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SEBI freezes bank accounts of two Sahara group firms

Market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ordered freezing of bank accounts and attachment of properties of two Sahara group firms – Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Ltd...

February 19, 2013

Mohan Parasaran is new Solicitor General of India

Mohan Parasaran has been appointed as the new Solicitor General of India following the resignation of senior advocate Rohinton Nariman from the post. Mr Parasaran, who is currently...

February 16, 2013

Fact Box: Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)

  Cabinet approves setting up of SPV for TAPI gas pipeline The Union Cabinet has given nod to set up the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for the $9-billion...

February 16, 2013

Angelo Mathews appointed as captain of Sri Lankan cricket team

Angelo Mathews has been selected as Sri Lanka’s Test and one-day  international captain for the rest of 2013. He took the reins from Mahela Jayawardene, who recently nominated...

February 16, 2013

MCX-SX starts trading

India’s new stock exchange MCX-SX has started trading in equities, competing against the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE). MCX-SX is the third national...

February 16, 2013

Parle-G is now India’s first homegrown Rs 5K crore FMCG brand

The1939 born Parle-G glucose biscuit brand of Parle Products has become the first Indian FMCG brand to cross the Rs 5,000-crore mark in retail sales in a year....

February 16, 2013

Government lowers GDP growth estimate for 2012-13 to 5%

As per latest official estimates of Central Statistical Organization (CSO), the GDP growth of India in the current fiscal has declined to 5% which is much lower than...

February 14, 2013

Fact Box: Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS)

RGESS schemes to become more investor-friendly – Finance Minister P. Chidambram Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has expressed the need revisit the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) to...

February 13, 2013

Fact Box – "REX": World's first complete bionic man

What is Rex ? Researchers have built the world’s first complete bionic man named “Rex”. Rex, which is on display in UK, has the face of a man,...

February 12, 2013

Researchers discovered world's largest prime number

Researchers have discovered the world’s largest prime number which consists of over 17 million digits. The number has now shot up to 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times...

February 12, 2013

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