performing Assets of listed banks swelled by 50% at Rs 30,840 crore in the first nine months of the current financial year ended...

February 19, 2013

SEBI freezes bank accounts of two Sahara group firms

Market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ordered freezing of bank accounts and attachment of properties of two Sahara group firms – Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Ltd...

February 19, 2013

Italy arrests head of Italian company on charges of bribery in Defence deal

The head of Italian firm Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, has been arrested in Milan in connection with charges that bribes were paid to secure an Indian defence helicopter deal...

February 19, 2013

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February 19, 2013

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February 19, 2013

Fact Box: Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)

  Cabinet approves setting up of SPV for TAPI gas pipeline The Union Cabinet has given nod to set up the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for the $9-billion...

February 16, 2013

Mohan Parasaran is new Solicitor General of India

Mohan Parasaran has been appointed as the new Solicitor General of India following the resignation of senior advocate Rohinton Nariman from the post. Mr Parasaran, who is currently...

February 16, 2013

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