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THE HINDU: TOP NEWS SUMMARY – NOVEMBER 2012Contributed by: Mr. Sumit Yadav, Sr. GK Faculty, Bank POwer
1. From January 1, 2013, cheques which do notconform to CTS-2010 standards would not be
entertained by banks. ‘Cheque Truncation System
(CTS)-2010 standard’ is a set of benchmarks towards
achieving standardisation of cheques issued by
banks across the country. These include provision of
mandatory minimum security features on cheque
forms such as quality of paper, watermark, bank’s
logo in invisible ink, void pantograph and
standardisation of field placements on cheques.
2. India and China held their annual Strategic Economic
Dialogue (SED) in New Delhi.3. Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull wowed the spectators at
the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida for
the second successive year. Fernando Alonso of
Ferrari was on second place.
4. The 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster
Risk Reduction organised by the United Nations
Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) ended in
Indonesia.
5. The Home Ministry cleared the Pakistan cricket
team’s India visit later this year. The tour is set to
begin on December 25 and will feature two T20Internationals and three One-Day Internationals
(ODIs).
6. Centre would launch the National Urban Livelihood
Mission to protect the rights of the street vendors.
7. Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has decided to
extend the deadline for filling up the Know Your
Customer (KYC) forms by LPG consumers to
November 30 to enable genuine consumers to avail
of the offer.
8. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is deploying
the latest technology global positioning system (GPS)and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to ensure the
safety and security of its troops in field operations,
particularly in Maoist-affected areas.
9. India and the United Kingdom signed a protocol
amending the 1993 bilateral convention on
avoidance of double taxation and prevention of
fiscal evasion related to taxes on income and capital
gains.
10. Cable television in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata
switched over from analogue to digital mode at
midnight on October 31.
11. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be conferred the Knightof the Order of Arts and Letters by François Richier,
Ambassador of France to India.
12. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram asserted that the
government would contain the fiscal deficit to 5.3
per cent of the GDP (gross domestic product) in the
current fiscal year. Though the Kelkar Committee
has stated that it could be 6.1 per cent.
13. The National Innovation Council (NIC) will present its
second annual “Report to the People 2012” to
President Pranab Mukherjee. The report will be
presented by Sam Pitroda, the NIC Chairman andAdviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
14. Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 per cent of the crops
in southern Haiti in USA and caused heavy deaths of
livestock.
15. The winter session of Parliament will begin on
November 22. It is likely to conclude on December
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16. India has decided to take a decisive stand on
Internet governance at a conference being hosted in
Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 6-9. India will bid
to host the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Forum
(IGF) to be held in mid-2013.
17. Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader and formerGovernor of Gujarat and Rajasthan Kailashpati
Mishra died at his residence in Patna after prolonged
illness.
18. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the
allocation in the 12th Plan had been fixed at Rs. 3-
lakh crore, which was 1.95 per cent of the Gross
Domestic Product.
19. Free generic drugs would be made available through
public hospitals to help “reduce out-of-pocket
expenditure of the poor” on health.
20.
Rakesh Mohan has assumed charge as ExecutiveDirector on the Board of the International Monetary
Fund (IMF). In addition to India, Dr. Mohan will be
representing Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan on
the IMF Board for a three-year term.
21. British government announced halt to further
financial aid to India but said that all existing
commitments until 2015 would be honoured.
22. 6th South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) Speakers and
Parliamentarians’ Conference held at Islamabad. Lok
Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar participated in thisconference.
23. Advanced Grape Research Station will be established
in Uthamapalayam in Tamil Nadu.. A vegetable
processing centre will be set up in Dindigul.
24. Undergraduate students at the premier Indian
Institutes of Technology could see their annual
tuition fees hiked to Rs. 90,000 next year, after a
committee of IIT directors recommended the 80 per
cent increase. Anil Kakodkar Committee
recommended this hike.
25.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said thatonly 100 SMS a day will be allowed at concessional
rates. For every SMS beyond the cap, a minimum of
50 paise would be charged.
26. Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal
led a 45-member delegation of five Cabinet
Ministers, industrialists and traders to Pakistan for
boosting economic ties between the countries.
27. A three-day international conference, ‘Ramanujan
125,’ to mark the 125th birth anniversary
celebration of Srinivasa Ramanujan, began at the
University of Florida in the USA.
28. The Reserve Bank of India said banks could become
members of stock exchanges to undertake
“proprietary transactions” in the corporate bond
market.
