Reserve Bank of India approves Bank of Rajasthan Merger with ICICI Bank.

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SEBI-IRDA are at dispute over ULIP's.ULIP, over which the two regulators at logg erheads, is a life insurance policy which provides a combination of risk cover a nd investment. In order to provide quality healthcare to all citizens, the Delhi Government on Monday decided to set up one Primary Urban Health Centre (PUHC) for every 50,000 people in the city. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Shei la Dikshit on Monday. Shahbad to Get First Rural Court of Haryana. KOLKATA: The Bengal state government has decided to impose a new yearly cess on all commercial vehicles. The aim is to create a funds corpus than would be used to help transport workers in distress. The European Union (EU) consists of 27 members. The Treaty of Lisbon (initially known as the Reform Treaty) is an international agreement that amends the two treaties which comprise the constitutional basis o f European Union (EU). The Lisbon Treaty was signed by the EU member states on 13 December 2007, and en tered into force on 1 December 2009. Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (B IMSTEC) is an international organisation involving a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia. The member countries of this group are: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, T hailand, Bhutan and Nepal. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an organization

of South Asian nations, founded in 1985 and dedicated to economic, technological, social, and cultural development emphasizing collective self-reliance. Its seven founding members are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, P akistan, and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan joined the organization in 2007. Meetings of heads of state are usually scheduled annually; meetings of foreign s ecretaries, twice annually. Headquarters are in Kathmandu, Nepal. The six core industries crude oil, petroleum refining, coal, electricity, cement and finished steel. Within the six core sector industries, cement and steel are considered better im mediate indicators of industrial activity as their production is demand driven, whereas in the case of others, the supply is always short of demand that have to be met with imports. 2010 is the silver jubilee year of SAARC. Head of the panel set up by PC for effective management of public expenditure is Rangarajan. Public sector banks to get Rs15,000-crore capital boost in the budget 2010-11 in order to augment credit flow from these banks. The Nile Basin encompasses land in nine nations: Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Tanzani a, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt.