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RBI cancels registration of 22 NBFCs

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled registration of 22 non-banking finance companies (NBFCs)
including Amazon Capital and Mascot Commerce.

2. Swavalamban subscribers can switch to APY: PFRDA

Subscribers of micro-pension scheme Swavalamban, which closes on March 31, can switch to the Atal
Pension Yojana (APY) and retain the governments co-contribution.

Under the scheme, the government contributes Rs 1,000 per year to each NPS account for the first four
years.

3. Boost for e-commerce as Centre permits 100 per cent FDI in online market places

The government permitted 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) under the automatic route for retail
trading, or B2C (business-to-consumer) transactions, in the marketplace model of e-commerce.

4. Gujarat to set up countrys first organic farming university

In 2016-17 state annual budget; state government has allocated a fund of 10 crore rupees towards the
university. It also took steps like setting up of a cell to implement its new organic farming policy.

5. ADB, USAID to assist developing Solar parks in India

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Asian Development Banktoday signed a pact
for providing Rs 5,681 crore (USD 848 million) to develop solar parks across India, as part of clean
energy infrastructure in the country.

6. ONGC to invest $5 billion to develop KG basin deepwater block

The ONGC board has approved a $ 5.076-billion field development plan for a portion of its deepwater oil
and gas block in the Krishna-Godavari basin on the east coast.

7. Indian-American appointed as President, CEO of Bank of the West

Indian-American Nandita Bakshi has been appointed the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Bank of the West, a subsidiary unit of French banking giant BNP Paribas.

8. Jeff Bezos top Fortunes Greatest Leaders List

9. Indias forex reserves reach all time high

Indias forex reserves jumped by $2.5 billion to reach a record high at $355.9 billion for the week that
ended on March 18, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday in its weekly statistical report.

The previous high stood at $355.4 billion reported on June 27 of last year

10. New BRICS-supported bank approves first loans

A new multilateral lender set up by the BRICS nations has approved its first set of loans valued at 811
million US dollars for renewable energy projects in four of its member countries.

According to a statement, the first group of projects approved by the banks board are in the area of green
and renewable energy.

11. Centre to increase monthly minimum wages to 10,000 rupees for contract labourers

Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has said that the government has decided to bring out an
executive order to increase minimum wages to 10,000 rupees per month for contract labourers across the
country.

12. Jharkhand Government launches Bhimrao Ambedkar Awas Yojana for widows
 It was launched by Chief Minister Raghubar Das on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of Dr. B R
Ambedkar.

The scheme (Yojana) aims at building 11000 units (houses) for widows in 2016-17 financial year with the
budgetary allocation of 80 crore rupees.

Under it, beneficiaries would get an amount of 75000 rupees to build a house in hilly terrains districts and
70000 rupees in plains area.

13. India offers to invest $20 billion in oil and other projects in Iran

India has offered to invest up to $20 billion in oil, petrochemicals and fertiliser projects in joint ventures
with Iran if Tehran provides land and cheap gas, even as there is no sign yet of an agreement on the long-
pending rights to develop Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf discovered by staterun ONGC Videsh.

14. India to get $250m for renewables from New Development Bank

The New Development Bank, the latest multilateral funding institution in the financial world, has sanctioned a $250
million loan for India to fund its ambitious scheme on new and renewable energy.

15. RBI gave in-principle approval to Airtel payments bank

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted the first payments bank license to Airtel M
Commerce Services (AMSL) which is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel.

All companies, which received in-principle approval from RBI in August, will have to make their
banks operational by March 2017.

16. India worlds largest remittance recipient in 2015: World Bank

In its annual report Migration and Development Brief, World Bank said, India retained its top spot in
2015, attracting about 69 billion US dollars in remittances, down from 70 billion in 2014.

17. Interest rates for NSSF loan to Centre, states cut to 8.8%

The government has slashed interest rates on loans from the National Small Savings Fund (NSSF) to
8.8 per cent from 9.5 per cent for FY17.

All the funds collected from small savings such as National Small Savings Certificate,Kisan Vikas
Patra (KVP), Public Provident Fund (PPF) and Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS) is deposited in
the NSSF.

18. Nauru becomes 189th member of IMF, World Bank

The Republic of Nauru, a tiny South Pacific island nation in Pacific Ocean became the 189th member of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

19. Vijay Shekhar Sharma appointed chairman of IAMAI payments banks group

Industry body Internet and Mobile Association of India, has appointed Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar
Sharma, chairman of its the newly formed payments banks group.

Vodafone India business head(M-Pesa)Suresh Sethi, will be the vice-chairman of the group.

20. India may expand by 7.7% in fiscal year 2017: Fitch

Fitch Ratings expects India to be on the top of the global growth ladder and expanding by 7.7 per cent in
the current fiscal.

Growth is expected to gradually accelerate to 7.7 per cent in FY17 and 7.9 per cent in FY18, Fitch Ratings
said in its India-Global Economic Outlook (GEO) Forecast.

21. India to notch up to 7.5 pc growth in 201617: IMF

 MF in its latest, World Economic Outlook report said, Indias growth is projected to notch up to 7.5 per cent
in 2016-17, overtaking Chinas GDP by more than 1 per cent.

22. Postal department to launch payments bank by January

The Department of Post will launch its payments bank by January next year and top management of the
new-age venture would be in-place by July.

23. India, Germany sign pact on Ganga Rejuvenation

The project duration is three years from 2016 to 2018 and the German contribution in the project will
be to the tune of 22.5 crore rupees.

24. Central govt employees get 6 per cent DA hike from Jan 1

Dearness allowance (DA) for central government employees has been hiked to 125 %of basic pay, up
by 6 percentage points, with effect from January 1, 2016.

The Centre revises DA twice a year on the basis of one year average of retail inflation for industrial
workers as per a pre-determined formula.

25. Nita Ambani most powerful businesswoman in Asia: Forbes

SBI Chairman and Managing Director Arundhati Bhattacharya has been rankedsecond.

26. RBI cuts repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.5%; Keeps CRR unchanged

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut down key interest rates repo rate by 25 basispoints to 6.50
per cent from 6.75 per cent in its first bi-monthly monetary policyreview for the 2016-17 fiscal.

27. DCB Bank launches Indias first Aadhaar-based ATM

DCB Bank has launched, Indias first of its kind Aadhaar-based Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) in
Mumbai. It is a card less and PIN less ATM,customers can transact using hisbiometric details instead of
the PIN.

28. Modi launches Stand Up India scheme

The scheme is intended to promote entrepreneurship among Scheduled Castes,Schedule

Tribes and women will involve loans ranging from Rs. 10 lakh to Rs. 1 crore.

29. India ranks 6th in 2015 top-10 manufacturers list: UNIDO report

India has been ranked sixth among the worlds Top-Ten largest manufacturing countries in the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) 2015 Yearbook report.

30. Germanys Development Bank KfW to provide loan assistance to metro system for Nagpur

Germanys Development Bank KfW will provide loan assistance of three thousand and 750 crore
rupees for the modern and sustainable metro system for Nagpur city being executed by Nagpur Metro Rail
Corporation Limited.

31. Geeta Reddy is new Chairperson of PAC

Congress senior MLA J Geeta Reddy has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the Public Accounts
Committee (PAC) of Telangana