29. A seminar on small airports in the Asia-Pacific region
is being organised by Airports Council International
(ACI) in Hyderabad from November 7 to 10 to
discuss the common concerns and interests of smallairport operations, to evaluate their needs,
challenges, latest developments and outlook of the
industry.
30. Union Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi announced
“Find What You Seek” campaign in London. In this
campaign Tourists from world over can find the
destination or product of desire in India.
31. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited
India. Both sides succeeded in finalising the
mechanism that could lead to Canadian uranium
being shipped to India. The two sides also signed asocial security agreement which had been in the
works for some time.
32. CII’s Autoserve 2012, an exhibition on automotive
care, maintenance, service, parts and garage
equipment, will be held in Chennai from November
16 to 18.
33. Vijayalakshmi Iyer has taken charge as Chairperson
and Managing Director of Bank of India. She replaces
Alok K. Misra, who retired as CMD on September 30,
2012.
34.
Moody’s downgraded Arcelor Mittal’s long-termcredit rating by one notch to Ba1, putting it into
speculative or ‘junk’ territory.
35. Congress president Sonia Gandhi inaugurated the
Rail Coach Factory at Lalganj in her Rae Bareli. Rae
Bareli factory will be the third of its kind facotry
after the Integral Coach Factory, Perambur, Tamil
Nadu, and the Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala,
Punjab.
36. U.S. President Barack Obama reelected again for
second time for four more years to consolidate his
legacy.37. The Maharashtra government decided to raise the
annual cap on the number of subsidised cooking gas
cylinders per household from six to nine. The
decision will be applicable only to people holding
yellow and saffron ration cards.
38. State Bank of India opened its Kohinoor branch, an
exclusive premium banking centre for the HNIs
equipped with the state-of-the-art technologies and
providing all banking facilities to cater to the elite
customers. This is the second Kohinoor branch of the
SBI in Andhra Pradesh, the first being Kohinoor
Banjara in Hyderabad.
39. Dr. Ami Bera elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives. So far only two Indian-Americans
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have been elected to the U.S. House of
Representative - Dalip Singh Saund and Bobby Jindal.
40. The government deferred the 12.5 per cent stake
sale in Nalco, saying the company’s second quarter
financial performance was not reflective of the true
financial position of the aluminum major.41. The Andhra Pradesh High Court set aside the lifetime
ban imposed by the Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) against Mohd. Azharuddin, former
captain of the Indian cricket team, on charges of
match-fixing.
42. The Centre ruled out extension of the deadline for
enforcing the Right to Education Act beyond March
2013 as several States are yet to achieve the
standards laid down under the Act for school
infrastructure.
43.
BrahMos Aerospace firmed up a contract worth Rs.6,515 crore with the Indian Air Force for
manufacturing the air version of the supersonic
cruise missile, a product of Indo-Russian
collaboration.
44. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
has approved divestment of 10 per cent equity in
HAL out of its holding on 100 per cent through an
Initial Public Offer (IPO) in the domestic market as
per the SEBI rules and regulations.
45. India took delivery of the fifth Russia-built multirole
stealth frigate INS Tarkash.46. The British tax authorities launched an investigation
into allegations of money laundering against HSBC
which has been accused of opening offshore bank
accounts in Jersey for serious criminals living in
Britain.
47. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that the
payment of ration subsidies to APL cardholders
through banks would begin from January next year.
48. Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare announced
that he would launch a national campaign against
corruption on January 30, 2013, death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Social activist Anna Hazare
threatened to go on another fast if the government
fails to pass a strong Lokpal Bill before the 2014
general elections. Mr. Hazare would inaugurate his
new office at Sarvodaya Enclave in south Delhi.
49. Mr. Nitish Kumar was on weeklong visit of Pakistan.
50. Mr. Karzai was in Mumbai to assure Indian business
leaders that Afghanistan was lucrative and safe for
investment.
51. The United Nations has declared November 10 as
'Malala Day' in honour of Pakistani teenage rights
activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head
by the Taliban last month for campaigning for girls'
education.
52. The government is considering a proposal to make
the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) a
multimember body. Shunglu panel’s suggestion to
make changes in the CAG is under active
consideration.
53. The advanced version of low-cost tablet Aakash waslaunched by President Pranab Mukherjee. Coming at
a price tag of Rs. 1,130 for students, the new version
‘Aakash 2’ is now powered by a processor running at
1 GHz, has a 512 MB, a 7-inch capacitative touch
screen and a battery working for three hours of
normal operations.
