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hello everybody, in few days i'll be leaving for a new great african experience: uganda and rwanda fot 3 weeks.we 'll be a 16 persons group by "avventure nel mondo" and i'm curios to see how the Jungle-africa is...after Botswana and savana landscapes of last summer.
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The 28-year-old Argentine is looking for a new club after AC Milan decided against signing the forward on a permanent basis after his six-month loan spell at San SiroMaxi Lopez has revealed that he is considering offers from "several" clubs, but insists that there has been "nothing concrete" in terms of either Parma or Napoli.
The Catania striker spent the second half of last season on loan at AC Milan, but the Rossoneri decided against taking up their option to sign the Argentine on a permanent basis.
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Lopez admitted, though, that he is still disappointed that AC Milan decided against extending his stay at San Siro.
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More News from Pocholo Concepcion
Jeff Lorber lives and breathes music. He formed the Jeff Lorber Fusion, which has released several commercially successful albums since 1977.
The keyboardist/composer/record producer performs tonight at the ballroom of Mandarin Oriental hotel in Makati. Playing with him are guitarist Nathan Phillips, saxophonist Eric Marienthal and drummer Sonny Emory.
He granted the Philippine Daily Inquirer an e-mail interview:
Blues and jazz musicians are known to get better with age. Why do you think so?
Having more experience, both musically and [in] life, can help you improve. I'm always trying to find new ways to express myself.
The Jeff Lorber Fusion put you in the limelight for a good number of years. Why did you disband it, and how did you put together the band's personnel for this show?
I decided to go in other musical directions and didn't think the word "fusion" described what I was doing. I also took a break for a number of years to focus on being a studio musician. Now I really like using fusion, which relates to a more exciting and ambitious kind of music.
Kenny G was a member of the band in 1980. Did you think he would become a big star?
I did a really exhaustive search when I was living in the Pacific Northwest to find a sax player and had a tough time finding the right musician for the band. The one quality that I noticed in Kenny, besides his musical ability, was his positive vibe and interest in the same musical dream that I had. During the time that he played with me, I think he grew a lot musically.
You played the piano at age 4. What got you interested in jazz?
There was a lot of music around the house. My mother was an accomplished piano player and she would play quite often, as well as my two older sisters who were taking piano lessons. That made me want to get in on the fun.
I had a lot of cousins. In the 1960s there was a lot of great music being created. When all the cousins would get together, a few of them were into folk music and played guitars. I wasn't interested in that.
I was lucky to have some other cousins who were into jazz.
One in particular, my cousin Stuart, had a drum set and would listen a lot to Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner. That's how I got introduced to jazz.
How relevant is jazz fusion in contemporary times?
I wish it was more relevant. It was great to see a big audience when we played in Taipei a few days ago, and they were mostly young people. Unfortunately in the States the jazz audience is an older demographic. In general, there is probably not quite as much great jazz being created as there was in the '60s and '70s. But there are many fine musicians out there who are wonderful performers. I'm doing my best to help keep jazz vital and alive.
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The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington outside the Gallery of Modern Art has been given a Yes flag by some cheeky independence campaigners.
For good measure, the Duke himself is wearing a Yes cone.
One passer by said: "You wonder how they managed to get the flag up there without being seen."
The statue and its traffic cones have become a famous Glasgow emblem.
Last year, however, Glasgow City Council announced plans to deter the vandalism of the statue by raising the statue to make it inaccessible.
But a protest petition attracted 10,000 signatures, and the council later backed down.
The Yes materials were taken down yesterday.
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Fiji Time: 10:35 AM on Sunday 31 May
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Dawn Gibson
Thursday, February 13, 2014
WITH Julie Bishop expected to be in the country this week, the government hopes to address fundamental issues between Australia and Fiji.
Some of the issues, according to Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, include travel issues with members of Fiji's judiciary and tax paid to the country.
At a press conference, Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said although there was talk about relations getting better between Fiji and Australia, these issues need to be addressed.
"We understand we have a meeting with her and I think the fact that we still have ordinary apolitical Fijians who are sitting on boards and want to assist sitting on the scholarship board and various other boards and then to say, 'we'll deal with it on a case by case basis', it really does not hold any water," Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said.
"The reality is that Fiji is on its way to holding elections but to still hold out on those types of matters I think is abomination."
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said Australia's judicial system, unlike Fiji's, did not have a Judicial Services Commission (JSC).
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Critical Review by John Romano
SOURCE: "A Novel of Hope and Realism," in The New York Times Book Review, April 4, 1982, p. 7.
In the review below, Romano celebrates the classical emphasis on human truths and values of Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful.
Alan Paton's first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, is one of the few works by a contemporary writer one would risk calling a classic; in the case of that novel, published in 1948, the word has a rather specific meaning. The idea of a classic is historically bound up with the view, powerfully embodied in Paton's book, that there are certain perdurable human truths and values, immune from geographical or historical vitiation. The classical view, with its Judeo-Christian modifications, acknowledges that we are flawed, but not therefore ignoble; the classical view is famously realistic about our limitations, but celebrates our sense of possibility and the idea of hope. Indeed, the one ignoble thing, from the classical perspective, is despair.
