Nearly 50 years after his death, India's first President Dr Rajendra Prasad's saving account has been kept alive by a public sector bank in Patna in a unique remembrance -- and the balance is Rs 1,813.
A few years back I visited one of the nationalised banks to open a public provident fund (PPF) account for one of my cousins. And as you will see, I found more hurdles on my way than solutions.
A Mumbai court has issued a letter of request to a Swiss court to allow income tax authorities to probe accounts of stud-farm owner Hasan Ali, who is alleged to have deposited billions of dollars there.
"According to the global financial services major, though CAD at 3.2 per cent of GDP is significantly lower than the 4.8 per cent it registered in fiscal year 2012-13 ", it still remains higher than the 2.4 per cent of GDP that we estimate as the optimal current account deficit".
They want govt to raise excise duty and service tax rates, cut subsidies.
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Citigroup revised CAD estimates for financial year 2013 to 4.7 per cent from 4 per cent of GDP after incorporating the latest trade and GDP data, and said CAD is likely to stay elevated in financial year 2014 as well.
So, with the number of free transactions being limited, the account holder needs to prioritise his visits to the bank or ATMs.
Biden stressed over "not fighting a third World War in Ukraine" but avowed sending an "unmistakable message that we will defend every inch of NATO territory".
Gulliver had about $7.6 million pounds in a Swiss account in 2007.
Employees Provident Fund Organisation is likely to issue permanent account numbers to employees.
Three doctors were allegedly assaulted by the family members of a patient at a private hospital in northwest Delhi's Pitampura after a newborn baby died during a caesarean procedure, police said on Thursday.
Some persons with accounts in a Swiss bank have paid taxes amounting to about Rs 180 crore so far, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said in Parliament. He did not disclose any name.
Defending champions Real Madrid, though, left it late to avoid a defeat at Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.
Top Maoist leader Milind Teltumbde was among the 26 Maoists killed in an encounter with police in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, a senior police official said on Sunday.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said all Indian nationals left Kyiv on Tuesday after the Indian embassy issued an advisory, asking them to get out of the Ukrainian capital urgently.
'You can either sulk and blame your destiny or you can choose to handle the situation with positivity.'
An FIR had been registered against Prabhu at Colaba police station in south Mumbai under section 153 B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) of the Indian Penal Code.
Hemmed in by barricades and police and paramilitary swarming all over the place, the troubled Jahangirpuri on Friday showed signs of returning to normalcy, with the local peace committee calling for communal harmony and members of the warring communities embracing each other, agreeing to let bygones be bygones.
This will allow the bank's customers to access funds from virtually any city or town in the country. The NFS is India's largest domestic network with over 30,000 ATMs across the country and Standard Chartered's customers will now have wider coverage of ATMs available to them.
The government has sent notices to 18 Indians who have stashed away unaccounted money in Liechestein's LGT Bank, asking them to pay Rs 24.66 crore (Rs 246.6 million) as taxes.
Yashwant Sinha is currently on a three-day visit to Washington to hold meetings with the think-tank, members of the Indian Diaspora, Congressmen and officials of the Obama Administration.
A convoy with military equipment of the Russian southern military district units crossed the Crimean bridge on the way to the places of permanent deployment following the planned drills in Crimea, the Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday.
The two leaders discussed the safe evacuation of Indian nationals from the conflict areas.
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Close on the heels of one per cent cut in interest rate on small savings scheme and PPF in the Union Budget, the Reserve Bank of India announced on Friday a 0.5 per cent reduction in interest rate on savings account to 3.5 per cent effective Saturday
"We appeal to the officials of past governments to return to their country as we will give them full protection of their lives. We are faced with the huge task of rebuilding and reconstruction of war-ravaged Afghanistan," he said.
The Bombay high court on Friday ordered the release of Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion) deposited by Jet Airways in escrow account for acquiring Air Sahara.
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The medical equipment and other supplies were brought to Delhi in a C-5M Super Galaxy, one of the largest strategic airlift aircraft of the US Air Force.
After wooing the urban poor here with its 'One Rupee Bank' account, State Bank of India is now aggressively targeting the crorepatis.
'This, together with Chinese revisionism, will constitute the major test of the international system.'
If bank and service provider are not compliant, pay manually, or give standing instruction linked to bank a/c, suggests Bindisha Sarang.
"Numerous rounds of talks have taken place with the Chinese counterparts to deescalate the situation without compromising on India's stand of 'complete disengagement and immediate restoration of status quo ante'," the defence ministry said.
A total of 168 people, including 107 Indians and 23 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, were flown from Kabul to the Hindon airbase in a C-17 heavy-lift military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF).
"I have earlier appeared for the inquiry five times. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had filed a C-summary report in a Pune Court that there is no truth in the allegations and the case be closed," he said.
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