54. A great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi Shanti Gandhi
has been elected to a State Assembly in the United
States during the general elections held on
November 6.
55.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry haslaunched “Project Lakshya” to reduce waiting time
for delivery of LPG cylinders and track duplicate
connections.
56. The second Indian Biodiversity Congress (IBC)
scheduled to be held in Bangalore in December.
57. Retail inflation CPI rose to 9.75 percent in the month
of October 2012
58. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Myanmar’s
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in India
after a gap of nearly four decades as part of New
Delhi’s ongoing engagement with the democraticand multi-party polity in Myanmar.
59. United States President Barack Obama has invited
three Indian-Americans, including PepsiCo Chief
Executive Officer Indra Nooyi, as part of his wider
consultations with leaders from business, labour,
civic community and Congress on the current
economic crisis.
60. Four Indian naval submarines took part in the Indo-
U.S. exercise, Indiaex-2012, held off Goa early this
month where the compatibility of the submarine
rescue system of the U.S. Navy with Indian Navysubmarines was tested for the first time.
61. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has postponed his
three-day visit to Japan. Later Japanese Prime
Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolved the Lower House
of Parliament paving the way for elections. Elections
were set for December 16.
62. The Communist Party of China (CPC) selected a new
Central Committee, marking the end of Hu Jintao’s
10-year term as General Secretary. The CPC
concluded its once-in-five year National Congress to
choose the party’s 18th Central Committee. It will
remain in power until 2017.
63. Inflation on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) declined
marginally to 7.45 per cent in October.
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64. The 2G spectrum auctions ended flat with nearly half
the spectrum seeing no bids and the government
winning revenues of only Rs. 9,407.64 crore, instead
of the Rs. 40,000 crore revenue targets.
65. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act,
2012 came into force this month. Under the Act, achild is defined as any person below the age of 18
and is gender-neutral.
66. Oman, the biggest egg-export market for India, has
once again passed an official decree banning import
of eggs and chicken from India.
67. Congress Rahul Gandhi will lead the party’s
campaign in the next general elections in 2014. Mr.
Gandhi will head a high-power, five-man Election Co-
ordination Committee to oversee all party activities.
68. Xi Jinping was pronounced the General Secretary of
the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the head of the party’s Central Military Commission.
69. Europe slipped into recession for the second time in
three years. The Eurozone’s economic output
further fell by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter.
These economies had already registered a 0.2 per
cent drop in the second quarter.
70. Public sector banks (PSBs) will hire 63,200 persons in
the current financial year, Finance Minister P.
Chidambaram said. The country’s largest bank SBI
will alone recruit 20,000 clerical staff and 1,200
officer level employees. There were 84,489vacancies at various levels in state-owned banks at
the end of the last financial year.
71. Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde claimed
that the government had information of terror
groups investing money in the Indian stock market.
72. The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh
took the lead in announcing candidates for the 2014
Lok Sabha election.
73. 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health will be
held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
74.
The firing of an Iran-made Fajr-5 missile by a Gazabased Palestinian group triggered conflict between
Palestinian and Israel. After a week of heavy
violence, Israel and the Hamas agreed to a ceasefire.
75. Mr. Chidambaram asked the RBI to finalise the
guidelines for new bank licences and start accepting
applications for the same pending passage of the
Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill.
76. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry is
considering allowing portability of LPG connections
among the three oil marketing companies.
77. Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray passed away on 17
November.
78. The Chinese film 11 Flowers won the Network for
the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award at
the 18th Kolkata International Film Festival in
Kolkata. It won the best film award in the Asian
Select category. This film is Directed by Wang
Xiaoshuai.
79. Freedom fighter and Gandhian C. Bandi Gowda who
participated in the Quit India movement, died.80. Amendments to the General Anti-Avoidance Rules
(GAAR), the controversial law against tax avoidance
through foreign investments, have been finalised,
Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said. Earlier
the government appointed a committee headed by
tax expert Parthasarthi Shome to look into their
concerns.
81. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived phnom
penh in Cambodia to attend ASEAN summit. Apart
from attending the India-ASEAN summit and the
East Asia Summit (10 ASEAN members - plus eightdialogue partners), Dr. Singh is expected to hold
half-a-dozen bilateral meetings including one with
Mr. Wen Jiabao.
82. National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon will
travel China to discuss Border dispute issue.
83. 43rd
International Film Festival of India (IFFI) started
in Panaji.