Paton has spent his long life—he will be 80 next year—in circumstances in which despair might long since have seemed reasonable. As a white man in his native South Africa, he has written nearly a dozen books in support of the struggle for racial equality there. He taught school in the outlying districts, managed reformatories, was a founder of the Liberal Party and saw it suppressed by the Government. And yet Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful shows no slackening of either his hope or his realism. This novel is as vigorously and as exquisitely written as anything he has produced. It has the eloquence, the special commingling of sweetness and anger, the Orwellian force and lucidity, familiar to readers of Too Late the Phalarope (1953), his second novel, and several other volumes since. Its tone is quietly anguished. Its classical appeal is based on a direct and simple confidence that the facts of his country's moral disaster will move all men and women, all at once, in the same direction.
Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful is a novel in the form of a pastiche-memoir of the Defiance Campaign and the Liberal Party in the 1950's. The narrative is made up of letters, reflections, character sketches, bits of dialogue, the transcripts of a trial, a summary of newspaper accounts and scraps of official documents juxtaposed or sewn together by a narrator who seems himself the possessor of a long, patient, irresistible historical vision. It begins with the arrest of an Indian girl, Prem, a lovingly drawn character, for deliberately using a white library in violation of the color bar. (American readers will be interested in the multi-racial character of the rights struggle in South Africa; it's not simply a matter of blacks and whites.) Prem's story recurs throughout the novel and includes her love affair with a white student activist, the son of a prominent Government official. The novel also traces the careers of several white leaders of the new Liberal Party, in particular Robert Mansfield, a respectable upper-middle-class headmaster and former soccer star, who is ultimately driven to emigrate to Australia by the fierce hatred his espousal of the cause of equality arouses. There are glimpses, too—and these are among the most telling moments in the novel-into the minds of some South Africans who are opposed to racial equality: an Afrikaner civil servant whose letters to his aunt defend the new apartheid policies, a spinsterish character who writes hate letters signed "Proud Christian White Woman" and whose letters reek of diseased fascination/abhorrence of interracial sex. The episodic threads are brought together by the sudden imposition of new and strict apartheid measures in 1958, as the Afrikaner Nationalist Party comes to power. The persecution of anti-apartheid forces grows quickly more severe: newspapers are suppressed and 150 black and white activists and politicians are arrested. In the novel's final darkest pages a character who is transparently Dr. Henrik Verwoerk has become Prime Minister, and the bitterest and most hopeless period in the South African struggle for equality—a period which extends to the present—has begun.
The cumulative anecdotal force of Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful is difficult to convey. Considering its abundant violence, the passion of its advocacy, and the hatred it matter-of-factly reports, the book is remarkably gentle. Something of its anomalous calm, and one hopes its effectiveness, can be found in the following passage, an elegy to Sophiatown, a "blackspot" within the white quarter of Johannesburg that was physically broken up by the Government in 1955. Father Trevor Huddleston, a white Anglican priest, and a real historical figure, spent long years working in the vice-ridden slum.
Sophiatown had become to him the home of all things lovely. It was the place where old men and women came into the great church of Christ the King on their hands and knees. The humility and faith of it smote him in the inward parts. It was the place where small black children ran out from the houses to hold the hand of the father. It was the place where he and Sister Dorothy Maud could walk safe at any hour of the day or night.
"—I have killed a man.
"—Now now. In Sithole's yard.
"—You were gambling.
"—You promised me.
"—I promised you, Father, but I broke it.
"—What happened?
"—This man played a card that was not in his hand. I said, That card was not in your hand. So he pulled out his knife.
"—And you pulled out yours?
"—Yes, Father.
"—Which you promised not to carry.
"—I repent, Father.
"—Go on.
"—He would have killed me, but I struck first. In a minute he was dead.
"—And everyone saw it?
"—Yes, Father.
"—Let us pray, Michael, then we shall go to the police.
"—Let us pray then.
This quietly forceful exchange—unprepared for and never alluded to again—emerges abruptly in the text. It is an example of Paton's characteristic method. Individual human dilemmas are never swallowed up or diminished by the overarching political context of the story he is telling. Paton is relentless in his faith in the moral meaning of individual human experience. The incident is an ugly one; but Michael's confession restores to him the dignity of which he has nearly robbed himself. Paton's faith is not a religious one, but a faith in the function, the usefulness of personal sympathy.
We can ameliorate any situation we can describe in language; communication and empathy are the truly revolutionary forces in this novel, where people are converted to causes not by argument but by, as one of them puts it, "a lump in the throat."
Alan Paton's considerable practical contributions to political life in South Africa aside, his place in the literature of social protest has been secured by the his steady devotion to the ideal of the empathetic imagination in fiction.
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Airtel Africa has signed a partnership agreement with DSTV that will see the two organisations working together to air a weekly TV show, called 'Airtel Football'.
The TV show is set to focus on different aspects of the sport across the continent.
Grassroots football is part of Airtel Africa's vision to develop and nurture young football talent and compliments Africa's largest pan African youth football initiative, supported by Airtel and Manchester United, called the Airtel Rising Stars.
DStv will cover live football matches in various countries, leading towards a pan African inter-country final of the Airtel Rising Stars youth tournament being held in Nairobi later this year. The show will also trace the career paths of African footballers, demonstrating sporting journeys that have led to fame and success.
"We have always believed that football has the ability to develop and connect youth across the continent," explains Andre Beyers, chief marketing officer, Airtel Africa.
"This was the rationale behind our pan African football tournament and talent development program, Airtel Rising Stars, which is now into its second year. The enthusiasm Africa has for the sport is undeniable. Our decision to be involved in this new show compliments our ongoing commitment to support the passions of our young adult consumers."
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'Airtel Football' focuses on different aspects of the sport across the continent and airs on DStv's SuperSport 9 (SS9) every Monday at 9PM (CAT). Aside from profiling African footballers, the fast-paced half hour show explores a wide range of topics including insights on the sports fraternity, culture across various African countries and major tournaments/games being played on the continent.
