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India’s first Islamic bank will open in Kerala by 2010

  What is a Islamic Bank? Islamic banking refers to a system of banking or banking activity that is consistent with the principles of Islamic law (Sharia) and...

September 20, 2009

Orissa government signs MOU with SBI for Electronic benefit transfer for NREGA

September 23, 2009: With an aim to achieve financial inclusion and provide door step banking to the rural people, the Orissa government today signed a memorandum of understanding...

September 20, 2009

RBI’s Financial Literacy Drive Programme for Financial Inclusion

The idea behind the Financial inclusion is that all people or every household in the country must have an operative account in a bank. To achieve 100 per...

September 20, 2009

Mini Current Affairs Current Affairs : Awards September 2009

September 18, 2009: Castrol Awards for Cricketing ExcellenceRahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Gautam Gambhir were presented Castrol Awards on September 18, 2009. Gundappa Vishwanath was given...

September 17, 2009

Mini Current Affairs : Current Affairs : Business & Economy

August 13, 2009: Urban horticulture scheme of Indian Overseas BankIndian Overseas Bank has introduced a new scheme IOB-Urban Horticulture.What is this scheme about?A loan can be availed (minimum...

September 13, 2009

India’s Global roadshows for Hydrocarbon projects

What are these roadshows? Minister of State for Petroleum Jitin Prasad was recently in North America for shows in tour for promotion & atttraction of investment in India;s...

September 11, 2009

Current Issues : North Korea : A Chameleon or A Change Agent

Recently North Korea has made a series of rare, compromising motions which might have pacified the regional tension to some extent. This article deals with the chronicle of...

September 11, 2009

Current Article : Visit of Nepali Premier to India

Recently Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was in India for a 5 days goodwill visit from August 18 to 22. This was the first official visit of...

September 9, 2009

Current Article: New Notice on Investment in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Background of the situation: The MSE sector in India has around 26 million (2.6 crore) units in which employ about 60 million (6 crore) people. After declaring Industrial...

September 7, 2009

Global Competitiveness Report 2009-10

The Global Competitiveness Report is a report annually published by the World Economic Forum since 1979. This report “assesses the ability of countries to provide high levels of...

September 7, 2009

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