In Australia Open: Li Na becomes first Chinese woman to clinch title
Li Na made it third time lucky in the Australian Open final, beating Dominika Cibulkova 7—6 (3), 6—0 on 25 january 2014 to become the oldest woman to clinched the title.
Li, at 32 French Open to become the first Chinese woman to win a major.
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The Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas launched LPG Connection Portability Scheme across the country on 22 January 2014.
The scheme covers 480 districts in the country and all possible LPG markets which have multiple LPG distributors.
Under the scheme an LPG consumer can switch to the distributor of his or her choice within a cluster of LPG distributors in the vicinity.
The Procedure to opt for portability is very simple. No transfer fee or additional security deposit will be charged for transfer of connection under the scheme.
In 2013 OMCs companies launched LPG connection Portability Scheme as a pilot project in 24 districts covering 13 states.
The OMCs in India are Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum.
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India Posts to start rolling out ATMs from February getting a banking licence from the Reserve Bank of India, the Department of Posts will roll out its own ATMs
in New Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore,” Kapil Sibal, Minister for Communications and IT, said, after inaugurating a data centre for the postal department.
Following which, the postal department is planning to rollout 3,000 ATMs.
About 1,000 machines would be introduced in the first year.
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Vakrangee Ltd has received the Reserve Bank of India’s final authorisation of the White Label ATM licence.
Under this licence, Vakrangee is entitled to set up and run minimum 15,000 ATMs across the country in the next three years, sources close to the development said.
White-label ATMs are those which are not run by the banks but by a non-banking entity in its own brand name (like Vakrangee ATM) after passing through all the stringent qualification and due-diligence process undertaken by the RBI.
These ATMs will have all the functionalities like that of a bank-run ATMs.
For the ATM business, Vakrangee will focus more towards sub Tier-III towns with huge potential.
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Renowened scientist R.A. Mashelkar, yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, actors Vidya Balan and Paresh Rawal, sportspersons Yuvraj Singh, P. Gopichand and Dipika Pallikal are among the personalities who have been awarded the Padma awards( India's highest civilian honours, are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri and announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.) ahead of the Republic Day.
While Mashelkar and Iyengar have been conferred with Padma Bhushan, actors Balan and Rawal have been awarded the Padma Shri awards
Cricketer Yuvraj Singh, ace shuttler Gopichand and squash player Pallikkal have got Padma Shri awards.
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