"One of our goals during this second season of the Airtel Rising Stars initiative was to take an already successful property to the next level of awareness and excitement across the continent. We will showcase the various experiences of youth football across Africa in an interesting format. We are glad to partner with DSTV Africa and will use their expertise, contacts and knowledge of the sports world to bring youth experiences to life on television. Africa is rich in diversity, yet similar in so many ways." added Beyers.


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MORELAND ŌĆö Mill Creek Metals, LLC, is a recycling center serving Southeast Idaho. Steve Peterson, his wife Kittie and their sons Lex, Trevor, Hans and Cooper ŌĆö are the owners and operators of the business. They have been in business since 2004 and are on 10 acres at 182 N. 760 W. in Moreland.
The business started out as a metal salvage business but has expanded significantly in the last seven years.
Mill Creek is currently under contract with Bingham County to run the transfer station. At the transfer station, cardboard and some plastics are recycled along with all metals.
BLACKFOOT ŌĆö It's an interview that I both loathed and loved to have. On one hand my favorite high school teacher and coach is riding into the sunset, leaving a void that the flooding Snake River could never fill.
On the other hand, a man among men is entering into the best times of his life. He is free as he says and now embarks upon yet another chapter in the life and times of Brian Barlow.
Here is a few words from the man. The myth. The legend.
Mark High - Coach you've spent 30 years in the same district both coaching and teaching. Did you ever consider leaving during that time?
BLACKFOOT ŌĆö When their children were at home, Lamar and Barbara Robertson of Blackfoot planted a large garden on their two-plus acres of ground.
But when the children left and their tiller broke, they lost interest in gardening for a time.
Today the Robertsons are among a growing group of people who participate in what is known as four-square gardening. They have four raised beds in the area behind their house.
"I heard some ladies talking about it at the temple one day last year," Barbara recalled. "So I bought the book (Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew).
BLACKFOOT ŌĆö Due to flooding conditions in eastern Idaho, Governor C.L. ŌĆ£ButchŌĆØ Otter has declared a State Declaration of Emergency in support of Bingham and Jefferson Counties. The State Declaration, approved by the governor today, brings the availability of state support to the impacted areas.
Lori Hammond, 55, of Blackfoot passed away Tuesday, May 24, 2011, at Portneuf Regional Medical Center in Pocatello.┬Ā
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BLACKFOOT ŌĆö Driver Education will no longer be offered as a class at Blackfoot High School, but students will still have the opportunity to take the course before school or during the summer.
Dan Hale will no longer be teaching Driver Education as a class and incoming freshmen can take five classes in addition to Driver Education, which will be offered before school each block. Gerald Humpherys, who also taught Driver Ed, is retiring.
BLACKFOOT ŌĆö The National Weather Service continues to issue flood warnings for the Snake River in Blackfoot and Shelley.
A spring-like weather pattern is expected to bring intervals of showers and fluctuating temperatures to the region throughout the week and is expected to melt snowpack in an manageable fashion, according to the National Weather Service.
The Snake River at Blackfoot is forecast to rise at least another six inches over the next four days, cresting at 11.54 feet by Saturday evening. On Tuesday night, the river was 10.9 feet. Flood stage is 10 feet.
SHELLEY ŌĆö One hundred fifty-six Shelley graduates received a rousing send-off Tuesday evening at their graduation ceremony.
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Preciado took visits to San Jose State, Colorado State and Columbia and was also offered by Dartmouth and Brown. He visited Boise State this past weekend and saw all he needed to see.
"The atmosphere that Coach Harsin and the rest of the staff are creating at Boise State is amazing," Preciado said. "It's a place where you believe in each other and know that we are going to do great things in the future.
"I felt a real connection with the players on the team and the other recruits that I didn't feel on any other visit. It just felt right to me, it's a perfect fit and I can't wait to get out there and get started."
Preciado said he felt a big weight off his back after making the call to commit to the Bronco staff.
"First I called up Coach Huff and committed to him," Preciado said. "After I hung up the phone, I felt the biggest sigh of relief, it felt so good to have the decision out of the way. Then Coach Harsin called me and it was cool talking to him as well. Just to know where I'll be spending the next chapter of my life is huge and I'm anxious to start putting in the hard work that football demands."


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Happy Holidays, NHL fans! What better way to celebrate the Holiday season than by watching two greedy groups of people squabble over how to reach common ground over our favorite sport? Darren Dreger announced through Twitter that the NHL will cancel all games through December 30th, officially making Gary Bettman our Scrooge and Donald Fehr our Grinch of the 2012 Holiday season. The NHL canceling another chunk of games barely qualifies as news these days. In fact, at this stage it was almost a certainty that more games would be cut as the last round of cancelations only lasted through the 14th of December. The optimist might believe that considering the two sides aren't too far off from a deal that we might be enjoying hockey on New Year's Day. The pessimist (perhaps the realist) will use today's cancelations and the various quotes from the two sides as further proof that 2012-13 is likely doomed. It can be assumed that this might be the final warning given by the NHL. It's believed that if there still isn't a deal in place as we approach December 30th, the NHL will deem that 2012-13 is a lost cause. In summary, it's now or never for the NHL and the NHLPA to put their differences aside to save what's left of the current season. [followDavid] [follow]
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Burrows offered the following statement by phone on Thursday:
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IT might just look like a glass tube but it provides boiled water, rendered safe by natural power from the sun. That is the solar kettle for you, an earth-friendly product invented by solar enthusiast Alex Kee.
