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- The foreign investment limit in Public Sector Units (PSU) refineries has been raised from 26% to 49%
- 00% FDI in aircraft maintenance and repair operations has also been allowed
- India has also allowed 100% FDI in mining of titanium, a mineral which is abundant in India.
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- Mr. Nehchal Sandhu
- Mr. P.K. Mehta
- Dr. Amrita Patel
- Mr. S. Balasubramanian
- Mr. ADI GODREJ
- Tata Chemicals buys British salt
- Reliance Power and Reliance Natural Resources merger
- Abbotts acquisition of Piramal healthcare solutions
- GTL Infrastructure acquisition of Aircel towers
- ICICI Bank buys Bank of Rajasthan
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He took over the office from Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia, who retired after serving the Supreme Court for two and a half year. 64 year old Altamas Kabir will be in the office for a period of nine months, from 29 September 2012 to 18 July 2013. His oath ceremony was conducted at the ceremony held at Ashoka Hall of Rastrapati Bhawan. The Judge can be removed from India on certain ground that includes incapacity to hold the office or proven misbehavior. They can be removed only after the resolution of both the houses of Indian Parliament that is supported by the majority of two-third of the members voting and present. The two judges against whom the proceeding was initiated: 1. V Ramaswami in 1993 was the first judge against whom the proceedings were initiated 2. Soumitra Sen in 2011 was the second judge against whom these proceedings were initiated imp as Soumtira Sen case happened in 2011 Arabic on 10 October 2012 made its official debut among one of the Languages at Pope
he only Chief Justice, who has served as the acting President of India Sir Mohammad Hidayatullah, who served the nation as eleventh CJI (17 December 1905 - 18 September 1992) has also served as the acting President of India being an ex-officio CJI from 20 July 1969 to 24 August 1969, after Dr. Zakir Hussain died as a president in office and the then Vice-President V.V. Giri resigned from the post of acting President to participate in the Presidential Election. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on 1 October 2012 between Indian and Austria to strengthen the long-term bilateral cooperation and relationship on rail and road infrastructure. The MoU was signed in between C.P. Joshi- the Minister of Railways and Road Transport of India and Highways and the Doris Burse-the Federal Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology of Austria during her visit to India. Quote Reply . Like . Share  1
World bank and the Government of India on 5 October 2012 signed a loan agreement of 500 Million US Dollar for Secondary Education Project named Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA). What is Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan? Like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the Department of School Education and Literacy of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under Government of India is launching Rastriya Madhyamic Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) with an aim to achieve Universal Access and Quality Secondary Education. Under Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan, the responsibility to develop Secondary- Education Management Information system (SE-MIS) is given to the Department of Educational Planning, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi. The rating agency, Moody's Investors Services on 26 September 2012 in its Outlook for India expected stability due to the newly announced reforms (FDI & hike in petrol rates). It believed that these reforms will help India in pairing up of the fiscal deficits. Indian sovereign credit rating outlook was kept by the agency at Baa3 for the medium term. Whereas, the outlook to India by the rating agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor’s was negative, where the two agencies showed concerns towards the pace of reforms going on in India along with the economic downfall. The most outstanding demonstrations of its own kind in Khandawa district of Madhya Pradesh named Jal Satyagraha continued for 17 days at Omkareshwar Dam Project came to an end on 10 September 2012. Across 1000 acres of cultivatable land has been submerged into water with at least 60 odd villages that will not be visible in the map of India any more. The Satygrahis demanded land for the land compensation following the ruling of Supreme Court. The Land Acquisition Bill was cleared on 16 October 2012 by a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. It is going to be presented to the Cabinet this month The bill was cleared after three rounds of vigorous debate with few changes from the version presented to the Union Cabinet in September 2012. Pranab Mukherjee, the Hon’ble President of India approved new set of Protocols for addressing, the dignitaries inside and outside the country. Mukherjee also asked the authorities to organise government functions within the premises of Rastrapati Bhawan, this