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Topic: November 2012

The 'NH-4 Bank' plans to become pan-India player

Which Bank in India is often referred to as the ‘NH-4’ Bank ? The Ratnakar Bank is often referred to as  the ‘ NH4 Bank’ in the banking...

December 1, 2012

19 RRBs merged into 8; now 71 left

The government has merged 19 Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) into 8 entities. All this happened in spite of reservations by RBI. The Govt plans to merge more RRBs...

December 1, 2012

PPP in railways allowed

The government has allowed a private investment policy in the railways. The performance of Railways in PPP (Public-Private Partnership) projects has been dismal. Now, the Govt will try...

November 29, 2012

Tata Sons to offload a part of its 60 per cent stake in direct-to-home Tata Sky Ltd

Tata Sons, a holding company of the Tata Group has 60% stake in the DTH (Direct-To-Home) Tata Sky Ltd. DTH (Direct-To-Home) Tata Sky Ltd is loss-making company and...

November 29, 2012

China’s new passport map falsely includes AP, Aksai Chin as part of China

Another game by China: The watermark on fresh launched e-passports by China falsely depict Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in J&K as parts of China. Reaction from India:...

November 29, 2012

Anti-Piracy Scheme in Audio-Visual Sector gets approval by Central Govt

Under the 12th five year plan, the Union government has approved a scheme by Information & Broadcasting Ministry for carrying out an anti-piracy initiative in the audio-visual sector....

November 29, 2012

Maldives cancels GMR’s $511m airport project

The Maldives government has terminated a USD 511 million contract with Indian infrastructure firm GMR for the development and operation of the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (now Velana...

November 29, 2012

Ms Chitra Ramakrishna to be new CEO & MD of NSE

Leading bourse National Stock Exchange (NSE) announced Ms Chitra Ramakrishna as its new MD and CEO with effect from 1 April, 2013. At present only two of the...

November 29, 2012

200 nations meeting in Doha for talks on global warming

Around 200 nations are meeting in Qatar capital Doha for the annual talks over global warming. The twenty years old talks over reducing greenhouse gas emissions have not...

November 29, 2012

8th meeting of the India-UK Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter terrorism held in New Delhi

The 8th meeting of the India-UK Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter terrorism was held in New Delhi. Both India and UK shared their respective threat assessments and...

November 29, 2012

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