"The solar kettle is the answer to providing safe drinking water to the global poor and needy, in a sustainable and renewable way, with compliments from the sun," says Kee, an IT businessman who dabbles in solar energy out of pure interest.
The kettle is made up of two glass tubes, one encased in the other. You fill it up with water, leave it in the sun for an hour or two, and you get boiled water. Kee, 50, had in mind rural places with no piped water or electricity when he designed the solar kettle.
"Building fire involves time and work to collect firewood. With the solar kettle, you just leave it in the sun. It is suitable for places like Africa, where fuel is scarce and collecting firewood is causing deforestation. It is also a survival tool when you go to places with questionable water quality."
The glass tubes are the standard ones used for solar thermal water heaters but no one had thought of using them to boil water until Johor Baru-based Kee came along.
"It is a simple idea but the novelty is in the design," says Kee, who conceived the solar kettle in 2002.
Made from borosilicate (Pyrex) glass, the tubes are more than 70% efficient in converting solar energy into thermal energy. A vacuum between the two glass tubes, as well as two layers of coatings on the inner tube, ensures maximum heat absorption and minimal heat loss. This raises temperatures inside the tube to above boiling point.
The 0.75m-long tubes are manufactured in China according to Kee's specifications, and each stores 1 litre, or four cups, of water. The tube also functions as a thermos flask, keeping boiled water warm until needed. When packed in its padded carry case together with a stopper and stand, it weighs 1.2kg, so it is portable.
As the temperature inside the tube can soar to 220°C, it can cook too. A scaled-up version of the kettle, with the tube diameter widened from 5cm to 10cm for easier food placement and retrieval, is what Kee calls the solar oven. He has boiled sweet potatoes and even baked pizzas in it. For pizza, he spreads a strip of dough on a metal sheet (for easier removal from the tube), adds the topping, pops it into the tube and it is done 30 minutes later.
"You can also cook rice but you have to watch it closely as the temperature can go up and burn the rice."
He is not selling the solar oven yet since he needs funds to order the first 1,000 units. As for the solar kettle, Kee has sold less than 100 units so far, through direct sales and mail order, and mostly to foreigners. "They just like the idea, and some buy to donate to rural folks."
Various corporations and charitable groups have made enquiries but none have made bulk orders for his invention, priced at RM200 each.
"The people who need it are too poor to afford it. So my vision is to get aid to donate the solar kettles to rural folks and the orang asli. If I can get a grant to order the tubes in bulk, the price can be halved."
It is a pity that the solar kettle is not getting the attention it deserves. By tapping the boundless, renewable and free power of the sun, it is the kind of sustainable product the world should be making and using. – By Tan Cheng Li
For more on the solar kettle, go to solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Alex_Kee
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Real Time Underlying Inflation Gauges for Monetary Policymakers
|December 2009Number 420
|JEL classification: C13, C33, C43, E31, E37
Authors: Marlene Amstad and Simon Potter
Central banks analyze a wide range of data to obtain better measures of underlying inflationary pressures. Factor models have widely been used to formalize this procedure. Using a dynamic factor model this paper develops a measure of underlying inflation (UIG) at time horizons of relevance for monetary policymakers for both CPI and PCE. The UIG uses a broad data set allowing for high-frequency updates on underlying inflation. The paper complements the existing literature on U.S. "core" measures by illustrating how UIG is used and interpreted in real time since late 2005.


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BSE:532179 | NSE:CORPBANKEQ | 58888:corp | IND:Finance - Banks - Public Sector | ISIN code:INE112A01023 | SECT:Banks
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2. Performance at a glance :
2.1 The total business reached an impressive level of Rs.3,30,479 crore as on 31st March, 2014, recording an absolute growth of Rs.45,757 crore over the business figure of Rs.2,84,722 crore as on 31.03.2013, at a growth rate of 16.07%.
2.2 The total deposits of the Bank increased to Rs.1,93,393 crore as on 31.03.2014 from Rs.1,66,005 crore as on 31st March, 2013 registering a growth of 16.50% y-o-y.
2.3 Share of CASA in total deposits stood at 20.33% as on 31.03.2014 as compared to 21.68% as on 31.03.2013. Savings Deposits grew at a rate of 17.91%
2.4 The Bank continued its prudent approach in expanding quality credit assets in line with its policy on Credit Risk Management. The Bank''s credit figure reached a level of Rs.1,37,086 crore as on 31.03.2014 from Rs.1,18,717 crore as on 31st March, 2013, recording an absolute growth of Rs.18,369 crore at a growth rate of 15.47%. During the financial year, focused attention was given for accelerated lending under Agriculture, Priority sector, SMEs and midsize corporate and retail segments for expansion of credit.
2.5 Credit-Deposit Ratio stood at 70.88% as on 31.03.2014 as compared to 71.51% as on 31.03.2013.
2.6 The Bank continued its drive for recovery of NPAs. During the financial year, the Bank effected a cash recovery and upgradation of NPAs of Rs.1,355.53 crore as compared to Rs.1,509.30 crore in the previous financial year.
2.7 Despite the economic slowdown and prevailing adverse situation, the Bank recorded a fairly good performance in different functional areas during the financial year 2013- 14. The bank posted a Net Profit figure of Rs.561.72 crore.
2.8 As on 31.03.2014, the Bank had 8,617 functional units spread across 28 States comprising of 2,021 Branches, 2,264 ATMs and 4,332 Branchless banking units.
