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India might be 1st BRIC to lose investment rating: S&P

As per the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s India may become the 1st BRIC country to be degraded in investment grade rating. What is the reason that might...

June 13, 2012

Government wants to plug leakages in PDS

The government aims to plug loopholes in the Public Distribution System (PDS) before it implements the ambitious National Food Security Bill and has asked states to complete the...

June 12, 2012

Govt to revisit Watershed management guidelines

The guidelines provided for Integrated Watershed Management Programme to be revised as State Governments found the current guidelines rigid and inflexible to their requirement. The States have demanded...

June 9, 2012

R N Choubey: New head of DGH

Government appoints Rajiv Nayan Choubey, a senior bureaucrat,1981batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, as Director General, Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH). He will be the first bureaucrat...

June 7, 2012

IT Investment Region (ITIR) to come up in Bangalore, Karnataka

India’s first IT Investment Region (ITIR) for knowledge-based industries, including software and hardware firms with entire supply chain, to come up in Bangalore. The high-powered committee of the...

June 5, 2012

UP budget: 500cr waiver farm loans

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav presented state Budget for 2012-13. Some key highlights of the UP Budget:- Budget does not incorporate any new tax Provision of Rs500...

June 3, 2012

PM with C Rangarajan, D Subbarao & Montek Singh reviews decline in rupee and its impact

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviewed the plummeting trend of rupee value and its impact on the economy with: D Subbarao , RBI Governor; Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning Commission...

May 26, 2012

Agreement signed for manufacture of Railways spare parts

An Agreement inked for manufacture of Railways spare parts. Objective: Manufacture Railways spare parts at Jalingham near Nandigram in West Bengal Main signatories: Indian Railways Steel Authority of...

May 26, 2012

SBI posts nearly 200-time increase in profit for Jan-March period

SBI, India’s largest bank posted nearly 200-time increase in profit at over Rs 4,000 crore for January-March period. This is the highest ever quarterly profit in SBI’s history...

May 23, 2012

‘Give free land for 999 years to set up private varsities’

A Committee report on corporate sector participation in higher education headed by Chief Mentor of Infosys N R Narayana Murthy presented its report to the Planning Commission Deputy...

May 14, 2012

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