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Asset Liability Management

Asset Liability Management (ALM) is a term pertaining to the managing and balancing the risks arising out of a bank’s assets viz. loans and liabilities viz. deposits. Various...

March 8, 2013

Route Dispersal Guidelines

The core philosophy behind the route dispersal guidelines is that via these, the government makes the airline operators accept the social obligation to fly to the northeast and...

March 8, 2013

General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR)

GAAR refers to General Anti-Avoidance Rules. These rules target any transaction or business arrangement that is entered into with the objective of avoiding tax. The objective is to...

March 8, 2013

National Investment Fund

A major question in context with the Disinvestment in India has been the routing and utilization of the money obtained via disinvestment. As we know that the process...

March 8, 2013

Bangaladeh confers Liberation War Honour on Pranab Mukherjee

Bangladesh has extended his gratitude by conferring Liberation War Honor Award on Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, for his "outstanding contribution" to the 1971 war even as the country...

March 8, 2013

Disinvestment & Related Issues

Disinvestment and Privatization are two different terms in technical sense, though both involve the sale of Government’s share in the Public Sector Undertakings. The term privatization is used for...

March 8, 2013

All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012

An ordinance was promulgated by the President of India using the power of Ordinances via article 123 of the Constitution. The ordinance allowed the six AIIMS—like institutes to...

March 8, 2013

National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF)

India is a nation of young people – out of a population of above 1.1 billion, 672 million people are in the age-group 15 to 59 years, – which is...

March 8, 2013

Setusamudram Project

Setusamudram is the part of sea that separates Tamil Nadu, India and island nation Sri Lanka. It passes through the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait, and a...

March 8, 2013

Independent Coal Regulatory Authority Bill, 2012

Introduction India has the fourth-largest coal reserves in the world. There are huge power expansions plans which need to be fuelled by coal. However, there has been no...

March 8, 2013

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