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February 19, 2012 2:10 PM

IBA urges for strict norms on education loans under management quota

The Indian Banks' Association (IBA) has asked its members to impose stricter terms on loans given to students getting admission under the management quota. In a guidance note published on its website, IBA has said that model scheme for the higher studies does not cover admissions under the mana...

February 19, 2012 1:18 PM

Assam urges for special package from Centre

Assam Government urged the Centre to provide special fund as naxal affected state. Apart from it, the state government also requested the Centre to provide special package for around six thousand surrendered militants.Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi discussed these issues with Union Home minister P...

February 18, 2012 9:13 PM

Advertisement rates for Community radio hiked

Advertisement rates for Community radio have been hiked. The rates have been increased from one rupee per second to four. This was announced at the ongoing three day Community Radio Sammelan in New Delhi inaugurated by the Minister of State for Information and broadcasting Minister S.Jagathrakshakan...

February 18, 2012 8:36 PM

Govt calls for strengthening grievance redressal system

Government has called for strengthening the grievance redressal system of the public insurance companies for minimizing trust deficit between the company and the customers. Speaking at a function in New Delhi this evening, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that customer satisfaction must be ens...

February 18, 2012 8:31 PM

Centre clarifies no intention of weakening federal structure of country

Centre today clarified that it has no intention of weakening the federal structure of the country. Maintaining that the decision to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre - NCTC - was an administrative step, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said that the Home Secretary had giv...

February 18, 2012 8:31 PM

Advertisement rates for Community radio hiked

Advertisement rates for Community radio have been hiked. The rates have been increased from one rupee per second to four at par with the FM radio rates.This was announced at the ongoing three day Community Radio Sammelan in New Delhi inaugurated by the Minister of State for Information and broadcast...

February 18, 2012 8:28 PM

Country’s biggest blast furnace will be made operational by July

The country's biggest blast furnace will be made operational at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha by July of this year. This was stated by Chairman of public sector steel giant Steel Authority of India Chandra Sekhar Verma in Bhubaneshwar today. He said the blast furnace will be of 4060 meter ...

February 18, 2012 7:02 PM

Delhi court directs NIA to produce Headley

A Delhi court today directed the National Investigative Agency to produce Pakistani American David Coleman Headley involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack by the 13th of next month. The court also asked the Agency - NIA - to produce his accomplice Tahawwur Rana, LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and master...

February 18, 2012 6:29 PM

Kapil Sibbal: Vacancies for visually challenged persons

Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibbal says, steps have been taken to fill vacancies for visually challenged persons in various departments in his ministry. He was addressing a function of National Federation of Blind in New Delhi today. Expressing Government's commitment t...

February 18, 2012 6:24 PM

Centre clarifies no intention of weakening federal structure of country

Centre today clarified that it has no intention of weakening the federal structure of the country. Maintaining that the decision to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre - NCTC - was an administrative step, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said that the Home Secretary had giv...

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