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SBI profit up 14 % at Rs.2,828 crore in Q3: State Bank of India (SBI) recorded a net profit of Rs.2,828 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2010, up 14.08 per cent over Rs.2,479 crore in the corresponding period in the previous year despite increase in provisions by Rs.1,797 crore (84.02 per cent).


PNB Q3 net profit at Rs.1,090 crore


China has launched yuan trading in New York as part of efforts to make its currency ‘fully convertible' and a global competitor to the dollar


T K Kurien is Wipro's new CEO:
The country's third largest software firm Wipro on Friday said T K Kurien will replace Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani as chief executive officer of the IT business, a move that is aimed at simplifying its organisational structure.
Paranjpe and Vaswani, current joint CEOs of the IT business, will step down on February 1, 2011.


Google said that Rajan Anandan, the former Managing Director of Microsoft, has joined the company as Vice-President (Sales and Operations) and Head of India region.


Six-year post-MBBS course is back:
The National Board of Examination (NBE) has re-introduced the direct six-year, post-MBBS super speciality programme. The courses will be conducted in neuro surgery, plastic surgery, cardio-thoracic surgery and paediatric surgery.


The Prince of Wales is planning to build a shanty town for 15,000 poor people living in India, inspired by the one he saw in the Oscar-winning movie Slum dog Millionaire.


World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick addresses journalists in Patna after
signing a $220-million agreement with the Bihar government for the Kosi Recovery Project to rebuild areas affected by the 2008 floods


Joy Alukkas has won two awards at the ‘National Jewellery Awards 2011' organised by the All-India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF)


Farah Khan won the Best Choreography Song for ‘Sheila Ki Jawani' from her directorial Tees Maar Khan.


Salman Khan’s Bollywood Dabangg won eight awards in different categories. Check out the full list of Apsara Awards 2011 winners.

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