3. Income Analysis
3.1 Interest Income of the Bank recorded a growth of Rs.2,624.49 crore (17.12%) from Rs.15,334.08 crore in the year 2012-13 to Rs.17,958.57 crore, as against the Interest expenses which grew by 19.03% from Rs.11,908.23 crore during the financial year 2012-13 to Rs.14,174.88 crore during the year 2013-14. The Net Interest Income recorded a growth of Rs.357.84 crore [10.45%] during the same period.
(Rs. in crore)
Particulars 2012-13 2013-14 Change in %
Interest Income 15,334.08 17,958.57 17.12%
Non-Interest Income 1,607.94 1,647.72 2.47%
Total Income 16,942.02 19,606.29 15.73%
Interest Expenditure 11,908.23 14,174.88 19.03%
Operating Expenses 1,996.79 2,392.01 19.79%
Total Expenditure 13,905.02 16,566.89 19.14%
Operating Profit 3,037.00 3,039.40 0.08%
Provisions & Contingencies (Excl. Tax) 1351.40 2,797.71 107.02%
Profit before Tax 1,685.60 241.69 -85.66%
Provision for Tax 250.93 -320.03 -227.54%
Net Profit 1,434.67 561.72 -60.85%
3.2 The total Income of the Bank [total of Interest Income and Non-Interest Income] improved to Rs.19,606.29 crore during the financial year 2013-14 from Rs.16,942.02 crore in the previous financial year recording a rise of Rs.2,664.27crore [15.73%].
3.3 Non-Interest Income from Core Areas increased by Rs.90.60 crore [9.18%] from Rs.986.79 crore in the financial year 2012-13 to Rs.1,077.39 crore in the financial year 2013-14. The Total Non-Interest Income has increased from Rs.1,607.94 crore as on 31.03.2013 to Rs.1,647.72 crore as on 31.03.2014 by 2.47%.
3.4 The Operating Expenses has shown an increase of 19.79% during the financial year 2013-14 and stood at Rs.2,392.01 crore as compared to Rs.1,996.79 crore in 2012-13.
4. Spread Analysis
(Rs. in crore)
Growth Particulars 2012-13 2013-14 Absolute %
Average Working Funds 1,62,800.00 1,95,005.00 32,205.00 19.78%
Total Interest Income 15,334.08 17,958.57 2,624.49 17.12%
Total Interest Expended 11,908.23 14,174.88 2,266.65 19.03%
Interest Spread 3,425.85 3,783.69 357.84 10.45%
Particulars 2012-13 2013-14
Yield on Funds 9.42% 9.21%
Cost of Funds 7.31% 7.27%
Yield on Advances 11.65% 11.29%
Cost of Deposits 8.12% 8.03%
Net Interest Margin 2.29% 2.10%
5. Operating Profit
5.1 The Operating Profit increased by a marginal amount and stood at Rs.3,039.40 crore as at the end of March, 2014, as compared to Rs.3,037 crore as on 31.03.2013.
5.2 The Asset Utilisation Ratio [percentage of Operating Profit to Average Working Funds] stood at 1.56% for the financial year 2013-14 compared to 1.87% for the financial year 2012-13.
6. Provisions
6.1 The Provision for Bad and Doubtful Debts, Provision on Standard Assets, Taxation, Investment Depreciation and others aggregated to Rs. 2,477.68 crore in the financial year 2013-14 as compared to Rs. 1,602.33 crore in the financial year 2012-13.
7. Net Profit and Dividend
7.1 Due to the increased provision, the Net Profit of the Bank has come down from Rs.1,434.67 crore for the previous financial year to Rs.561.72 crore for the year ended 31.03.2014.
Net Profit Year Growth % [Rs.in crore]
2011-12 1,506.04 6.56
2012-13 1,434.67 (-)4.74
2013-14 561.72 (-)60.85
7.2 The Bank has already paid an Interim Dividend of 45% (Rs.4.50 per equity share of Rs.10.00 each). In addition to the above, the Board of Directors has recommended a Final Dividend of 22.50% for the financial year 2013-14. The total dividend during the financial year 2013-14 thus works out to Rs.6.75 per share of Rs. 10/- each.
7.3 In terms of extant guidelines, the Bank will pay the Dividend Distribution Tax for the Financial Year 2013-14. Accordingly, the total outflow on account of Dividend for the year 2013-14 will be Rs. 132.31crore including the Dividend Distribution Tax.
7.4 Out of the Net Profit a sum of Rs.202.16 crore was appropriated to Statutory & General Reserves, Rs.207 crore was transferred to Special Reserve, Rs.23.17 crore to Capital Reserve, Rs.1.54 crore to Investment Reserve. Also Rs.15 crore was appropriated towards Staff Welfare Fund.
8. Net Worth and CRAR
8.1 The Net Worth of the Bank improved to Rs.10,085 crore as on 31st March, 2014 from Rs.9,566 crore as on 31st March, 2013.
8.2 During the year 2013-14, the Bank has issued and allotted 1,46,27,486 Equity shares of the face value of Rs.10/- each at an issue price of Rs.307.64 per share, amounting to Rs.450 crore for infusion of capital by Government of India, on preferential basis, to further strengthen its CRAR under Basel III capital. Under Tier I and Tier II, no fresh bonds were issued during the year 2013-14.
8.3 The Capital to Risk Adjusted Assets Ratio (CRAR) stood at 12.21% (Basel II)as on 31st March, 2014 as against 12.33% as on 31st March, 2013 which is above the norm stipulated by Reserve Bank of India. The CRAR as per Basel III guidelines works out to 11.64%.
