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Gujarat govt, MasterCard ink MoU for electronic payments
The state government and MasterCard will kick off the collaboration by focusing on a number of strategic areas
NABARD to set up chair in agri business at IIM-Ahmedabad
Chair will promote research in agricultural marketing, enhancing rural livelihood, among other areas
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Centre to provide viability gap funding in smart city projects: Venkaiah Naidu
Also documents on smart cities will be released by the end of the month
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Amul launches 'Milk Card' in collaboration with SBI
The card, which can be used to buy products from Amul parlours, will ease access to the dairy major's range across Ahmedabad
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Entire Kerala villages to be covered by national optical fibre network
Centre plans to connect 250,000 village panchayats with broadband by 2016
KASE, NSDC tie up for skill development
KASE is expanding its presence in the state with various initiatives.
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OpenWorld Money to launch services on Jan 20
The startup would assist customers in choosing the right product besides acting as a market place for financial products and services
Farmers await produce, Chhattisgarh procures 4 mt paddy at MSP
The state government had earlier decided to purchase only 10 quintals of paddy behind every acre of land
Vizag port to construct 2 new berths with Rs 600 cr
The berths would be developed in the PPP mode and the project would be ready in three years
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CBI summon to Mukul BJP's political vendetta: Trinamool
Party secretary-general Partha Chatterjee alleged that the BJP resorted to political vendetta in connivance with the CBI
Lay-off by IT firms matter of serious concern: Labour Minister
Centre will adopt "conciliatory approaches" when labour issues reach it, as these matters are handled by states
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Betting big on Rs 51,000 cr Ganga Action Plan Project: Rajiv Mittal
Interview with Managing Director and CEO of VA Tech Wabag
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Custom duty collection drops by 41% for mines closure
The main reason for negative growth in customs duty collection is because of less export of iron ore from the ports in Odisha due to closure of mines
J&K to introduce new tourism policy to attract investments
Move comes as number of tourists into the valley declines
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Odisha govt, Reliance discoms in tacit deal, says BJP
The ATE order dated November 30 last year directed OERC to recognise the unsustainable distribution loss incurred by Reliance Infrastructure managed discoms and asked the regulator to recover the same
Odisha wants cooperative banks to be exempted from income tax
The state and central cooperative banks were allowed exemption from income tax under section 80P (2)(a)(I) of the Income Tax Act, 1961
Odisha issues resolution to auction mining leases
Last week, the Cabinet decided to dispose off all major mineral leases, captive and non-captive, except coal, through auction
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Alliance with PDF intact, says Rawat
The party had failed to muster a majority in the 2012 assembly elections and existed on the prop of the seven-member PDF
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