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ING Vysya Life Insurance to inject Rs 100 Cr equity in Dec

Bangalore, Dec 14(UNI) Registering faster growth vis-a-vis industry average, ING Vysya Life Insurance (IYL) today announced infusion of Rs 100 crore fresh equity this month, ahead of the launch of a series of new life term insurance policies in the first quarter of 2008.

Talking to newsmen here, IYL Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Kshitij Jain said the Company was on course with its announcement last year of achieving a business of Rs 4500 crore by 2010 with the total premium collection for the current year expected to touch Rs 950 crore. Of this the new premium alone would be Rs 620 crore. The Company currently had a capital base of Rs 790 crore. The IYL Board had mandated to take the capital to Rs 1380 crore before 2009.

He said IYL would have a total customer base of over one million by the end of next year with the new policies numbering over 600,000 to be added.

He said the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has recently approved a slew of new policies of the company which would be launched early next year. The new schemes would be pure term policies, which would be innovative in the industry.

He said the ambitious plan to scale up the company operations during the current calendar year had paid rich dividends with the growth in customer acquisition being 108 per cent during the second half of the year. The number of agents had gone up to 43,000 from 26,000 last year.

Stating that IYL foot print in South was phenomenal, especially in semi urban and rural areas, Mr Jain said the company obtained 80 per cent of its business through its own channels. It had the fourth largest footprint in the south among the private insurance companies.

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Eleventh Plan for sops to BPO, enlarging subcriber telcom base

New Delhi, Dec 14 (UNI) The Eleventh Plan draft document argues forcibly for bridging the digital divide by increasing telecom subscriber base to 600 million and enhancing rural density to 25 per cent and makes out a case for continuing tax sops to the BPO sector beyond 2009. ''It is an irony that the phenomenal growth of the telecom sector has also created a digital divide in terms of mobile and land line connections and internet and broadband connections. The.....

'Cong 'Modi Hatao' campaign to benefit BJP'

Ahmedabad, Dec 14: Leader of Opposition L K Advani today claimed that the Congress Party's ''Modi Hatao'' campaign will benefit the BJP since in India, people have always shown an aversion to ''person-centric'' campaigning. Talking to mediapersons at the party headquarters here today Mr Advani said, ''The present Congress campaign in Gujarat reminds me of the Opposition's 'Indira Hatao' call in 1967 which Mrs Gandhi effectively countered with her 'Garibi Hatao'. Similarly, the present 'Modi Hatao' campaign has been effectively responded.....

Bangladesh observes Martyred Intellectual Day

Dhaka, Dec 14 (UNI) Bangladesh today observed the Martyred Intellectuals Day commemorating those who were killed by Pakistani occupation forces at the fag end of the 1971 War of Liberation. Sensing an imminent defeat, the Pakistani occupation army and their local collaborators -- Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams -- abducted frontline Bengali intellectuals and professionals on December 14, 1971 and killed them to cripple a newborn nation intellectually. Renowned academics, teachers, litterateurs, doctors, engineers, journalists and other eminent personalities were.....
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