Post Office
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After Gangajal, now buy pulses from your nearest post office at subsidised rates
India | Oct 15, 2016, 09:31 AM ISTTo 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
Jun 01, 2016, 06:28 PM ISTNew 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
Mar 05, 2016, 07:22 AM ISTNew 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 | Jan 14, 2016, 07:10 PM ISTNew 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 | Sep 23, 2015, 01:51 PM ISTWhat 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 | Feb 27, 2014, 04:48 PM ISTChennai: 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%
Mar 25, 2013, 06:04 PM ISTNew 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
Nov 11, 2011, 08:33 PM ISTNew 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, 07:58 PM ISTNew 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