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Lower home loan rates are now easier to attain, all you have to do is buy into the clearance sales that builders are holding, reports CNBC-TV18. Do not let higher interest rates bog you down from buying the dream house you may have always wanted. Builders are coming to the rescue. Sources say that several builders in the past one month have been approaching banks to offer lower interest rates to new home loan borrowers.

The rack rate for a Rs 10 lakh 5-10 year floating rate home loan is anywhere between 9.5 to 10.5%, but banks like ICICI had tied up with builders and offered a fixed rate of 7.99% for the first three years. » Read more after the jump →

Former Porterville High School wrestler Joe Soto’s athletic scholarship at an Iowa college will not be affected by his conviction and sentencing in Tulare County Superior Court on an assault charge.

Soto, named the top wrestler in 2004 by the Tulare County Wrestling Coaches Association, has become one of the top wrestlers for Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge even as he faced a charge back home of assault by force likely to create great bodily injury. The charge stemmed from claims that Soto hit another » Read more after the jump →

The University at Albany has formally renamed its Inaugural Scholarship Fund the Kermit L. Hall and Phyllis A. Hall Inaugural Scholarship Fund.

The fund had been established on Hall’s third day in office in February 2005 and, as envisioned by Hall, is being used to pay tuition and other college costs of promising, needy students. Hall took $100,000 that the college would have spent on his inaugural ceremony to get the fund going, and he and his wife personally donated $10,000 toward it. The fund has since attracted more than 1,600 contributions and now stands at nearly $3 million. » Read more after the jump →

Minister of Fisheries Jim Anderton today announced the Ministry of Fisheries and Niwa have established a joint graduate scholarship programme in quantitative fisheries science.

“MFish will provide funding while NIWA will provide supervision and mentoring to the successful scholarship candidates,” Jim Anderton said.

“The scholarships would mean that 2 to 3 graduate students each year could develop expertise in quantitative fisheries research, with particular emphasis on the assessment of fish stocks modelling. » Read more after the jump →

MONTREAL — Premier Jean Charest wants an apology from the Globe and Mail over an article he labelled a “disgrace” for suggesting the Dawson College killer was marginalized in a Quebec society the story said values pure francophone culture.

In Saturday’s paper, Jan Wong said Quebec’s linguistic struggle has taken a toll on immigrants as well as longtime anglophones.

Wong wrote that Dawson killer Kimveer Gill, Ecole Polytechnique murderer Marc Lepine and Valery Fabrikant, a Concordia University professor who killed four colleagues in 1992, had “all been marginalized, in a society that valued `pure laine a term commonly used to describe someone who is francophone through and through. » Read more after the jump →

SCHOLARSHIP: Local artists and the Berry family hope to wind up their drive to create a Liz Berry Memorial Scholarship fund at UAF with a silent auction fundraiser Thursday.

The silent auction featuring the work of about three dozen Alaska artists, including the late Liz Berry, is to be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the UAF Art Gallery.

The items will be available for view in the display cases outside the art department from today until Thursday. The bids close at 7:30 p.m. on the night of the fundraiser. » Read more after the jump →

LANCASTER - Five local college students were presented with $2,000 scholarships Saturday in the name of the 2006 Aerospace Walk of Honor honorees.

Scholarship recipients are David Agbelusi, Stephen Bartell, Andrew Bernard, Matthew Bierle and Derick Kerwin.

“These scholarship recipients are the future of science and engineering,” said Mayor Henry Hearns. “We are proud that the Antelope Valley can boast this caliber of students.”

Agbelusi is a graduate of Tehachapi High School, currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in » Read more after the jump →