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22th August 2012 Very Important News of the Day ::
( 1 ) The percentage of Indians living in urban areas has increased from 27.8 percent in 2001 to 31.16 percent in 2011.
( 2 ) India has the second highest percentage of underweight children below the age of five years according to the World Health Statistics report 2012.
( 3 ) The proposals of telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL to reduce their workforce by 1.21 lakh by offering voluntary retirement scheme ( VRS ) to staff will cost them over Rs 17,445 crore.
( 4 ) Congress member P J Kurien was unanimously elected deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha.
( 5 ) State-run IDBI Bank today became the first lender to come out with a floating rate deposit product after the Reserve Bank nudged banks to switch to such mode of deposits in July.
( 6 ) 48 people have been killed in clashes over land between pastoral and farming communities in Kenya’s southeast.
( 7 ) Indian business travellers are among the top spenders along with Singaporeans in the Asia Pacific, according to a survey by hospitality major Accor.
( 8 ) First Delhi International Film Festival in December, will be headed by Dada Sahib Phalke awardee Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
( 9 ) Air India’s post-merger losses, from 2007-08 to 2011-12, are over Rs 28,000 crore.
( 10 ) Retail inflation eases to 9.86% in July.
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