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‘Color-Coded Mutual Funds’: SEBI to introduce color-coded Mutual Fund products

SEBI is planning to introduce color-coded Mutual Fund  (MF) products which will inform investors about the level of risk involved with the instrument. As per SEBI, healthy business...

February 5, 2013

Obama honors Indian American Scientist

Indian American scientist Rangaswamy Srinivasan has been honored with the prestigious 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation by U.S. President Barack Obama. For more about Rangaswamy Srinivasan:Click...

February 5, 2013

India Cements appoints M S Dhoni as its Vice President

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been appointed as vice-president of India Cements, a company which is headed by BCCI President N Srinivasan. India Cements are the owners...

February 5, 2013

First Triangular India-US-Africa Partnership at Hyderabad

The first triangular India-US-Africa partnership in agricultural training was inaugurated by India and the US at the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad. The objective of...

February 5, 2013

Pakistan gives Gwadar port to China for operations

Pakistan has handed over the operations responsibility of its strategically located Gwadar port to China’s Overseas Port Holdings. Previously it was with Singapore’s PSA (Port of Singapore Authority)...

February 5, 2013

UK bans sale of five invasive non-native aquatic plants

The British Government, for the first time, has declared to impose a ban over the sale of five species of invasive non-native aquatic plants. Why this ban? According...

February 5, 2013

Microsoft takes Office to the cloud

Now, people can subscribe to Office 365 as a service in the Internet cloud, obviating the need to buy the popular productivity software on a disk. How would...

February 5, 2013

SEBI permits HSEL to exit

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has allowed the erstwhile Hyderabad Stock Exchange (now Hyderabad Securities and Enterprises Limited (HSEL)) to exit as a stock exchange....

February 4, 2013

RIM renamed as BlackBerry

Developer of Blackberry, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is changing its name to BlackBerry to refresh its tarnished image as it begins marketing a reengineered line of BlackBerry...

February 4, 2013

India falls nine places to 140th rank in World Press Freedom Index

India has stumbled nine places to 140th position in the list of 179 countries in the latest World Press Freedom Index2013. India’s show is worst since 2002. The...

February 4, 2013

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