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India Stock Exchanges: Bombay Commodity Exchange (estwhile the Bombay Oilseeds and Oils Exchange) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) Cochin Stock Exchange Inter-Connected Stock Exchange of India (ISE) Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) National Stock Exchange of India (NCE) OTC Exchange of India (Exchange for Technology and Growth Stocks) Pune Stock Exchange (PSE)

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The four branches of the US military operate their own service academies. They are all four-year institutions. Competition to get into these schools is highly competitive. Students become commissioned officers immediately upon graduation. Those who are accepted get full scholarships and a small monthly allowance. For more information, speak to your HS guidance counselor or contact: The Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut at 800-883-8372, The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. at 800-822-8762, The Naval Academy in Maryland at 800-638-9156, The Air Force Academy in Colorado at 800-443-9266.

If your parents are separated or divorced, the Custodial parent is responsible for filling out the FAFSA. The custodial parent is the parent with whom you lived the most during the past 12 months. This is not necessarily the same as the parent who has legal custody. If you did not live with one parent more than the other, the parent who provided you with the most financial support should fill out the FAFSA. This is probably the parent who claimed you as a dependent on their tax return. If you have not received any support from either parent during the past 12 months, use the most recent calendar year for which you received some support from a parent or lived with either parent.

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps. (ROTC) provides students with money for college. Generally, the arrangement is, in exchange for the college education, the student must make a commitment to join the armed services after graduation. After graduation, students become commissioned officers in the Marine Corps, Army, Navy or Air Force. ROTC scholarships pay for tuition, fees and books for all four years of college. Lesser programs are available for students who want to make lesser commitments.

Veteran status is needed for Federal financial aid purposes when determining dependency status. A veteran is a former member of the US Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard) who served on active duty and was discharged other than dishonorably, meaning: received an honorable or medical discharge. You are a veteran even if you serve just one day on active duty, (not active duty for training before receiving your DD-214 and formal discharge papers). In order for a veteran to be eligible for VA educational benefits, they must have served for more than 180 consecutive days on active duty before receiving an honorable discharge. There are exceptions for participation in Desert Storm/Desert Shield and other military campaigns.) ROTC students, members of the National Guard, and most reservists are not considered veterans. Since the 1995-96 academic year, a person who was discharged other than dishonorably from one of the military service academies (the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs or the Coast Guard Academy at New London) is considered a veteran for financial aid purposes. Cadets and midshipmen who are still enrolled in one of the military service academies, however, are not considered veterans. According to the US Department of Education's Action Letter #6 (February 1996), "a student who enrolls in a service academy, but who withdraws before graduating, is considered a veteran for purposes of determining dependency status". Having a DD-214 does not necessarily mean that you are a veteran for financial aid purposes. As noted above, you must have served on active duty and received an honorable discharge.

Yes, if you serve in a combat zone as an enlisted person or as a warrant officer (including commissioned warrant officers) for any part of a month, all your military pay received for military service that month is excluded from gross income. For commissioned officers, the monthly exclusion is capped at the highest enlisted pay, plus any hostile fire or imminent danger pay received.

Yes, Each of you qualifies for the income tax exclusion for your respective military pay.