came out of his concern to the inconvenience caused to the public and police during his movement. he State Health Ministry of Arunachal Pradesh launched Rashtriya Aarogya Nidhi scheme in Itanagar on 14 September 2012. The scheme which is under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, provides financial assistance upto 1.5 lakh rupees to BPL patients suffering from life threatening diseases in the form of a one time grant. In the event of the treatment cost exceeding 1.5 lakh rupees, the patients can avail the assistance from the Central Rashtriya Aarogya Nidhi scheme. Imp points 1)dere are 21 members in APEC--Asia Pacific Economic Co 2)Vijay L Kelkar is the chairman of 13th finance commission 3)Future of India is written by--Bimal jalan 4)Vidya Balan is the brand ambassador of Nirmal Bharat yatra()Sanitation Drive 5)Asihwarya rai appointed as International Goodwill Ambassador 6)Aung San Sui Kyi receives US congress highest honour for 2012. 7)China's Wen Xia Yu is Miss World-2012 latest news regarding FDI 1)The Government of India on 20 September 2012 hiked the foreign investment cap for the broadcasting service providers to 74 percent. The registered hike in foreign investment cap is for service providers of Direct to Home (DTH), modernized cable network and mobile television. This move of the government will allow the global players in acquiring major stakes in the broadcasting companies. Before his decision was passed, the eligibility of DTH and multi-system cable operators to make foreign investment was limited to 49 percent only. 2)The Union Government on 4 October 2012 approved the Companies Bill, 2011 and Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill, moving with its proposal to hike the foreign investment in the insurance sector to 49 percent from the present 26 percent with also opening up the pension sector for FDI 3)The Union Government of India approved fourteen foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals, which would bring in the capital inflow of 113.35 Crore Rupees. The major portion of 81.05 crore Rupees investments accounts to the three clearances made in the Pharmaceutical Sector. Approval of these proposals was made in accordance to recommendations made by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) during the meeting held on 18 September 2012. The FIPB is headed by Arvind Mayaram, the Secretary of Department of Economic Affairs (DEA). As per the latest global ranking compiled and published by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) in August 2012, the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) become the world’s largest bourse in terms of the number of trades in equity segment for the first six months of 2012. A total of 735474 trades took place in the equity segment of NSE in the January-June period of 2012, making it the world’s largest exchange on this parameter. NSE was followed by NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX at the second and the third positions. According to data released by Ministry of Statistics of India on 1 June 2012, Bihar emerged as the state with highest economic growth rate in the country. The state which until recently was synonymous with poverty, recorded an impressive 13.1 per cent growth in 2011-12. Bihar topped the list for second consecutive year. The state’s economy even surpassed the Punjab on the back of four years of double-digit growth. The state was closely followed by Delhi and Puducherry. Chhattisgadh and Goa were the other two states in the list of top five states. Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, the two highly industrialized states registered the growth of 9.4 per cent and 9.1 per cent respectively in the fiscal year 2011-12. Punjab, leading food grain producing state of India, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, both the heart of the IT sector of the country, and Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state, registered growth of 6.5% in 2011-12, lower than India's GDP growth. India has liberalized foreign investment regulations in key sectors, opening up commodity exchanges, credit information services and aircraft maintenance operations. The foreign investment limit in Public Sector Units (PSU) refineries has been raised from 26% to 49%. An additional sweetener is that the mandatory disinvestment clause within five years has been done away with. FDI in Civil aviation up to 74% will now be allowed through the automatic route for non-scheduled and cargo airlines, as also for ground handling activities.
India has decided to allow 26% FDI and 23% FII investments in commodity exchanges, subject to the proviso that no single entity will hold more than 5% of the stake. Sectors like credit information companies, industrial parks and construction and development projects have also been opened up to more foreign investment. Also keeping India's civilian nuclear ambitions in mind, India has also allowed 100% FDI in mining of titanium, a mineral which is abundant in India. A biodiversity hotspot is a region with a significant reservoir of biodiversity that is under threat from humans.
