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By Victor S. Fischer
  ✍️ CRR Cash Reserve Ratio is the minimum fraction of total deposits of a bank’s customers that banks have to hold as reserves with the central bank. ✍️ SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio is the ratio of liquid assets to the net demand and time liabilities. ✍️ LAF Liquid Adjustment Facility is a tool to allow banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements. It consists of repo and reverse repo operations. ✍️ MSF Marginal Standing Facility allows scheduled banks to borrow funds overnight from RBI against approved government securities. ✍️ MSS Market Stabilization Scheme is a monetary policy intervention by RBI to withdraw excess liquidity by selling government securities in the economy. ✍️ OMO Open Market Operations refers to the buying and selling of government securities in the open market so as to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. ✍️ REPO Repo...
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Polity and Governance

  • SATH programme by NITI AYOG.  Jun 14, 2017
  • PT 2017: Current Affairs at a glance (POLITY).  Jun 14, 2017
  • NALSA offers instant legal aid to the poor.  May 24, 2017
  • System to address plaints against judiciary.  May 15, 2017
  • Conflict of interest in NSDC's functioning- Sharda Prasad Committee.  May 09, 2017
  • Real estate Act came into force. May 05, 2017
  • Judicial performance index proposed. May 03, 2017
  • Law to regulate NGO funds SC. Apr 29, 2017
  • New approach to planning by NITI AYOG. Apr 26, 2017
  • Legal Aid and Empowerment initiatives.  Apr 24, 2017
  • Central Consumer Protection Council.  Apr 22, 2017
  • Hiv Bill and Aids Bill passed by Upper House.  Apr 16, 2017
  • Meeting standing committee of Inter-State Council after long gap. Apr 15, 2017
  • New OBC commission to get constitutional status. Apr 14, 2017
  • Guidelines for NGOs, VOs handed over to SC.  Apr 13, 2017
  • Ganga Yamuna-Living entity.  Mar 25, 2017
  • India first in bribery rate, says global NGO. Mar 13, 2017
  • Mahadayi river dispute.  Mar 19, 2017
  • Jalyukt Shivar Yojana unsustainable.  Mar 18, 2017
  • Thiruvananthapuram tops city-wide urban governance survey. Mar 07, 2017
  • A Government Panel recommends legal framework for protection of interests of migrants in the country. Mar 06, 2017
  • New Format for Reporting Accident. Feb 27, 2017
  • Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Ordinance.  Feb 20, 2017
  • Amendment to the Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 (7 of 2009).  Feb 18, 2017
  • Aadhaar must for food subsidy. Feb 14, 2017
  • Derailments rise but safety reports gather dust. Feb 07, 2017
  • SC refuses govt. plea to stop hearing on judicial vacancies. Feb 07, 2017
  • Big Corruption Problems still persist:  Feb 03, 2017
  • 69% of political funding from unknown sources. Feb 03, 2017
  • India most trusted nation in terms of institutions. Jan 30, 2017
  • Paper trail in EVMs for fair poll:SC.  Jan 20, 2017
  • How EC decide on the party symbol row.  Jan 19, 2017
  • TRAI issues consultation paper on net-neutrality.  Jan 13, 2017
  • Even nil vacancies (in courts) won't cut backlog Report.  Dec 17, 2016
  • Accept dying declaration of person with 100% burns: Supreme Court. Dec 07, 2016
  • National eHealth Authority (NeHA).  Dec 07, 2016
  • Police Mitra. Dec 01, 2016
  • Government going to dismantle National Pharmaceutical price authority. Nov 30, 2016
  • Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for trying to "import a Roman-type gladiator sport"  Nov 25, 2016
  • Concern over Surrogacy Bill restrictions. Nov 21, 2016
  • Poor state of jails :Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. Nov 19, 2016
  • Guidelines for setting up 1000 MW Wind Power Projects. Nov 18, 2016
  • Inter-State Council reconstituted. Nov 12, 2016
  • Degree screening goes digital. Nov 09, 2016
  • National Human Rights Commission.  Oct 22, 2016
  • Prison Reform. Oct 14, 2016
  • Enactment of Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Bill 2016. Oct 01, 2016
  • SC moves away from death penalty. Sep 27, 2016
  • Creation of GST Council and its Secretariat got approval. Sep 21, 2016
  • Ponzi schemes not under purview of SEBI. Aug 25, 2016
  • Bio-safety data on GM mustard public -CIC  .Aug 23, 2016
  • Bill to amend Sarfaesi, debt recovery tribunal Acts cleared by Lok Sabha. Aug 08, 2016
  • Parliamentary panel approves debt recovery law with changes,Nov 30, -0001
  • National Electoral Roll Purification. Nov 30, -0001
  • Cabinet approves amendment in the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) amendment Bill. Nov 30, -0001
  • Draft National Water Framework Bill. Jul 27, 2016
  • SC to consider whether NHRC is 'toothless tiger'. Jul 23, 2016
  • Dr. Shankar Acharya Committee. Jul 19, 2016
  • Fssai-signs-pact-with-asci-to-check-misleading-advertisements. Jul 09, 2016
  • Regional Air Connectivity Scheme to Make Regional Air Travel Affordable and Promote Balanced Growth. Jul 08, 2016

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