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Basel III
The Basel Committee, established by the central-bank Governors of the Group of Ten countries at the end of 1974

Basel III
"Basel III" is a comprehensive set of reform measures, developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, to strengthen the regulation, supervision and risk management of the banking sector.

Basel III
These measures aim to:
Improve the banking sector's ability to absorb shocks arising from financial and economic stress, whatever the source. Improve risk management and governance. Strengthen banks' transparency and disclosures.

Basel III
The reforms target: Bank-level, or microprudential, regulation, which will help raise the resilience of individual banking institutions to periods of stress. Macroprudential, system wide risks that can build up across the banking sector as well as the procyclical amplification of

Basel III - Source

http://www.bis.org/bcbs/bas el3/b3summarytable.pdf

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Reserve Bank of India

The Reserve Bank of India was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. The Central Office of the Reserve Bank was initially established in Calcutta but was permanently moved to Mumbai

RBI
Nationalisation in 1949 RBI has six training establishments * Three are part of the RBI: 1. College of Agricultural Banking 2. Bankers Training College 3. Reserve Bank of India Staff

RBI
* Others are autonomous, such as: 1. National Institute for Bank Management 2. Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR) 3. Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT)

RBI
Subsidiaries: Fully owned: National Housing Bank(NHB) Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India(DICGC) Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited(BRBNMPL)

RBI
Majority stake: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

Note: The Reserve Bank of India has divested its stake in State Bank of India to the Government of India.

RBI
Directors of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla Shri G.M. Rao Ms. Ela Bhatt - Self Employed Women's Association Dr. Anil Kakodkar Shri Azim Premji

All the Ratnas

Maharatna CPSEs Coal India Limited Indian Oil Corporation Limited NTPC Limited Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited Steel Authority of India Limited

Navratna
Navratna CPSEs Bharat Electronics Limited Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited GAIL (India) Limited Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Hindustan Petroleum

Navratna
MTNL National Aluminium Company Limited NMDC Limited Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited Oil India Limited Power Finance Corporation Limited

Navratna
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited Rural Electrification Corporation Limited Shipping Corporation of India Limited

Parliament
It is the supreme legislative body of India. It comprises of the President and the two Houses-Lok Sabha (House of the People) and Rajya Sabha (Council of States). The President has the power to summon and prorogue either House of Parliament or

Parliament
The Constitution of India came into force on January 26, 1950. The first general elections under the new Constitution were held during the year 1951-52. The first elected Parliament came into being in April, 1952.

LS
The Second Lok Sabha in April, 1957, the Third Lok Sabha in April, 1962, the Fourth Lok Sabha in March, 1967, the Fifth Lok Sabha in March, 1971, the Sixth Lok Sabha in March, 1977,

LS
the Seventh Lok Sabha in January, 1980, the Eighth Lok Sabha in December, 1984, the Ninth Lok Sabha in December, 1989, Tenth Lok Sabha in June, 1991, the Eleventh Lok Sabha in May, 1996,

LS
the Twelfth Lok Sabha in March, 1998, Thirteenth Lok Sabha in October, 1999, Fourteenth Lok Sabha in May, 2004 and Fifteenth Lok Sabha in April, 2009.

Rajya Sabha
The origin of Rajya Sabha can be traced back to 1919, when in pursuance to the Government of India Act, 1919, a second chamber known as the Council of States was created. The Council continued to function till India became independent.

RS
The Rajya Sabha is to consist of not more than 250 members - 238 members representing the States and Union Territories. 12 members are nominated by the President. Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and is not subject to dissolution.

RS
Each member is elected for a term of six years. The Vice President of India is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha. The House also elects a Deputy Chairman from among its members.
(Aug-2012: members of the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday unanimously elected

Nominated Members
1 Aga, Ms. Anu 2 Aiyar, Shri Mani Shankar 3 Akhtar, Shri Javed 4 Dua, Shri H.K. 5 Ganguly, Dr. Ashok S. 6 Jayashree, Smt. B. 7 Miri, Prof. Mrinal 8 Mungekar, Dr. Bhalchandra 9 Parasaran, Shri K. 10 Rekha, Ms. 11 Swaminathan, Prof. M.S. 12 Tendulkar, Shri Sachin Ramesh

Lok Sabha
Until 1853, there was no legislative body distinct from the Executive. The Charter Act of 1853, for the first time provided some sort of a legislature in the form of a 12 member Legislative Council.

LS
The Indian Independence Act, 1947 declared the Constituent Assembly of India to be a full sovereign body. Apart from being a Constitution drafting body, it also assumed full powers for the governance of the country.

LS
The Constituent Assembly functioned as the Provisional Parliament until the first Lok Sabha, then known as the House of People, and was constituted following General Elections in 1952. Lok Sabha, the Hindi nomenclature was adopted on 14 May, 1954.

LS
The Constitution provides that the maximum strength of the House be 552 members - 530 members to represent the States, 20 members to represent the Union Territories. 2 members to be nominated by the President from the AngloIndian Community. At present, the strength of the

LS
Term of the LS - 5 yrs from its first meeting. However, while a proclamation of emergency is in operation, this period may be extended by Parliament for a period not exceeding 1 yr at a time and not extending in any case, beyond a period of 6 mnths after the proclamation has

Airports
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Terms
EPS: A company's profit divided by its number of common outstanding shares. Blue chip A term used to describe large, well-known companies that offer stable earnings and consistent dividend record. Blue-chip companies are

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Underwriting An arrangement by which a company is guaranteed that an issue of shares will raise a given amount of cash. Underwriters undertake to subscribe for any of the issue not taken up by the public. They charge commission for this service.

Terms
Yield to maturity (YTM) Is the rate of return anticipated on a bond if it is held until the maturity date. Net asset value (NAV) In the context of trusts and funds, NAV is the total value of the funds portfolio less liabilities.

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Money laundering The process of disguising money obtained from criminal activity. Balloon Payment The final (large) payment that repays all the remaining principal and interest of a partially amortized or unamortized loan.

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Arbitrage Buying securities in one country, currency or market, and selling in another to take advantage of price differences.

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