One more point to remember Western Ghats r also added recently to the World Heritage Sites. In total we have 14 wonders in the world..bifurcated into 2 sections as Ancient and Modern Ancient-- 1)Great Pyramid of Giza---Egypt--still present 2)Hanging Gardens of Babylon---Babylon---Destruction due to earthquake 3)Temple of Artemis at Ephesus--Greeks--Destruction due to Arson 4)Statue of Zeus at Olympia--Greeks---Dismantled and Arsoned 5)Mausoleum at Halicarnassus--Greeks--Erathquake 6)Colossus of Rhodes--Greeks--Earthquake 7)Lighthouse of Alexandria--Egypt/Greeks----Erathquake Modern
2)Chichen Itza--Mexico 3)Christ the Redeemer--Brazil 4)Colosseum--Itlay 5)great wall of china--China 6)Machu Picchu--Peru 7)Petra—Jordan Important Heads(Guys correct me if derez any latest changes) Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission. Mr. Vinod Rai : Comptroller and Auditor-General of India. Prof. D. P. Agrawal: Chairman, UPSC. Mr. Nehchal Sandhu: Director, IB. Mr. A. P. Singh: Director, CBI. Mr. Sanjeev Tripathi: Director, Research and Analysis Wing. Mr. R. K. Medhekar : Director-General, NSG. Mr. Vijay Kumar : Director-General, CRPF. Mr. U. K. Bansal : Director-General, Border Security Force (BSF). Mr. Rajiv : Director-General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Mr. P.K. Mehta: Director-General, Railway Protection Force. Mr. Ranjit Sinha: Director-General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police. Mr. Pranay Sahay : Director-General, Sashastra Seema Bal. Vice-Admiral M. P. Muralidharan: Director-General, Indian Coast Guard Mr. K. Radhakrishnan: Chairman, Space Commission and ISRO. Mr. Srikumar Banerjee : Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept. of Atomic Energy. Dr. Amrita Patel: Chairperson, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). Economy related imp heads Mr. U. K. Sinha: Chairman, Securities & Exchange Board of India. Mr. Prakash Bakshi: Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). Mr. Pratip Chaudhuri : Chairman, SBI. Mr. V. P. Shetty : Chairman, IDBI. Mr. S. Balasubramanian : Chairman, Company Law Board. Mr. T. S. Vijayan : Chairman, LIC Mr. R. V. Kanoria : President, FICCI. Mr. J. S. Sarma: Chairman, TRAI Mr. R. N. Das : Director, Enforcement Directorate. Mr. Yogesh Agarwal: Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority. Mr. Pradeep Kumar: Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). Mr. ADI GODREJ: President, CII. Mr. Dilip Modi : President, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Mr. Ratan Tata : Chairman, Investment Commission. UPDATE AS ON 19TH NOV 2012 Anil Agarwal is ET's Business Leader of Year This year, the roll of honour stretches quite literally from copper to cheese, from internet access to investment banking. The jury for The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence 2012 met this week in Mumbai to anoint the winners of India's biggest, most-anticipated business awards. The Business Leader Award for the year 2012 goes to Anil Agarwal, chairman, Vedanta Resources. A true rags-to-riches success story, Agarwal started out as a trader of scrap metals, and today runs a global natural resources conglomerate, which successfully completed a major acquisition - that of Cairn India. The Company of the Year for 2012 goes to HDFC Bank, India's most valuable bank by market capitalization, a milestone that it achieved. 
Navratna was the title given originally to nine Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) identified by the Government of India in 1997 as "public sector companies that have comparative advantages", giving them greater autonomy to compete in the global market so as to "support [them] in their drive to become global giants".[1] The number of PSEs having Navratna status has been raised to 16,[2] the most recent addition being Oil India Limited. PSU companies are divided into three categories: Maharatna Navratna Miniratna CPSEs Category I Category II List of naratnas Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Bharat Electronics Limited Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited National Aluminium Company Limited National Mineral Development Corporation Limited Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited Oil India Limited Power Finance Corporation Limited Power Grid Corporation of India Limited Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited Rural Electrification Corporation Limited Shipping Corporation of India Limited GAIL (India) Limited Tata Chemicals buys British salt Tata Chemicals bought British Salt; a UK based white salt producing company for about US $ 13 billion. The acquisition gives Tata access to very strong brine supplies and also access to British Salts facilities as it produces about 800,000 tons of pure white salt every year Reliance Power and Reliance Natural Resources merger This deal was valued at US $11 billion and turned out to be one of the biggest deals of the year. It eased out the path for Reliance power to get natural gas for its power projects Airtels acquisition of Zain in Africa Airtel acquired Zain at about US $ 10.7 billion to become the third biggest telecom major in the world. Since Zain is one of the biggest players in Africa covering over 15 countries, Airtels acquisition gave it the opportunity to establish its base in one of the most important markets in the coming decade Abbotts acquisition of Piramal healthcare solutions Abbott acquired Piramal healthcare solutions at US $ 3.72 billion which was 9 times its sales. Though the valuation of this deal made Piramals take this move, Abbott benefited greatly by moving to leadership position in the Indian market GTL Infrastructure acquisition of Aircel towers This acquisition was worth about US $ 1.8 billion and brought GTL Infrastructure to the third position in terms of number of mobile towers 33000. The money generated gave Aircel the funds for expansion throughout the country and also for rolling out its 3G services ICICI Bank buys Bank of Rajasthan This merger between the two for a price of Rs 3000 cr would help ICICI improve its market share in northern as well as western India JSW and Ispat Ki Kahani Jindal Steel Works acquired 41% stake at Rs 2,157 cr in Ispat Industries to make it the largest steel producer in the country. This move would also help Ispat return to profitability with time Directory: attachments attachments -> A unified Modeling Approach to Climate System Prediction James Hurrell* 1, Gerald A. Meehl 1, David Bader 2 Download 406.54 Kb. Share with your friends:
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