A petition questioning the merger of State Bank of Travancore (SBT) with State Bank of India (SBI) was admitted in the Kerala High Court here on Tuesday. The public interest petition was filed by a forum of various political parties, trade unions, bank beneficiary groups, customers, shareholders, mass organisations, trade and industry bodies and bank […]
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday set up a three-member panel to study irregularities in over 400 files submitted to his office since an August 4 judgment of the Delhi High Court. The High Court had directed to review instances where prior approval of the Lt Governor was required under rules but was not obtained. […]
Indian equity markets were on Tuesday buoyed by strong buying support across sectors, coupled with positive global cues and an appreciating rupee. Both the key Indian indices closed the day’s trade with substantial gains — surging more than 1.5 per cent each — to touch new intra-day highs, with healthy buying witnessed in automobile, banking […]
The Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that the newly-inked India-US military logistics agreement will work only on mutual consent, and clarified that it does not provide for setting up of bases or an obligation to carry out joint activities. “Defence cooperation between India and the United States has never been stronger than it is today,” […]
The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution proposing the name of the state be changed to ‘Bangla’ in Bengali or ‘Bengal’ in English. However, the government resolution under rule 169 – moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chattopdhyay – eluded a consensus, as none of the opposition parties – Congress, Left Front and […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in New Delhi on a wet Monday evening and there were reports that his cavalcade got stuck in a traffic jam on a road from the IGI airport to the city. Though there was no official confirmation of the incident but officials at the traffic control room admitted […]
The Home Ministry-appointed expert committee, which was to explore alternatives to pellet guns as non-lethal weapons to deal with protestors in the Kashmir Valley, submitted its report to the central government on Monday. “A seven-member Expert Committee under the chairmanship of T.V.S.N. Prasad, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, for exploring the other possible alternatives […]
Delhi Public School (Vasundhara) in Ghaziabad has expelled a class 7 student after her father filed a petition in Allahabad High Court against an “arbitrary” fee hike by the school, alleged the father on Monday. Ananya Bhatnagar was on Friday handed over her Transfer Certificate and asked to leave the school. The school management could […]
West Bengal CID sleuths on Sunday detained one person as they took over the probe into the fire that left two dead and seven injured at a state-run medical college in Murshidabad district. A CID team, led by its Deputy Inspector General B.L. Meena visited the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in Baharampur and spoke […]
Ten people were killed when a bus overturned on a highway in southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang region on Sunday. The bus driver was among those killed, police said. The accident occurred at around 10 a.m. in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, when the 47-seat bus was approaching its destination. Another 32 people were injured, five of […]