TOP - 10 HEADLINES - 16.12.2013 ************************ 1. Union Labour and Employment Minister Sis Ram Ola died at a Gurgaon hospital after a prolonged illness. 2. The government has appointed Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard). 3. FM P Chidambaram and Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath will be part of ministerial delegation, which will participate in World Economic Forum meeting. 4. Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the services sector declined by about 62 per cent year-on-year to $1.36 billion during April-October of the ongoing fiscal. 5. The Japanese government has offered a special loan of $1.5 billion for Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project for a period of 40 years. 6. Investors have put in more than Rs 1.5 lakh crore in various mutual fund schemes in the ongoing financial year, nearly twice the amount pumped in by them in entire 2012-13 fiscal. 7. The government has decided to exempt vessel sharing pacts among shipping companies from the purview of fair trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI). 8. Delhi Police has filed its charge sheet against LeT bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda and three others for allegedly helping in infiltration of Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists. 9. BSE plans to launch interest rate derivatives and equity derivatives with advance systems by January. 10. Ethiopias Atsedu Tsegay and Florence Kiplagat of Kenya won the mens and womens titles, respectively, of the Delhi Half Marathon.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 04:53:14 +0000
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