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The meeting was attended by Sebi executive director Usha Narayanan, Sebi wholetime member Prashant Saran and Reserve Bank chief general manager foreign exchange department Salim Gangadaran among others.
Lawyers of Kannada actress Maria Susairaj, who was arrested for allegedly murdering television producer Neeraj Grover in May 2008, on Monday withdrew from the case saying were "greatly disturbed" over allegations that they had threatened a prosecution witness.
After a rousing tour to the United Nations, the members of the Sulabh International called on President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan on Friday.
Legendary P T Usha's protege Tintu Luka stole the limelight on the first day of the Asian All-Star Athletics meet with a personal best timing to win the gold medal in women's 800 metres, in Delhi, on Thursday. Luka bagged the gold with an effort of 2 minutes 01.24 seconds and bettered her earlier best of 2:01.61, which she clocked in May at the National Open in Kochi.
A high level group constituted by the Reserve Bank of India has recommended enhancing security features on currency notes and installation of notes-sorting machines among other steps to counter the rise in circulation of fake notes.
President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to Naidu.
After promoting products ranging from jewellery, clothes and apartments, Malayalam superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal are all set to wear new caps as brand ambassadors for sports in Kerala. While Mammootty has been made brand ambassador of the newly launched Kerala Volleyball League (KVL), Mohanlal has been roped in by the Kerala Athletics Federation to promote athletics.
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday said that the Budget 20010-11 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is in line with the path of fiscal consolidation and economic revival.
Loans to wilful defaults are said to be a little over Rs 1 lakh crore.
Mammootty, who has had a mediocre run at the box office with his past few films hopes to bounce back with Gangster.
India football team captain Baichung Bhutia has made a defamation claim of Rs 1 crore against Mohun Bagan for "damaging his reputation". The claim was made before the arbitrator appointed by the AIFF to decide on the player's suspension.
Acceding to the demand of banks, the Reserve Bank of India on Friday deferred the date of implementation of the proposed base rate model to July 1 and also exempted three category of loans from the new system.
The Malayalam television industry is currently embroiled in controversies surrounding satellite rights of films.
A pall of gloom descended on the airport as the plane landed.
The friction with the political class is not only about interest rates and monetary policy. While the government often spoke freely about its discomfiture, the RBI had to be careful even in its response to the government as any loose statement would affect the markets.
Kingfisher Airlines has defaulted on loans of over Rs 9,400 crore obtained from various banks.
A passenger, who arrived at the Bengaluru International Airport from Netherlands with suspected symptoms of the H1N1 flu, has been quarantined, a top health official said on Monday. "The passenger, who arrived at BIA from Netherlands via Frankfurt late on Sunday night, has been quarantined at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases," Usha Vasunkar, director of Health & Family Welfare Services, said. The man's throat culture samples have been sent for further tests.
Vacancies for management students in Maharashtra.
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The 10-day Ganesh festival began on Saturday under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, with devotees restricting celebrations to their homes and using online platforms to get 'darshan' of the Lord at temples, amid strict COVID-19 restrictions imposed by governments.
The long wait for a symbol of the rupee is expected to end by March next year. A committee headed by Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Usha Thorat has shortlisted five symbols from 4,000 entries for a public competition to select a design for the symbol.
RBI governor D Subbarao, in the second quarterly review of the monetary policy in October, had said there is need to increase provisioning against bad assets to not less than 70 per cent by September 2010.
BJD managed to retain 112 seats securing another term for Patnaik in the CM chair.
Indian women boxers made a resounding start at the third Indoor Asian Games with L Sarita Devi (54kg) and N Usha (57kg) advancing to the medal rounds of the event with thumping wins in their respective quarterfinal bouts in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Saturday.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan launched the autobiography of tennis star Sania Mirza titled Ace Against Odds in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
In Jalandhar, Civil Surgeon Dr S S Walia said a student of Guru Amar Dass Public School has been found positive for swine flu and admitted to a Delhi hospital.
India football captain Baichung Bhutia, who was handed a six-month suspension by Mohun Bagan on Monday for breach of rules, has appointed Usha Nath Banerjee as his legal counsel to challenge the club's decision.
Reserve Bank of India regional director J Sadakkadulla on Thursday said that a high-level committee headed by RBI Deputy Governor Usha Thorat had recommended installing of note sorting machines (NSMs) in all bank branches in a phased manner and has asked the banks to give a road map to the RBI to achieve this task.
The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday asked banks to review their loan policy towards micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), badly hit by the economic slowdown.
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A SIT has begun process to freeze bank accounts of arrested accused in the Bihar toppers scam. M I Khan/Rediff.com reports from Patna.
RBI in its monetary policy forecasts the economy would grow at 6 per cent with an upward bias this fiscal, a rate that's in tandem with the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan's projection of 6 to 6.5 per cent.
India's most decorated woman boxer MC Mary Kom today rued that the sport is as good as "dead in India" because there has been no competition happening with national association in a limbo. "Boxing in India is almost dead. There are no major competitions held for the past two years in India. I miss tears welling up in my eyes when I see the Indian flag going up after I had won a medal in an international event," Mary Kom said at inauguration of Ultimate Boxing Championship organised by Phoenix Market City in Bengaluru.
It was a quirk of fate that made a Hyderabad-based advocate hire a cab instead of taking a local train to suburban Kandivali as the taxi blew up mid-way killing him in a powerful bomb blast in the 26/11 attack, a witness told the trial court on Friday.
Gokarn was the first Indian central banker who regularised warnings to the government, through the monetary policy statement, on the need to reduce fiscal deficit.
HIN1 virus deaths continued unabated with a 44-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man succumbing to the virus in Delhi and Bangalore, pushing the toll to 76 as 137 more contracted the infection across the country.
'Traders have been the worst hit because of the government's policies, but for some unknown reason, many continue to support the BJP.'
Multinational mobile companies such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and LG, who dominate the mobile handset space with over 75 per cent of the market share, might face a new challenge. This time it's not from Chinese unbranded products, which have been flooding the Indian market.
