Monthly Archives: November 2013

Bank licences: Sebi scans listed applicants, group firms

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As RBI gears up to issue new bank licences, capital markets regulator Sebi has also a job at hand that is of scrutinising all applicants coming under its jurisdiction directly or through group entities. Also Read: RBI releases guidelines for foreign bank subsidiarisation Sebi's scrutiny follows detailed queries shot off by RBI to various regulators in India and abroad as part of its due-diligence of entities seeking to enter banking arena. According to a senior Read more [...]

Veterans Day events around Central Pa.

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  There are several Veterans Day events planned around Central Pa. on Monday, Nov. 11. Cumberland County: Dickinson ROTC Will Host Annual Veterans Day Run/Walk– In recognition of Veterans Day, the Dickinson College ROTC battalion will host its annual Veterans Day run on Monday, Nov. 11 at 6:20 a.m. The run/walk will begin and end at the ROTC administrative offices at 450 W. High Street between Mooreland Avenue and Conway Street in Carlisle. The three-mile run or one-mile walk will Read more [...]

Veterans Day events planned in the Mercer County area – The Times of Trenton

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Numerous Veterans Day events in honor of men and women of the armed forces will be held over the next several days. They are listed below. TODAY TRENTON Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes and township officials will honor county veterans at noon in a ceremony at Catholic War Veterans Post 417, 301 Grand St. The event will be presented by Mercer County Veteran Services in conjunction with the Mercer County Veterans Council and will include the laying of a wreath to honor veterans’ service, Read more [...]

New bank licences: Sebi scans listed applicants, group firms

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As RBI gears up to issue new bank licences, capital markets regulator Sebi is busy scrutinising all applicants under its jurisdiction. Sebi’s scrutiny follows detailed queries shot off by RBI to various regulators in India and abroad as part of its due-diligence of entities seeking to enter banking arena. According to a senior official, Sebi is looking into the capital market track-record of all the group entities of 26 banking aspirants, some of whom are either listed entities or have presence Read more [...]

Over 100 dead in typhoon onslaught in Philippines

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines, killing more than 100 people whose bodies lay in the streets of one of the hardest-hit cities, an official said yesterday. Captain John Andrews, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, said more than 100 others were injured in the city of Tacloban on Leyte Island, where Typhoon Haiyan hit Friday. With power and most communications knocked out a day after Read more [...]

New bank licences: Sebi scans listed applicants, group firms

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NEW DELHI: As RBI gears up to issue new bank licences, capital markets regulator Sebi has also a job at hand that is of scrutinising all applicants coming under its jurisdiction directly or through group entities. Sebi's scrutiny follows detailed queries shot off by RBI to various regulators in India and abroad as part of its due-diligence of entities seeking to enter banking arena. According to a senior official, Sebi is looking into the capital market track-record of all the group entities Read more [...]

Please help save our crumbling war memorials

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Heritage organisations, including the WMT, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, set up the online database to build up a picture of the state of the nation’s monuments following a campaign by The Telegraph. The WMT said data from the 12,500 suggested that 10 per cent may be in a “poor” or “very bad” state. If the same pattern applies to the estimated 100,000 memorials around the country, it would mean around 10,000 war memorials Read more [...]

War memorials to get listed status

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Up to 2,500 war memorials are to get listed status to ensure they are preserved forever, reports the Sunday People. Culture Secretary Maria Miller will today announce that Liverpool Cenotaph will be listed Grade 1. It will join the memorial in Victoria Park Leicester and the Cenotaph in Whitehall as one of only three to have the top grade. But over the next five years English Heritage plan listing another 500 war memorials annually. Ms Miller said: “War memorials are a precious part of our heritage Read more [...]

Thanks a billion … body blow for Sky as BT lands Champions League

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Uefa accepted the telecoms giant's huge offer of £299m per season for exclusive live rights to screen both the Champions League and the Europa League for three seasons starting in 2015-16.The bid by BT's fledgling sports arm, BT Sport, which has been on air for only 14 weeks, so comprehensively trounced its rivals – by around £200m – that the tender process did not go to a second round. Sky, which holds current UK rights to the Champions League jointly with ITV, pays Uefa some £80m a season Read more [...]