Farmers Debt Relief Fund to be set up Giving a decisive push to implement the controversial Rs 60,000 crore farm loan waiver scheme, the Government on Thursday decided to set up a Farmers Debt Relief Fund with an initial corpus of Rs 10,000 crore.
How Menon became AI chief Being an inside man - having served the civil aviation ministry as financial advisor - has apparently helped Raghu Menon take over as the CMD of the public sector Air India.
13 SIMI leaders arrested The crackdown by Madhya Pradesh Police, along with Central security agencies, began in and around Indore and Dhar district on Wednesday night.
Fiona for third forensic test Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British girl Scarlett Eden Keeling on Thursday said that she would get a third forensic examination done on her daughters body in UK.
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