Category Basel III Basel II March March March March 2013 2014 2013 2014
Tier I Capital NA 8.14% 8.33% 8.37%
Tier II Capital NA 3.50% 4.00% 3.84%
Total NA 11.64% 12.33% 12.21%
8.4 The Return on Equity, Earnings per Share and Book Value per Share for the Financial Year 2013-14 stood at 5.72%, Rs.35.75 and Rs.601.95 respectively, as against 16.27%, Rs.96.74 and Rs.645.76 respectively for the previous Financial year.
9. Consolidated Accounts
9.1 As per RBI guidelines, the Bank has consolidated the financial accounts as at 31st March, 2014 with those of its wholly owned Subsidiary viz., Corp Bank Securities Ltd. As per the consolidated statement as on 31st March, 2014, the Net Worth of the Corp Bank group stood at Rs.10,120 crore as compared to Rs.9,603 crore as at 31st March, 2013. The consolidated Operating Profit and Net Profit for the financial year 2013-14 are Rs.3,049.35 crore and Rs.568.48 crore, respectively, compared to Rs.3,050.37 crore and Rs.1,443.24 crore, respectively, for the financial year 2012-13. The Bank has complied with the RBI guidelines and the Accounting Standards prescribed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
10. Bank''s Service Outlets
10.1 The Bank''s total service outlets crossed 8,600 mark during the year ended 31st March, 2014 to reach 8,617 service outlets, comprising of 2,021 branches, 2,264 ATMs and 4,332 Branchless Banking Units across the country. Out of these 314 branches (including 111 branches opened in unbanked rural centres), 839 ATMs and 787 Branchless banking Units were opened during the year. The Bank is also having its representative offices at Hongkong and Dubai for catering to the existing and prospective NRI customers. Out of the total 2,021 branches, 501 branches are in Rural areas, 672 in Semi-urban centres, 427 in Urban areas and 421 in Metro centres. Similarly, of the total 2,264 ATMs, 269 are in rural areas, 661 in Semi-urban centres, 682 in urban areas and 652 are in metros.
10.2 To exploit the potential of Eastern Region of India and to have a focused approach for business development in that region, the Bank has opened a new Zonal office at Bhubaneswar in the state of Odisha, during the year which has started functioning from 7th August, 2013.
With the above, the Bank now has a total of 32 zonal offices spread across the country to have a better control, monitoring and guiding the branches for the development of the Bank''s business. The Bank also has 6 Circle offices headed by General Managers operating at Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. The Circle offices function as an extended arm of the Corporate Office, better equipped to support and drive business development plans of the Zonal Offices in their Command area. The Corporate office functions that are delegated to Circle offices are Planning, Development and Resource Mobilisation, Credit Sanctions, Credit Risk Management, Recovery and Legal, Human Resource Management, Support Services and Inspection and Audit.
11. Advertisement and Publicity
11.1 During the year, concerted efforts were made for enhancing the brand and image building of the Bank. The Bank continued to disseminate messages on its products, services, interest rates and its performance to the customers, shareholders and the general public through advertisements and publicity in Newspapers, Periodicals, TV Channels, FM Radio Stations, Hoardings, Translites, Website, ATMs, etc.
12. Government Business and Bancassurance
12.1 The total Direct/Indirect tax and Customs duty collections of the Bank for the year ended 31st March, 2014 reached Rs. 43,125 crore from 17.33 lakh challans as compared to Rs.43,136 crore from 15.87 Lakh challans collected during the last year. The total State VAT collections for the year ended 31st March, 2014, reached Rs.5,884 crore from 5.05 Lakh challans as against Rs.4,920 crore from 3.62 Lakh challans collected last year, with a significant growth rate of 19.59% and 39.50% respectively under amount collected and challans handled.
12.2. The Bank has earned an aggregate income of Rs.8.69 crore under Govt. Business during the FY ended March, 2014 as compared to Rs.8.88 crore earned last year. The downward revision of commission from Rs.45 to Rs.12 per challan in case of e-payments effective from1st July, 2012, has impacted the income generated out of tax collection.
12.3 Some of the new initiatives undertaken by the Bank during the year are – Extension of E-stamping facility to the States of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, Commencement of online payment of pension to telecom pensioners, through the Centralized Pension Processing Cell set up at Corporate Office, Registration of over 4000 employees under the Corporate New Pension Scheme, entering into tie-up arrangement with Geojit BNP Paribas for providing online trading platform for the Bank''s clients and entering into tie-up arrangement with M/s UTI Infrastructure Technology & Services Ltd., for Issue of PAN card coupons through 57 branches.
12.4 Bancassurance : Bank has been aggressively marketing Bancassurance products like Life insurance and General insurance. During the year, the Bank has earned an income of Rs.10.85 crore from this business, registering an absolute growth of Rs.2.58 crore at 31.13%. Under life insurance, while the bank has earned an income of Rs.7.17 crore registering a growth of 28.34%, under general insurance, the bank earned Rs.3.20 crore registering a growth of 60.15%.
13. Corporate Social Responsibility:
13.1 As a responsible Corporate citizen, the Bank initiated several welfare measures aiming at the under privileged section of the society in fulfillment of its commitment to social priorities during the financial year 2013-2014.