84. The Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation and the
Asian Development Bank signed a loan agreement of
US $ 315 million for executing the 450-MW
Shongtong Karcham Hydro Electric Project.85. A K-15 missile was successfully launched from a
pontoon off the Visakhapatnam coast with a range
of 700 Km.
86. President Barack Obama visited Myanmar and met
with Aung San Suu Kyi at the home Yangon where
she was long locked up.
87. The Developing Eight Organization (D-8) successfully
held its 8th Summit from 19-22 November 2012 in
Islamabad, Pakistan. It consists of
Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria
, Pakistan and Turkey.88. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) directed banks not
to give loans for purchase of gold in any form,
including primary gold, bullion and jewellery
89. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan has said those who indulge in eve-teasing
will not get driving licence, passport and other
government facilities.
90. Twelve alleged Khalistani militants were sentenced
to 10 years in jail for looting Rs.5.7 crore from a
currency chest of Reserve Bank of India in Punjab
National Bank dacoity case of 1987 in Ludhiana.
91. Nepal’s Maoist-led government announced
Constituent Assembly (CA) elections for Baisakh (first
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month in the calendar), between mid-April and mid-
May 2013.
92. A record 110 countries backed a resolution in U.N.
General Assembly for abolition of the death penalty.
93. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)
cleared Swedish furniture major IKEA’s Rs.10,500-crore project, the largest foreign direct investment
(FDI) in single-brand retail so far.
94. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving
gunman of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was
hanged in Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail on 21
November. This mission codenamed ‘X’.
95. B.K. Chaturvedi Committee set up for suggesting
measures for restructuring Hindustan Aeronautics
Ltd.
96. Ore Team, a steel and steel-making commodities
research house, will organise a two-day internationalconference on iron ore mining industry in Hyderabad
on December 13 and 14.
97. Nuthaki Priyanka in Vijayawada won the World
Under-10 chess championship in Slovenia.
98. More than 190 countries will meet for two weeks in
Qatar seeking to draft a work programme leading to
a new global climate deal to be signed by 2015 and
enter into force by 2020. It will replace Kyoto
Protocol.
99. The Government extended the term of Reserve Bank
Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn till December 31,2012.
100. On the action-packed first day of the winter session
of Parliament, the Trinamool Congress’s attempt to
bring a no-confidence motion against the UPA
government in the Lok Sabha failed.
101. Mr. Kapil Sibal recently led an Indian delegation to
Baku, Azerbaijan for International conference on
Internet Governance Forum.
102. Senior IPS officer Ranjit Sinha was appointed the
next Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation
on a two-year term.103. The government cleared the National
Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy that will bring 348
essential drugs under price control.
104. Lula da Silva, the former President of Brazil, was
conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,
Disarmament and Development for 2010.
105. Irish President Michael D Higgins came out in
support of the demand of Savita Halappanavar’s
family for an independent inquiry into her death.
Savita Halappanavar died in Ireland on October 28
after doctors refused to terminate her miscarriage
pregnancy on the ground that Ireland is a Catholic
Country.
106. Tony Hall was appointed the BBC’s Director-General.
107. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
approved sale of 9.5 per cent government stake out
of its holding of 84.50 per cent in NTPC.
108. Islamic banking is not permissible under existing
rules, RBI Governor D. Subbarao said.
109. DRDO shot down an electronically simulated“enemy” missile and a real attacker missile with an
actual interceptor in Wheeler Island, off the Odisha
coast.
110. Indian and Maldivian armies were in Belgaum to
review the fourth Indo-Maldives joint military
training exercise EKUVERIN-12.
111. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
had approved disinvestment of 9.59 per cent of
Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) through the stock
exchange mechanism of OFS (offer for sale).
112. Standard and Poor’s held to a downgraded AA+rating for France, and said the outlook remained
negative, four days after Moody’s cut its top rating
for the country by one notch.
113. Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal launched
“Aam Aadmi Party”. Arvind Kejriwal was elected
national convener of his newly formed ‘Aam Aadmi
Party’.
114. A proposal to set up a long-range missile launch
facility at Machilipatnam in Krishna district of
Andhra Pradesh in the advanced stages.
115. Direct cash transfer of subsidies through theAadhaar card will be rolled out in 51 districts across
15 States from January 1, 2013 announced. The
scheme would aim to cover the entire country by
the end of 2013, he said.
116. Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma
reelected with 58 per cent of votes.
