Mumbai For eight years megastar Amitabh Bachchan did not know he was suffering from Tuberculosis and said that he has does not mind calling himself a tuberculosis survivor. Amitabh was at NDTV’s Swasth India launch and was speaking to doctor Harsh Vardhan urging him to spread awareness about regular check ups to facilitate early diagnosis. […]
A school teacher in Rajasthan is all set to fly back to his home from work in a helicopter on his retirement day on Saturday. Ramesh Chand Meena has booked a chopper service for Rs 3.70 lakh to take him back to his residence in Malawali village in Alwar district from his school, which is […]
RSS — The name evokes different sentiments among different people. Depending upon who you speak to, some will describe them as ‘nationalist’, some as ‘torch bearers of Hinduism’, while few may brand it as ‘communal’. To many, RSS may seem to be an ageing organization. But it has embraced modernity of late and how. Apart […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
The ongoing stand-off between online food aggregators and the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), a trade body that represents more than 5 lakh restaurants in the country, over deep discounting practices is nothing but part of a larger global debate on tapping the basic psyche of a consumer: “Get more for less”. The mere […]