13.2 Support to Societal Concerns:
13.2.1 Assistance to Uttarakhand:
The State of Uttarakhand was hit by torrential rains followed by cloudbursts, landslides and flash floods, washing away dwelling houses, roads and bridges. As a responsible Corporate Citizen, the Bank donated Rupees One crore to the Chief Minister''s Relief Fund, Uttarakhand, towards relief and rehabilitation of the victims.
13.2.2 Other CSR initiatives:
The Bank has also involved itself with several initiatives in the field of Education, Development of infrastructure, Rural development, Health and Hygiene and Promotion of Art and Culture. The Bank supported many institutions who have been serving the Destitute, Orphans, Senior citizens and Special Children, etc.
13.3 Corporation Bank Economic Development Foundation [CBEDF]
The Corporation Bank Economic Development Foundation® a non-profit economic outfit Trust was launched in the year 1992 and continues to fulfill its social obligation in tune with corporate mission. The objective of the trust is to carry out or assist in carrying out economic development activities to help people realize their full potential for economic advancement, social development and to raise quality of their life. Financial grants to the extent of Rs.74.22 lakh were disbursed for execution of various projects of social concerns during the year 2013-14. The areas of assistance included providing ambulance, transport vehicle and Dialysis Machine for hospitals, assistance for construction of class rooms, library building and open-air theatre in schools, providing furniture, drinking water facility and water- filter-cum-purifier in schools etc.
13.4 CSR Activities through "CorpKiran"
During the year, the Bank formed Women Welfare Associations under the name "CorpKiran" to extend the CSR activities through Circle Offices and Zonal Office levels, in addition to Head Office. The Bank granted Rs.10.64 lakh to various institutions during the year for CSR activities through "CorpKiran". The activities included providing of food, clothing, books etc., to poor school children and inmates of orphanages, old age homes, destitute homes, helping physically and mentally challenged people, extending medical help to poor people in distress, supporting green initiatives, conducting awareness programmes and other community development activities benefitting poor people. In 2014-15 the Bank will extend the activities of "CorpKiran" to more number of Institutions and beneficiaries, throughout the country.
13.5 Corporation Bank Self Employment Training Institutes [COBSETI]
The Corporation Bank Self Employment Training Institutes, established on 22.03.1996 in Chikmagalur, and the other in Kodagu on 23.01.2013 are sponsored by the Bank to cater to the training needs of the rural un-employed youth hailing from the districts of Chikmagalur and Kodagu, where the Bank has the Lead Bank responsibility. The training is imparted free of cost with free boarding and lodging, to the trainees. The trained youth are also assisted in getting credit facilities from banks to set up self-employment ventures. 25,121 candidates have been trained by both the institutes since inception. 9,831 candidates were trained under regular EDPs, of which 6,685 have settled indicating a success rate of 68%. The Bank has incurred an expenditure of Rs.25.25 lakh during the year for conducting the training programmes at both the Institutes. COBSETI, Chikmagalur has been graded as "AA" Training Institute by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India for the year 2013.
13.6 "Gramina Abhyudaya Financial Literacy and Credit Counseling Trust" [GAFLCC Trust]
13.6.1 The Bank has sponsored "Gramina Abhyudaya Financial Literacy and Credit Counseling Trust" [GAFLCC Trust] for establishment of "Financial Literacy-cum-Credit Counseling Centres" [FLCCs] at various locations. These Centres educate people who are yet to avail the Banking services, about the usefulness of the Bank account for their economic needs and empowerment. The Centres also provide counseling for the borrowers on the basis of financial aspects including insurance, savings and credit related products/services in the Bank etc. As on 31.03.2014 GAFLCC Trust has established 4 District level and 14 Block level FLCC centers.
13.6.2 The Bank has provided Rs.60.98 Lakh for meeting the capital and recurring cost of the Trust and for establishment of new centers, during the year 2013-14. The Trust has conducted 1,918 Financial Literacy Camps at schools, colleges, other institutions, SHGs and others, involving 1,21,456 persons. The trust has also conducted credit counseling to 4,421 persons in the villages. Further, 791 persons were counseled through mobile phone.
14. Progressive use of Official Language:
14.1 The Bank ensures compliance of the provisions of Official Languages Act, 1963, Official Languages Rules, 1976 and various directions with regard to Official Language issued from time-to-time by Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Financial Services Department, Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of India.
14.2 The overall performance of the Bank in the field of official language implementation during the year 2013-14 has been very good and it has been lauded by the Ministry of Finance. Hindi workshops and training programmes were conducted on a regular basis for the benefit of staff members.
14.3 The Bank is the convenor of Town Official Language Implementation Committee (TOLIC), Mangalore, Belgaum, Vijayawada and Nellore as well as that of the Official Language Committee of South Based Public Sector Banks. Various activities are conducted every year for the benefit of staff members of member organisations/ banks.
14.4 During the Financial Year, the Third Sub-Committee of the Committee of Parliament on Official Language visited the Bank''s Headquarters and appreciated the efforts being made by the Bank in official language Implementation. The Joint Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance and Joint Director (OL) also inspected the Bank with regard to official language implementation during the year. The Ministry expressed its satisfaction and appreciated the Bank for initiatives taken for OL implementation.
14.5 The Bank is bringing out various publications for popularizing Hindi as the Official Language. These include "Mangala" – quarterly Hindi house-journal of the Bank, "Tridhara"– Hindi Journal published on behalf of TOLIC, Mangalore and "Bharat Bharati"- Hindi journal published on behalf of Official Language Committee of South Based Public Sector Banks.
14.6 The Town Official Language Implementation Committee (TOLIC), Mangalore under the convenership of the Bank secured shield from the Regional Implementation Office (South-West), Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India for excellence in performance during the year 2012-13.
