The government on Friday announced the mega-merger of 10 PSU banks into four, where the Punjab National Bank, the Oriental Bank of Commerce and the United Bank to merge become the second-largest PSB while the Canara Bank and the Syndicate Bank will amalgamate to make the fourth-largest PSU bank entity. Also in the series of […]
After failing to get any support from the UN Security Council or the US, Pakistan is now seeking to raise the Kashmir issue at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Former Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua is already in Geneva to sensitise the top rights body on the “worst human rights violations” in Jammu […]
Private sector lending major ICICI Bank has become the first in the country to deploy industrial ‘Robotic Arms’ to count millions of currency notes at its currency chests across the country, a top official said here on Wednesday. These Robotic Arms are currently functioning at Mumbai, and Sangli (Maharashtra), New Delhi, Bengaluru and Mangaluru (Karnataka), […]
Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday, asking permission to travel with an attendant to meet his party colleague Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami. Yechury said that he will be traveling to Srinagar on Thursday to meet the ailing Tarigami, after the Supreme Courtgave him […]
In an apparent display of duality on the issue of abrogation of Article 370, IAS officer-turned-politician Shah Faesal had claimed two weeks ago that “you can either be a stooge or a separatist now”, but a week later in his petition in the Supreme Court, Faesal came on record saying “the state of Jammu and […]
Pia Benegal, daughter of veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, has been roped in to recreate the look of Devika Rani, who is widely regarded as First Lady of Indian Cinema. Pia’s designs are for Lillete Dubey’s next directorial venture, a play on Devika Rani. “Devika’s personality, combined with the time at which she ruled, were the […]
After recently completing six years in the re-commerce business, Cashify on Tuesday launched an online portal to sell refurbished smartphones, laptops and mobile accessories in India. “As a re-commerce brand, we are hopeful of making a big impact in the refurbished gadget market, starting off with smartphones and laptops as our star categories. We will […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met newly crowned world champion P.V. Sindhu and wished luck to the ace shuttler for her future endeavours. Sindhu on Sunday thrashed Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in the final of the women’s singles event to become the first Indian to win gold in the BWF World Championships. “India’s […]
On the second day of hearing this week on former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s petition for pre-arrest bail in the ED’s INX Media case, his lawyers argued on the retrospective effect of the PMLA law. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Chidambaram, told the court that the offence allegedly dated back to 2007 but the […]
Breaching a psychological barrier, gold prices in Mumbai touched new high of a little over Rs 40,000 per 10 gm, on Monday, industry players said. “This is indeed an unprecedented high, but lower by at least 20 per cent in US Dollar terms. Presently, it is $1,545 on the Comex, lower that $1,920 in September […]