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  After Gangajal, now buy pulses from your nearest post office at subsidised rates

  India | October 15, 2016 9:31 IST

  To ensure that there is no shortage of pulses during the ongoing festival season, the Central government of Friday decided to utilise post offices across the country to sell pulses at the subsidised rates. The

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  Post-offices to serve as banks, Cabinet nod to India Post for payments bank launch

  June 01, 2016 18:28 IST

  New Delhi: The government today gave its clearance to India Post to set up payments banks. With a corpus of Rs 800 crore the postal network, the largest in the world, is eyeing 650 operational

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  Government to digitally connect rural post offices by March 2017

  March 05, 2016 7:22 IST

  New Delhi: The government will digitally connect all rural post offices by March 2017, Parliament was informed today. "Government is digitally connecting all 1,29,323 gramin dak sewak post offices in rural areas across the country by

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  An illiterate auto driver gets 39kg documents in reply of RTI query

  India | January 14, 2016 19:10 IST

  New Delhi: An auto rickshaw driver in Jaipur got the 39kg weighing documents in reply to an RTI query he filed some 20 years ago. He did so for getting information on the 1.5 bigahs of

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  Decoding the PINCODE (Postal Index Number)

  India | September 23, 2015 13:51 IST

  What does the PINCODE (Postal Index Number) mean? Why do the Postal Department & Courier firms ask you to write the PINCODE of the addressee? Why is it so important?PINCODEPostal Index Number (PIN) or PIN

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  India's first post office savings bank ATM in Chennai

  India | February 27, 2014 16:48 IST

  Chennai: Country's first Post Office Savings Bank ATM was inaugurated in Chennai today by Finance Minister P Chidambaram as a part of the government's Rs. 4,909 crore IT modernisation scheme for the Department of Posts.After

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  PPF, post office small savings interest rates cut by 0.1%

  March 25, 2013 18:04 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 25 :  Millions of small savers and PPF account holders will earn less on their post office savings schemes, with the government deciding to reduce interest rates on them marginally by 0.10

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  Interest Rates On Post Office Saving Schemes Increased

  November 11, 2011 20:33 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 11: In a bonanza to millions of small savers, the government today increased interest rates on deposit schemes offered by post offices, like savings account, Monthly Income Scheme and Public Provident Fund. 

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  Goof-Ups: Is Home Ministry Only A Post Office, Asks BJP

  India | May 20, 2011 19:58 IST

  New Delhi, May 20: BJP today demanded the resignation of Home Minister P Chidambaram for the goof-up in India's most wanted list and wondered whether his Ministry was “just a post office” to pass on