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Page-5 of Archives: April, 2014

INSAT-3E expires well before its actual built life

Communications satellite INSAT-3E completed its life even before its expected time and and has become non-operational. Actually, INSAT 3E was built to last 15 years but, as it...

April 20, 2014

Air India seeks bridge loan of $500 million

Air India is in quest of a ‘Bridge Loan’ of up to $500 Mn to take delivery of 4 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircrafts between May and November 2014...

April 20, 2014

RBI liberalizes hedging limit for investors up to $250,000

RBI has liberalized hedging limit for domestic investors to $250,000 from $100,000 on the basis of a simple declaration without any prerequisite of further documentation. RBI has now allowed...

April 20, 2014

Justice G Rohini appointed as the first ever woman Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court

President Pranab Mukherjee cleared the nomination of Justice G Rohini (59), the most senior judge of the Andhra Pradesh high court, as the Chief Justice of the Delhi...

April 20, 2014

Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant sold to ship-breaker for only Rs 60 Crore

Indian Navy’s first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant has been sold for mere Rs 60 Crore via an online auction to an Alang ship-breaker. The decommissioned aircraft carrier played...

April 20, 2014

GK & Current Affairs: April 9-10, 2014

1. Recently, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sought a report from the health ministry on the action taken to stop the use of calcium carbide in the...

April 20, 2014

RBI accepts P. Vijaya Bhaskar Committee's recommendations relating to Financial Benchmarks; asks establishing an independent body for recommending benchmark foreign exchange rate

RBI has accepted the P. Vijaya Bhaskar Committee’s recommendations relating to Financial Benchmarks. RBI has asked for establishing an independent body for recommending benchmark foreign exchange rate in order to...

April 19, 2014

Board of Financial Supervision (BFS) clears proposal that RBI will conduct an independent audit of big corporates declared fraudulent by banks

Following a sequence of investigations by the banks themselves in high-profile cases viz. Deccan Chronicle, Kingfisher Airlines, etc. which yielded very little, the RBI has now decided to itself...

April 19, 2014

RBI raises Rs 20,000 Crores in record auction; India’s biggest debt auction ever

RBI fully sold the Rs 200 billion ($3.31 billion) worth of Government bonds on Thursday April 17, 2014, executing the India’s biggest-ever auction. Speculations ran in market that Life...

April 19, 2014

GK & Current Affairs: April 7, 8, 2014

1. Which of the following countries are world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases? [A]India and China [B]US and China [C]US and Russia [D]China and Russia US and...

April 19, 2014

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