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  2. Vidyanjali - Wikipedia

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    Vidyanjali is a school volunteer programme and an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India to boost community and private sector participation in government schools, launched by Smriti Irani.

  3. Zamindar - Wikipedia

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    Sir Nawab Khwaja Salimullah was a zamindar with the title of nawab.His family's landholdings in Bengal were one of the largest in British India.. A zamindar [a] in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate).

  4. Tatkal scheme - Wikipedia

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    The Tatkal Scheme is a ticketing program established by Indian Railways. The scheme is used for booking journeys at very short notice. The Indian Railways introduced it in all forms of reserved classes on almost all trains in India. It was introduced in 1997, when Nitish Kumar was the Railway Minister of India. [1]

  5. Special settlements in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The term was in use earlier, in Imperial Russia, in two meanings: free settlement of peasants or cossacks (in the sense of being free from serfdom) and non-confined exile settlement (e.g., after serving a katorga term). In the Soviet Union, a decree of Sovnarkom of 1929 about labor camps [which?] said, in part: [citation needed]

  6. Indefinite leave to remain - Wikipedia

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    The first version of the new scheme was unveiled in October 2018 while the full operation of the scheme would only start when the UK leaves the EU. [26] On 1 November 2018, the Home Office launched a limited pilot of the scheme for certain persons working in higher education, health care or social care sectors and having access to an Android ...

  7. Investor–state dispute settlement - Wikipedia

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    Investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS), or an investment court system (ICS), is a set of rules through which states (sovereign nations) can be sued by foreign investors for certain state actions affecting the foreign direct investments (FDI) of that investor.

  8. Scheme of arrangement - Wikipedia

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    A scheme of arrangement (or a "scheme of reconstruction") is a court-approved agreement between a company and its shareholders or creditors (e.g. lenders or debenture holders). It may affect mergers and amalgamations and may alter shareholder or creditor rights.

  9. Clearing House Interbank Payments System - Wikipedia

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    CHIPS transfers are governed by Article 4A of Uniform Commercial Code. Unlike the Fedwire system which is part of a regulatory body, CHIPS is owned by the financial institutions that use it. For payments that are less time-sensitive in nature, banks typically prefer to use CHIPS instead of Fedwire, as CHIPS is less expensive (both by charges ...