05th Mar : Today's Important NEWS !!!!!!!

1)Sheila Dikshit to be Kerala Governor

New JOB:Sheila Dikshit

Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is all set to be appointed Governor of Kerala.Ms. Dikshit, who led the Congress to a record three consecutive victories in the Delhi Assembly elections and remained the Chief Minister from 1998 to 2013, will replace Nikhil Kumar, former Delhi Police Commissioner, sources said.Mr. Kumar, earlier appointed Nagaland Governor, is expected to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections on a Congress ticket from Bihar. He was earlier a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from the Aurangabad constituency in Bihar, representing the Congress.PTI adds: Ms. Dikshit met Union Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in the morning and the decision to make her Kerala Governor was conveyed to her, they said.During the Delhi Assembly elections last December, Ms. Dikshit suffered an ignominious defeat in the New Delhi seat at the hands of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal.She had also represented the Kannauj Parliamentary constituency of Uttar Pradesh between 1984 and 1989.

2)Interest rates of small savings schemes raised

The Union government has raised the interest rates on select fixed deposit schemes offered by post offices.Interest rates on time deposits of various maturities have been raised by 10 to 20 basis points.The rate hike comes just ahead of the Lok Sabha poll announcement by the Election Commission. The rate hike will come into effect from April 1, 2014.The interest rates on the five-year senior citizens savings scheme, the five-year monthly income scheme, five-year and 10-year National Savings Certificates and Public Provident Funds have been kept unchanged.A communiqué from the Ministry of Finance has stated that necessary notifications will be issued separately in due course.The rate hike decision is in line with the recommendations of the Shyamala Gopinath Committee for Comprehensive Review of National Savings Fund (NSSF).

3)India has to set up new boxing body

With the provisional exclusion of the Indian Boxing Federation (IBF), the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has suggested that a new national federation be floated to revive the country’s relations with the international boxing community.The AIBA, which suspended the IBF on December 6, 2012 due to alleged irregularities in its elections held that year, said that it received “different claims from various groups of people on the way the sport of boxing was managed in India and it has therefore now become totally impossible for AIBA to make proper judgments in terms of handling the National Federation’s affairs in India.”

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4)Dark days

Sahara chief Subrata Roy was sprayed with ink by a lawyer on Tuesday near the Supreme Court. The court was not satisfied with his plan to refund Rs. 20,000 crore in deposits and sent him to judicial custody till March 11

5)Poll schedule likely today

The Election Commission is likely to announce on Wednesday the schedule of elections for the 16th Lok Sabha and the Assemblies of integrated Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim, and by-polls in some Assembly constituencies in different States.

6)Unsuspecting cabbie waits as man robs bank

Confident thief! A robber in the United Kingdom asked a taxi to wait for him as he went into a bank and robbed it, after which he made his getaway in the cab with thousands of pounds. The robbery took place at a Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Edinburgh on Monday. The robber threatened staff, took away a four-figure sum and was then driven away by the unsuspecting cabbie.

7)U.P. is not Gujarat, says Akhilesh

“BJP trying to polarise the State on religious lines”
Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said the Congress had failed the people on two counts – corruption and price rise – and, therefore, the people have turned against it. “There are many issues in this [general] election, but these two will be the biggest,” he told The Hindu .
Rejecting BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s allegation that the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party were equally accountable for the failures of the Congress-led government at the Centre as they both were supporting it, Mr. Yadav said that was not the public perception. “The public perception is different. Secularism has been a very big issue and will remain a big issue after the elections. The people of U.P. understand this reason why we supported the Congress at the Centre.”
Mr. Yadav said the SP would contest the Lok Sabha elections on the twin plank of secularism and development. Rejecting the BJP claims of a swing in its favour in the State, and ruling out any significant wave in favour of Mr. Modi, Mr Yadav said: “He is a visitor in U.P. He has no knowledge of the ground situation in the State. U.P. is no Gujarat. This is too huge in size… it has a substantial Muslim population… the religious and caste relations in the State are complex.” He said the BJP, contrary to its claim that it was focussing on development as the main poll issue, was trying to polarise the State on religious lines.
“The BJP and the RSS are trying to create trouble in U.P. Though they raise slogans about development, their actual politics is being played on the ground in the name of religion,” he said.

8)Poor security, negligence blamed

While the police are busy handling bandobust for VIPs here on Tuesday, thieves struck at Andhra Bank located on the busy Hindu College Centre in broad daylight. Several policemen were deployed in the area in view of the visit of Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh.
The theft took place in the bank right opposite the DCC office where a meeting of Congress workers with the Minister was going on. The police said that poor security and negligence of the bank cashier helped the attention diversion gang complete its task easily. “The accused walked up to the cash counter enclosure directly, but nobody obstructed. The thief entered the enclosure as the cashier did not lock the door from inside,” said Guntur East DSP D. Gangadharam.
Gang from Tamil Nadu suspected to be behind the incident

9)RBI allows money transfer directly into beneficiaries’ bank accounts

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Tuesday, decided to allow foreign inward remittances received under money transfer service scheme (MTSS) directly into the bank account of the beneficiary through electronic modes such as national electronic funds transfer (NEFT) and immediate payment service (IMPS).
However, the RBI said that the recipient bank would credit the amount transferred by the partner bank only to KYC (know-your-customer) compliant bank accounts.
Further, it said, with regard to bank accounts that are not KYC compliant, “the recipient bank shall carry out KYC/CDD (customer due diligence) of the recipient before the remittance to such account is credited or allowed to be withdrawn.”
The RBI also instructed that the partner bank should appropriately mark the direct-to-account remittances to indicate to the recipient bank that it is a foreign inward remittance.
Electronic message“The partner bank shall ensure that accurate originator information and necessary beneficiary information is included in the electronic message while transferring the fund to the recipient bank,” the RBI said.
“The partner bank should add an appropriate alert in the electronic message indicating that this is a foreign inward remittance and should not be credited to KYC non-compliant and NRE/NRO account,” the RBI added.

10)Apple CFO to retire, successor named

Apple’s long time Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer will retire in September and he will be replaced by the company’s corporate controller.
The announcement on Tuesday comes a day after Goldman Sachs named Mr. Oppenheimer as one of its 13 board members.
Mr. Oppenheimer,
who has been CFO for the past decade, will
begin transferring responsibilities to
Luca Maestri in June.