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| Canara Bank opens 104 branches | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Bangalore-based public sector lender Canara Bank today opened 104 new branches across the country to mark the 104th anniversary of the bank. The bank was founded on November 19, 1906, in Mangalore. The bank aims to scale up the number of its branches across India from 2966 to 3,000 branches by December 2009. The 104 branches were inaugurated by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi. |
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| EGoM on 3G auction to meet today | 19-NOV-09 |
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| The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on the auction of third generation (3G) spectrum will meet tomorrow to discuss the vacation of spectrum by defence forces. |
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| Air India to get Rs 400 cr in Jan | 18-NOV-09 |
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| National Aviation Company Ltd, which runs Air India, will receive a government grant in the form of equity infusion of Rs 400 crore by January. |
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| 'NSDC will be like a private equity fund' | 13-NOV-09 |
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| Last month, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) — a Rs10-crore, 51:49 private-public partnership (PPP) enterprise with a mandate to skill 30 per cent of an overall target of 500 million people by 2022. The NSDC, in which industry associations have partly contributed to the private sector’s share, has been described as a “unique” PPP. |
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| Haryana urges Centre to defer GST | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Haryana, which became the poineer state in launching VAT (value added tax) in the country, needs more time to prepare itself for the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST). |
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| Bypoll results show people want TMC-Cong alliance | 12-NOV-09 |
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| The results of the 10 assembly by-elections in West Bengal once again proved that the people wanted the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance and the ruling Left Front was losing popularity, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here today. |
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| Pranab Mukherjee says operations at Lalgarh to continue | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's reservations over anti-Naxalite operations in Paschim Medinipur district notwithstanding, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the drive to flush out Naxalites will continue till the situation was brought under control. |
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| Pranab Mukherjee calls for strengthening PDS | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked the state governments to strengthen public distribution system in view of sustained price rise of essential commodities. |
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| India Eco Summit: FM sees 9-10% growth in FY13 | 10-NOV-09 |
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| “We can expect over 7 per cent growth in 2010-11. After the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2011), we may be able to reach that magical figure,” Mukherjee said at the India Economic Summit today. |
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