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Former Speaker of West Bengal Hashim Abdul Halim passes away

✸ CPM veteran and Former West Bengal Assembly Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim passed away in Kolkata. He was 80. Halim had a record of s...

Punjabi now third language in Parliament of Canada

✸ Four years after Punjabi became Canada's third most common language, it has now attained the same status in the country's n...

RBI allows NRIs to subscribe to National Pension System

★ To enable Indians living abroad to access old age income security, Reserve Bank of India allowed non-resident Indians (NRIs) to sub...

Shaktikanta Das nominated on RBI Central Board

✸ The Union Govt. has appointed Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das to the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank.The ...

Najib Shah appointed as the chairman of CBEC

★ Senior IRS officer Najib Shah has been appointed as Chairman of Central Board of Excise and

Renowned Archaeologist VN Misra passes away

✸ Eminent Archaeologist and pre-historian Professor Virendra Nath Misra passed away recently due to old-age related problems. He wa...

Sania-Hingis duo wins Singapore BNP Paribas WTA Finals

✷ Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis has won the 2015 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Women’s double catego...

Facebook to help BSNL set up 100 wi-fi hotspots in rural India

★ Social media giant Facebook has come forward to facilitate state-run BSNL in setting up 100 Wi-Fi sites in rural areas of western a...

Taxation of income from off-shore Rupee Denominated Bonds

✤ The Reserve Bank of India has recently permitted Indian corporates to issue rupee denominated

I&B Ministry now bans documentary on beef titled "Caste on the Menu Card"

✱ The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has banned the screening of a documentary film on beef

33 per cent quota for women in government jobs in MP

★ The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to provide 33 percent reservation to women in government jobs. The decision in this regard...

New Chief Economist of Citi bank India- Samiran Chakraborty

✷ Global banking major Citibank has appointed Samiran Chakraborty as chief economist for India.

5-member review panel appointed by Govt to review research grants offered by UGC

✹ Amid unrelenting protests by students against the scrapping of the non-NET fellowship by the University Grants Commission, the gov...

National Seed Congress begins in Hyderabad

✹ The 8th National Seed Congress 2015 is being organized at Hyderabad in the Pearl City of Telangana at the Hyderabad International...

India, Sri Lanka bilateral naval exercise SLINEX 15 begins

★ The fourth edition of Sri Lanka India bilateral Naval Exercise (SLINEX) began off Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee coast. The exercise is m...