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India’s forex reserves near $300 billion mark   Continuing to rally for the fourth straight week, India’s foreign exchange reserves swelled by 1.35 billion dollar to 298.64 billion dollar for the week ended 21st of this month. A RBI press release in Mumbai has said that foreign currency assets, a major part of the overall reserves, increased by 1.58 billion dollar to 271.40 billion dollar in the reporting week. Edit :  Edit Comments :  Leave a Comment »   Categories :  Uncategorized 29 03 2014 Thai opposition protesters stage mass rally   Tens of thousands of Thai opposition protesters marched through Bangkok on Saturday calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who faces a possible ban from politics for alleged negligence.  The new show of strength by the anti-government movement came on the eve of elections for the upper house of parliament, whose members could decide Yingluck’s fate.  “I have come out to
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BJP, Congress guilty of taking foreign funds: Delhi HC Petitioners:   EAS Sarma and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) Respondents: Union of India (Respondent 1) and ECI (Respondent 2), INC (Respondent 3) and BJP (Respondent 4) New Delhi, March. 28 -- In a landmark judgment, Delhi High Court today held major National political parties BJP and Congress guilty of taking foreign funding and violating the provisions of FCRA and directed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Election Commission of India (ECI) to take action against the two parties within six months. The Bench comprising   Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Jayant Nath has observed that   these political parties have taken donations from Vedanta Resources, registered in England and Wales, and its subsidiaries. The Bench also rejected the stand taken by Ministry of Home Affairs which said that FCRA has not been violated.   The judgement draws attention to the donations made to INC and BJP for th