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Ukraine crisis 2014: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaty to make Crimea part of Russia

Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea signed a treaty in Moscow to make Crimea part of Russia again. Though, Mr. Putin stated that he...

March 23, 2014

Ukraine crisis 2014: Russia suspended from G-8 Countries Club over its incursion into Crimea

The Group of Eight countries have suspended Russia from elite club of world powers amid heightened tensions over Ukraine and Russia’s incursion into Crimea. Despite this suspension of...

March 23, 2014

Ms Aditi Khanna became first women President of Indian Journalist's Association

Ms. Aditi Khanna became the first women President of Indian Journalist’s Association (IJA) in London. At present, Ms. Khanna is the London correspondent for Press Trust of India....

March 23, 2014

US FDIC sued 16 world largest banks for manipulating LIBOR rates

The US regulator, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) filed a law-suit on 16 world’s largest banks, as these global financial institutions are accuse of conspiring to manipulate the...

March 23, 2014

RBI cautioned banks to protect ATMs and systems as Windows XP support ends on April 8, 2014

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cautioned banks to take immediate steps to implement appropriate systems and controls if their systems and ATMs are still working on...

March 23, 2014

Lok Sabha elections 2014: EC issued detailed guidelines for political ads on social networking sites

In a bid to curb paid news in the Lok Sabha elections 2014, the Election Commission issued detailed guidelines to social networking sites on posting of election related...

March 23, 2014

RBI hiked trade related remittance limit from Rs.2 lakh to Rs.5 lakh per transaction

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked the trade related remittance limit from Rs.2 lakh to Rs.5 lakh per transaction with immediate effect and also increased the number...

March 22, 2014

Mr. Nandan Nilekani resigned as UIDAI chairman

Mr. Nandan Nilekani resigned as chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and formally joined Congress. Infosys co-founder Mr. Nilekani will contest Lok Sabha polls from Bangalore....

March 22, 2014

DoT issued new guidelines to tackle the threats of Cyber attack

Under the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued guidelines to tackle the threats of cyber attacks and hacking of websites. As...

March 22, 2014

SIPRI: India is the world’s largest arms importer

As per the report published by the Sweden-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India become the world’s largest arms importer over 2004-13 and its import of weapon...

March 22, 2014

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