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BUSINESS/ECONOMY/MARKET CURRENT AFFAIRS AND GENERAL AWARENESS-19 JANUARY 2010 TUESDAY

  • Orissa High Court asked CBI to investigate certain contracts by leading banks with some Indian companies for irregularities which prompted for bankruptcy. Who had filed the writ petition for the same in the High Court? 
      Prabanjan Patra

  • Who has been appointed by HDFC Standard Life Insurance as its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer?

      Amitabh Chaudhry
      He was the Managing Director and CEO at Infosys BPO. 

  • Which telecom operator expressed its desire to expand its operations to Africa? 

      MTNL

  • Tata Motors’ Indica and Indigo, and Mahindra and Mahindra’s Xylo, Scorpio and Bolero have raised prices after Maruti Suzuki.
  • The Finance Ministry will give Rs 12,000 crore in cash to which oil companies inorder to compensate losses incurred on selling LPG and kerosene?

      Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum 


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