Students express concern as Canada ends fast-track SDS visa programIndian students aspiring to study in Canada are expressing anxiety and disappointment over Canada's recent decision to discontinue the Stud...
Canada closes its fast-track Student Direct Stream, effective immediatelyCanada has closed its Student Direct Stream program. This program helped many Indian students get visas quickly. The program processed appl...
Why Student Direct Stream is the best way to apply for your Canadian student visaThe Student Direct Stream (SDS) is a program that allows eligible international students from 14 countries to expedite the processing of th...
IELTS takers not required to score minimum 6 bands in individual sections for Canadian study permit under SDSFrom August 10, International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test-takers applying through the Student Direct Stream category for C...
TOEFL to be now accepted for Canada's Student Direct StreamThe test has been approved by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). So far, IELTS was the only English-language testing opti...
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Tech Mahindra and Samsung SDS announce blockchain collaborationWhile customers have been running PoCs using blockchain over the past year, companies expect that these would get converted into commercial...
Interest rate on non-government PF, superannuation and gratuity hikedThe purpose of the Special Deposit Scheme was to provide better returns to non-government provident funds, superannuation and gratuity fund...
Government hikes interest rate on Special Deposit Scheme to 8.8 pc for 2012-13The government has increased interest rates on SDS and State Provident Funds for the year 2012-13 to 8.8 per cent from 8.6 per cent current...
- Finance Ministry ups GPF interest rate to 8.6%; move likely to boost EPF rate next year
A similar rate hike has also been effected in SDS where nong overnment retirement funds have invested over Rs1,10,000 crore.
- Labour unions seek higher returns on SDS for better EPF yield
They would demand re-activation of the SDS, where more than one-fourth of the EPF money is parked, and to increase interest rates on it.
- EPFO defers plans to withdraw SDS deposits
Amidst the ongoing slump, EPFO has deferred its plans to withdraw Special Deposit Scheme (SDS) funds worth Rs 53,700 crore and deposit them...
- FM to consider hike in interest rate on SDS
Finance minister P Chidambaram has agreed to consider a hike in the interest offered on the special deposit scheme (SDS) in which the Emplo...
- Time’s ripe to wind up mega SDS
Rising interest rates loom dark over the horizon, but they have a particularly shiny silver lining.
- Stuck in rate war, EPFO not to credit interest
This is no chicken feed. For the past one year, the government has been forced to pay out an 8% rate of interest, about Rs 1,20,000 crore, ...
- Govt extends SDS, eases terms of withdrawal
The government on Friday ended the uncertainty over the fate of the Special Deposit Scheme (SDS) which has a corpus of over Rs 1,21,000 cro...