117. Annual banking conference “Bancon-2012” was
inaugurated by Finance minister P. Chidambaram in
Pune.
118. Ram Jethmalani was expelled from BJP Party.
119. The Prime Minister-headed AppointmentsCommittee of Cabinet (ACC) has cleared the names
of Syed Asif Ibrahim for Director of Intelligence
Bureau for two years.
120. Alok Joshi was appointed as heads of Research &
Analysis Wing (RAW).
121. South Korean pop sensation PSY’s “Gangnam Style”
became YouTube’s most-watched video of all time,
registering more than 803 million views. His real
name is Park Jae-Sang.
122. The Supreme Court suggested that the Chief
Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka meet to find
a political solution to the Cauvery dispute in the
interests of farmers.
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123. World Conference on International
Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT) held at Dubai.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal participated in this
conference.
124. The delivery of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya from
Russia had been further delayed to the last quarterof 2013
125. Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, editors of
Zee News and Zee Business respectively, were
arrested on charges of extortion. The case were filed
by Naveen Jindal chairman of jindal Steel & Power
Ltd. (JSPL)
126. The Ashok Kumar Committee examined ways to
make air travel hassle-free for persons with
disabilities.
127. Gold prices surpassed all previous highs to set a new
record of Rs. 32,975 per 10 grams on demand fromretailers for the peak marriage season.
128. The month-long Sonepur mela, Asia’s biggest cattle
fair started at Sonepur in Saran district in Bihar.
129. Sri Lanka’s first satellite which was developed by a
private company SupremeSAT, was launched into
space from western China by a state-run Chinese
firm.
130. Rating agency Moody’s pegged India’s credit outlook
as ‘stable’ on account of its strong economic growth
and high savings and investment rates but cautioned
against the challenges of high fiscal deficit andpersistent inflationary pressure facing the economy.
131. Economic growth has slumped to a 10-year low in
the second quarter of the current fiscal to 5.3 per
cent in the quarter ending September 2012, lower
than the 5.5 per growth in gross domestic product
(GDP) clocked in the first quarter.
132. Driven by coal and petroleum refinery, eight core
sector industries registered eight-month high growth
of 6.5 per cent in October.
133. The government has raised Rs 932 crore through
disinvestment in PSUs during the current fiscal and isworking towards achieving the Rs 30,000 crore
target set for the year.
134. Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of poor
population at 7.37 crore, followed by Bihar and
Maharashtra in 2009-10.
135. Bihar has been the top performer among the major
states in terms of economic growth during the 11th
Five Year Plan. Only Sikkim and Goa, which are much
smaller in size than Bihar, have performed better
than Bihar. The worst performers include Jharkhand.
136. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) estimated India growth rate
for current fiscal year 4.4 per cent
137. India will receive record $70 billion remittances in
the year 2012 according to World Bank report
138. According to the 2013 Global ManufacturingCompetitiveness Index India is likely to emerge as
the second most competitive economy in the world
after China in terms of manufacturing in the next
five years.
139. A person may face criminal proceedings if a cheque
issued by him gets dishonoured on the ground that
his signature does not match the specimen signature
available with the bank, the Supreme Court has said.
140. A proposed acquisition by global banking giant HSBC
of another UK-based bank RBS' Indian retail and
commercial banking business has failed to fructify141. The Delhi government will launch the first direct
cash transfer scheme for food security — Dilli
Annashree Yojana — on December 15.
142. The Reserve Bank plans to gradually replace all Rs 10
bank notes with coins as life of the paper note is
very short.
143. ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar has been
named as the most powerful women in business in
India for the second consecutive year In the Fortune
list of 50 most powerful businesswomen.
144. Australian Westpac Banking Corp said it has openedits first branch in India that will offer wholesale and
retail banking services in Mumbai. Westpac has
operated in India through its representative office
since 2007, and was awarded a banking licence by
the Reserve Bank of India in April.
145. Kerala-based Muthoot Finance Ltd said it has tied up
with Pension Fund Regulatory and Development
Authority (PFRDA) to act as a service provider for the
National pension scheme.
146. The National Payments Corporation (NPCI) said the
banking system has reached a landmark of 1 lakhATMs (automated teller machines) at the end of
October.
147. Mastercard in Singapore has launched a new credit
card that has an LCD display and built-in keyboard.
148. A comprehensive international trade fair and
conference on textiles and apparel, “Vastra-2012”,
will be organised at the Export Promotion Industrial
Park at Sitapura in Uttar pradesh.
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