India Decides to Continue Agriculture Export Promotion Plan Scheme for 12th...
New Delhi (ABC Live):The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for continuation of the Agriculture Export Promotion Plan Scheme of the...
View ArticleCBI Arrests SBI Deputy Managing Director for Bribery in Sanctioning Corporate...
New Delhi , 25.11.2013(ABC Live):The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a former Assistant General Manager of State Bank of India in an alleged bribery case. A case was registered U/s 120 B...
View ArticleIAEA Begins Review of Japan’s Efforts,Plans to Decommission Fukushima Daiichi...
Geneva (ABC Live):A team of IAEA experts today began a review of Japan’s efforts and plans to decommission TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Requested by the government of Japan, the...
View ArticleFAO to Observe 2014 As International Year of Family Farming
Rome (ABC Live):The International Year of Family Farming 2014 was officially launched on 22 November 2013, at UN Headquarters in New York. The main purpose of the event is to present the general...
View ArticleNHRC Orders Maharashtra Government to Arrest and Produce Pune Police...
New Delhi, 25th November, 2013 (ABC Live):The National Human Rights Commission has taken a serious view of the casual and mechanical approach adopted by the Commissioner of Police, Pune, Maharashtra,...
View ArticleCoal India to Start 126 New Projects to Hike India Coal Production
New Delhi (ABC Live):Coal India Limited(CIL) has identified new projects to take up during the 12th Plan period with an estimated capacity of 438.04 MT. Out of these 60 projects are likely to...
View ArticleUN General Assembly Resolves to Increase Investment in Agriculture Rural...
New York (ABC Live): The General Assembly would stress the need to increase investment in agriculture and rural development, including by giving technical and financial aid to least developed and net...
View ArticleUN Calls Its Members Countries to Implement Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
New York (ABC Live): The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved 18 draft resolutions today, including one on “The right to privacy in the digital age”. “Through this resolution,...
View ArticleTata Sons Limited Withdraws Its Application for New Bank Licence
MUMBAI (ABC Live): The Reserve Bank of India has today communicated that Tata Sons Limited has withdrawn its application made on July 1, 2013 for a new bank licence. The company has indicated that its...
View ArticleRBI to Auction 14 Day Term Repo Variable Rate for Rs 38,500 Crore
Mumbai (ABC Live): The Reserve Bank of India will conduct a 14 day term repo variable rate auction for a notified amount of ` 38,500 crore on November 29, 2013 (Friday). The auction will be conducted...
View ArticleIndia Approves Scientific deep Drilling in the Koyna Intra-Plate Seismic Zone
Mumbai (ABC Live):The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal to undertake scientific deep drilling in the Koyna intra-plate seismic zone, in Maharashtra. The total cost of the...
View ArticleTRAI Releases Recommendations on Monopoly in Cable TV Services
New Delhi (ABC Live):The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released its recommendations on ‘Monopoly/ Market dominance in Cable TV services’. The salient features of the recommendations...
View ArticleTRAI Releases Amended Telecommunication Tariff Order 2013 for Mobile Banking...
New Delhi (ABC Live):Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the Telecommunication Tariff (Fifty Sixth Amendment) Order, 2013 prescribing a ceiling tariff for the use of USSD for...
View ArticleIndia Extends Validity of Central Order No. S.O.2968 By One Year
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal for extending the validity of the Central Order No. S.O.2968 (E) dated 20.12.2012 for a further period of one year that is from 1st...
View ArticleWHO Recommends Breastfeeding for Saving Babies Lives in Typhoon Haiyan
Manila, Philippines(ABC Live): – UNICEF and WHO today called on those involved in the response to the Philippines’ Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) disaster to promote and protect breastfeeding to avoid...
View ArticleJapan Houses World Largest Operational Solar Power Plant
Tokyo (ABC Live): The Japan has privilege to have world largest megawatt-solar power plant, located in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan and started production of clean energy of 70 megawatt on...
View ArticlePower Grid Corporation of India to Offer Follow-on Public Offer
Mumbai (ABC Live): The Power Grid Corporation of India (POWERGRID) is coming up with a Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) which includes 13 per cent of fresh issue of shares and 4 per cent disinvestment of...
View ArticleIndia Sow Rabi Crops in 395.87 Lakh Hectare
New Delhi (ABC Live):The total rabi sown area in India, as per reports received from States, during the week ending 29.11.2013 stands at 395.87 lakh hectare as compared to 374.87 lakh hectare at this...
View ArticleIndia Exempts IEC Code Holder Rice, Edible Oils Exporters from Essential...
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Union Cabinet yesterday approved exemption to exporters having IEC Code issued by DGFT from the purview of stock holding limits under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 with...
View ArticleRBI Issues Revised Directions FDI + FII Limits in Credit Information Companies
Mumbai (ABC Live): At present, investments, directly or indirectly by any person, whether resident or otherwise are limited to 10% of the equity capital of a Credit Information Company (CIC). However,...
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