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India need not transfer $10 bn into IMF right away

India may not be required to infuse $10 billion (Rs 55,000 crore) it promised at the G20 to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for bailing out debt-trapped Euro...

June 21, 2012

GOOGLE: 49% increase in the Online content censorship demands from India

  Internet behemoth Google registered 255 instances of India requesting for online content censorship, posing a sharp increase of 49% in the second half of 2011. India’s request...

June 19, 2012

Govt initiates 10% stake sell off in Nalco

The government has started the process of 10% stake sale in National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco, based in Bhubaneshwar) which may enrich the exchequer  with around Rs 12,000...

June 19, 2012

Fitch cuts down on India’s credit rating outlook

After Standard and Poor’s another global rating agency Fitch degraded India’s credit rating outlook to negative. As per Fitch: corruption, inadequate reforms, high inflation and slow growth are...

June 19, 2012

India Inc disgruntled with RBI not slashing rates

India Inc is dissatisfied with RBI’s decision of keeping interest rates unchanged As per Assocham, a cut in interest rates may give some boost to the industrial sector...

June 19, 2012

MoU signed b/w UCIL & Karnataka for uranium ore mining

The Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) and the Karnataka government inked pact to establish a uranium ore mining and processing plant in Karnataka. UCIL projected to invest...

June 19, 2012

Farmers to avail loans directly from commercial banks

Farmers in Maharashtra who are yet to obtain loans from cooperative banks can now expect them from commercial banks. The state govt will soon take measures to assist...

June 19, 2012

Government increases MSP of major Kharif crops

The government increased Minimum Support Price (MSPs) of primary kharif crops for the 2012-13 by up to 53 % that triggered concerns about further rise in food inflation....

June 19, 2012

First time in the country- Tamil Nadu to print RTI replies in Braille

As a first in the country, Tamil Nadu State Information Commission (TNSIC) will provide RTI replies in Braille. Objective: As per the TNSIC more than 7 lakh visually...

June 19, 2012

Kurbanpur (Haryana): First village of India to have lands records on satellite

Haryana’s Kurbanpur village of district Ambala became the 1st village of the country to put the land records of all its farmers on satellite The technique is developed...

June 19, 2012

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