Banking services are likely to be hit on Tuesday (October 22) as two bank unions have called for a 24-hour strike . The strike is called by All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) and the Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI). The unions are protesting against recent bank mergers, falling deposit...
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October 22, 2019 Loknath Das
Banking
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Six engineering institutes in India are being loaned over Rs 2,066 crores for research and infrastructure projects by a finance company established by the Union government for this purpose. These include the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (in Mumbai), Madras (Chennai), Kharagpur (in West Bengal), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Delhi,...
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December 11, 2017 Loknath Das
Education Loans
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“I see no point in having a dream company to pursue, when we live and work in such uncertain times,” says an investment banker. The very banker, before the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, saw Lehman Brothers as ‘a dream company to work’. The vagaries of the job market in the...
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October 2, 2017 Loknath Das
Career
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The preliminary exam or the IBPS PO (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, probationary officers) prelims, 2017, will be held on October 7, 8,14 and 15. While most of you must have started your preparations for the exams, it’s time you got to be a little more systematic. Abhishek...
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September 8, 2017 Loknath Das
Banking, Exam preparation
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The state higher education department has drawn up a detailed plan for introducing reforms in higher education institutes to make colleges future-ready. Called “Vision Goals 2022”, the plan document states that plans are there to set up two new state universities, 32 new degree colleges, 14 new girls’...
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July 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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The SAT and ACT once differed in several areas: The ACT was notable for testing scientific knowledge and reasoning, while the SAT left that material to more specialized subject tests. As of March 2016, however, the lines have blurred significantly. Following the SAT’s recent redesign, that exam now...
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June 24, 2017 Loknath Das
Exam preparation
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