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Moneylife Digital Team 04 November 2014
Hasmukh Adhia, who was Modi's Prinicipal Secretary in Gujarat for two years, will replace GS Sandhu as Financial Services Secretary   After transferring Arvind Mayaram, the topmost bureaucrat in the Finance Ministry, the Narendra Modi government shifted another top level babu....

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 November 2014
With all the three main parties, BJP, AAP and Congress favouring fresh mandate, the Lt Governor recommended to the President dissolution of the Delhi Assembly   The Union Cabinet is likely to meet later Tuesday apparently to discuss Lt Governor Najeeb Jung’s report recommending...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 November 2014
The probe has found that many such accounts have been 'inherited' by their current owners from their parents, other family members or now-defunct trusts and companies that were set up years ago   Accounts inherited from family members as also from previously-constituted trusts or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 November 2014
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds by the Congress leaders in the acquisition of National Herald by Young Indian   The Delhi High Court on Monday extended till 2nd December, the stay on the trial court order summoning Congress President...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 November 2014
The decision by Vasan brings to end to his 14-year-long association with Congress following the merger of Tamil Manila Congress floated by his father GK Moopanar   Dealing a blow to the struggling Congress, its senior leader and former union minister GK Vasan quit the party and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 November 2014
An enthusiastic Devendra Fadanvis, the new CM of Maharashtra, wants to introduce the Right to Service Act after receiving a ‘vision’ report from the chief secretary. The media is reporting this with equal enthusiasm. However, since 2006, there already is an Act of this kind   Devendra...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 October 2014
Governor Vidyasagar Rao administered the oath to Devendra Fadnavis in the presence of PM Modi, Amit Shah, L K Advani and senior leaders of the BJP and Congress Party in Maharashtra.   Devendra Fadnavis was officially sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, at the Wankhede...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 October 2014
After days of rhetoric and u-turns, Devendra Fadnavis set to become new Maharashtra CM   Devendra Fadnavis was elected the leader of the BJP's legislative party by the party's MLAs at a meeting of the party's newly elected MLAs and senior leaders in Mumbai.   Rajnath Singh as...

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With the Premier Nguyen Dung leading a fifty member trade delegation to India, one can expect improved relations between the two.   Our relations with Vietnam have grown in the last couple of decades, more so in the last two years. Last year, the Vietnam government launched a campaign...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 October 2014
The LG has obtained the President's assent to invite BJP to form the government, but the SC has agreed to hear AAP's petition on merit.   The Supreme Court has pulled up the BJP government at the Centre and the Delhi Lieutenant Governor for delaying the government formation process in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 October 2014
The PM's official Facebook page posted a Diwali photo without the originator's permission and the photographer has gone public   Prime Minster Narendra Modi is known for his crack social media team, but this time it seems to have goofed. The PM's official Facebook page posted a Diwali...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 October 2014
After dithering on revealing names of foreign account holders, government reveals 3 names in the SC   In an affidavit submitted in the Supreme Court today, the government revealed 3 names of Swiss bank account holders.   TV reports said the three names were, Pradip Burman,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 October 2014
In a ceremony attended by BJP big guns and oppositions leaders, the new CM of Haryana was sworn in on Sunday.   Manohar Lal Khattar, who began joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1977 at the age of 24, was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Haryana on Sunday. Khattar is...

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A notification, which has still not been put up on the Maharashtra government’s website and only appears on the ACB portal, declares ACB out of ambit of RTI Act. Whom was the Congress-NCP government trying to save and why?   When the central or the state government finds some...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 October 2014
The fleet of about 200 twin-engine Sukhoi-30 would be back in air only when they are cleared by the technical review   India has grounded its entire fleet of Sukhoi-30 and each aircraft is undergoing a thorough technical check following a recent crash near Pune.   The fleet of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 October 2014
As against 21% in 2009, Congress got a vote share of 17.9% this time while its seat tally dropped hugely to 42 from 82 in Maharashtra assembly polls   The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have fallen short of the majority mark in Maharashtra but its vote share nearly doubled in the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 October 2014
Indian economy is headed in to a goldilocks period of higher growth and lower inflation in 2015, says Nomura in a research note   Fuel reforms are a very important signal of the Indian government's commitment to tough economic reforms. They will encourage more competition and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 October 2014
Jayalalitha gets interim bail from Supreme Court   The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Tamil Nadu’s former Chief Minster J Jayalalitha. Earlier, Jayalalithaa was denied bail by the Karnataka High Court. She is in jail following her conviction in a disproportionate...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 October 2014
Mayaram, the topmost bureaucrat in the Finance Ministry is replaced by Rajiv Mehrishi, the top bureaucrat from Rajasthan   In a major re-shuffle of top-level babus, the Narendra Modi government on Thursday transferred Arvind Mayaram from finance ministry to tourism ministry. Mayaram,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 October 2014
The average voter turnout in the assembly elections in Maharashtra was over 60% while for Haryana it was above 72%. There were some incidents of EVM malfunctioning in both states   Maharashtra witnessed brisk polling as the state went to polls Wednesday to elect a new government, with...

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