2. After 38 years of her services as Deputy Director of
RBI, she retires.
Anand Sinha an executive director of RBI replace
Ms throat.
3. India’s biggest fuel retailer IOC is considering
raising petrol price by 35 paise per litre this week
as the crude oil prices have gone up.
If the government increases the prices this will be
the third hike in the petrol prices since government
freed its prices on June 26.
IOC decision expected to be followed by other state
run fuel retailer- Bharat Petroleum Corp and
Hindustan Petroleum Corp.
4. RBI has told a bunch of top bank executive to push the
usage of electronic transaction and to educate the
customers about such payment options.
Executive director of Allahabad Bank, Bank of Baroda,
Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Dena Bank,
Punjab & Sind Bank, UCO Bank and Vijaya Bank were
at the meeting presided over by RBI chief general
manger G Pdmanabhan.
At present 90% transactions in the banking industry are
done electronically in value terms: the share of
electronic payment is however just about 35% in terms
of the number of the transactions.
5. HDFC Std Life Insurance has put off its listing
plans until the government relaxed foreign
investment norms. UK Life Insurer Standard Life
Insurance holds the maximum permissible 26% in
the Life Insurance venture with mortgage giant
HDFC.
If the government relaxes the foreign investment
limits to 49%, as expected Standard Life will
subscribe to its full entitlement.