15. Performance of Subsidiaries and other units sponsored by the Bank
15.1 Corp Bank Securities Limited: The Bank''s wholly owned subsidiary, Corp Bank Securities Limited (CBSL) has earned a total income of Rs.10.29 crore, posted Profit Before Tax of Rs.9.96 crore and Profit After Tax of Rs.6.77 crore (after accounting for tax provision of Rs.1.96 crore, reversal of deferred tax asset of Rs.0.54 crore and MAT credit set off of Rs. 0.69 crore) for FY 2013-14, while the corresponding figures for FY 2012-13 were Rs.13.81 crore, Rs.13.37 crore and Rs.8.57 crore respectively (after accounting of tax provision of Rs.2.66 crore, reversal of deferred tax asset of Rs.4.22 crore while Rs.2.07 crore being MAT credit available was added back). The Paid up Equity Share Capital remained at Rs.75 crore as on 31.3.2014 while the Net worth stood at Rs.109.81 crore, after providing for Rs.7.50 crore towards proposed final dividend and Rs.1.27 crore as dividend distribution tax thereon, with the plough back of surplus. The Earning per Share for fiscal ended March, 2014 was Rs.0.90 while it was Rs.1.14 for the fiscal ended March, 2013. The Company continues to pursue its activity of distribution of Mutual Fund Products and trading in approved Securities like Certificate of Deposits, Treasury Bills etc. The Company has secured requisite regulatory approvals for commencement of equity broking business and the connectivity and is taking forward to activate the business.
16. Constitution of Board of Directors
16.1 The following changes have taken place in the Board of Directors of the Bank during the financial year ended 31st March, 2014.
16.2 Shri S. R. Bansal was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of the Bank by the Central Government and he assumed office on 5th October, 2013.
16.3 Ms. Anna Roy was appointed by the Central Government as Government Nominee Director on the Board of the Bank and she assumed office with effect from 23rd May, 2013. With effect from 16.04.2014, Shri Manish Gupta has been appointed by the Central Government as Government Nominee Director on the Board of the Bank, replacing Ms. Anna Roy.
16.4 Shri Ekanath Baliga was appointed by the Central Government as Officer employee Director and he assumed office with effect from 17.10.2013.
16.5 Shri Bonam Venkata Bhaskar was nominated by the Central Government as Part time Non-official Director on the Board of the Bank and he assumed office with effect from 4th November, 2013.
16.6 Shri Adish Kumar Jain was nominated by the Central Government as Part time Non-official Director on the Board of the Bank and he assumed office with effect from 26.12.2013.
16.7 The following members retired from the Board of the Bank during the period:
- Ms. Anna Roy retired as Government Nominee Director on 15.04.2014.
- Shri Ajai Kumar retired as Chairman and Managing Director on 30.06.2013.
- Shri Lalit Kishore Meena retired as Government Nominee Director on 23.05.2013.
- Shri Kaushik Kumar Ghosh completed his term as Officer Employee Director on 15.04.2013.
16.8 The Board places on record its appreciation for the guidance and counsel received from Shri Ajai Kumar, Shri Lalit Kishore Meena, Ms. Anna Roy and Shri Kaushik Kumar Ghosh, during deliberations of the Board/Committees of the Board and also in the conduct of the Banks business during their tenure of office as Directors of the Bank.
17. Directors'' Responsibility Statements
The Directors confirm that in the preparation of the Annual Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 2014:-
17.1 The applicable Accounting Standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to material departures, if any.
17.2 Accounting Policies had been selected and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Bank at the end of the financial year and of the profit and loss of the Bank for that period. Any change in the Accounting policies, are properly disclosed.
17.3 Proper and sufficient care was taken for the maintenance of adequate Accounting Records in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Acts for safeguarding the assets of the bank and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities.
17.4 The Annual Accounts were prepared on a going concern basis.
17.5 Internal financial controls had been laid down to be followed by the Bank and that such internal financial controls are adequate and were operating effectively.
17.6 Proper systems were in place to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.
18. Acknowledgements
18.1 The Directors thank the shareholders, valued customers, well-wishers, Share Transfer Agent and correspondents of the Bank in India and abroad for their goodwill, patronage and support.
18.2 The Directors acknowledge with gratitude the valuable and timely advice, guidance and support received from Government of India, Government of Karnataka, Reserve Bank of India, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), BSE, NSE, NSDL, CDSL, various State Governments, Financial Institutions and the Statutory Central Auditors of the Bank, in the functioning of the Bank.
18.3 The Directors place on record their deep appreciation of the valuable contribution of the members of the staff at all levels for the progress of the Bank during the year and look forward to their continued co-operation in realisation of the corporate goals of the Bank in the years ahead.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
Place : Mangalore (S. R. Bansal)
Date : 23.05.2014 Chairman & Managing Director
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Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
6 of 25 portraits of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
probably by Renold or Reginold Elstrack (Elstracke), published by George Humble
line engraving, circa 1610-1627
7 1/2 in. x 4 5/8 in. (190 mm x 117 mm) plate size; 8 3/8 in. x 5 3/8 in. (214 mm x 137 mm) paper size
acquired Unknown source, 1961
Reference Collection
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- Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567), Second Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots. Sitter associated with 25 portraits.
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- Renold or Reginold Elstrack (Elstracke) (1570-in or after 1625), Engraver. Artist associated with 149 portraits.
- George Humble (died 1640), Printseller. Artist associated with 15 portraits.