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Current Affairs : December 5, 2011

Reliance to build India’s largest solar power unit at Jaisalmer India will have its largest solar power plant at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan in less than one year from...

December 5, 2011

Justice Markandey Katju

On 19 September 2011, Justice Markandey Katju has retired as a judge of Supreme Court of India. Katju was appointed as a judge of the Allahabad High Court...

November 30, 2011

Impeachment motion against Justice Sen dropped by Lok Sabha

Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court escaped impeachment by the Lok Sabha When the Law Minister Salman Khurshid conveyed to the House the information about Justice...

November 5, 2011

SBI Subsidiary Banks Bill passed by the Parliament

Parliament passed a Bill that attempt to shift powers to the Central Government from the RBI w.r.t. to State Bank of Hyderabad (a SBI subsidiary) The Lok Sabha accepted...

November 5, 2011

FSLRC asked to review PF and small savings norms

Recently, the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) has been asked by the government to review of the rules governing Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), government securities and...

November 4, 2011

Obituary : P C Alexander

P C Alexander, former Maharashtra governor recently died at 90. An IAS officer of the 1948 batch, Alexander was in the running for president in 2002 after K...

November 4, 2011

Mohammed Rizwan, gets rare Chinese ‘green card’

Recently, Mohammed Rizwan of India, a graduate in Chinese language from Jawaharlal Nehru University, has been given a visa for five years instead of the one-year visa given...

November 4, 2011

Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award-2010

Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award is conferred on three individuals who make outstanding contribution in the field of Child Protection, Child Development or Child Welfare for over ten...

November 4, 2011

Impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen

On 19 August 2011, in a historic first, the Rajya Sabha voted in favour of impeaching Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen, finding him guilty of misappropriating...

November 4, 2011

Why Two year Extension to Subbarao?

Recently, the PMO office has announced a two-year extension for Reserve Bank of India governor D Subbarao. We note that it’s Finance Ministry, which deals with the RBI...

October 30, 2011

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