Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said the state of the economy was “deeply worrying” and urged the government to put aside “vendetta politics” and reach out to sane voices and thinking minds to steer the economy out of this “man-made crisis”.
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The police have arrested a man who allegedly shot at RSS activist Sompal Saini in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, an officer said today.
Last-minute travellers have helped railways earn a whopping Rs 25,392 crore in the last four years, an RTI has found. The national transporter earned Rs 21,530 crore from Tatkal quota tickets and an additional Rs 3,862 crore from Tatkal Premium tickets between 2016 and 2019, with a massive 62 per cent increase in revenue from the latter during this period.
Members of the All India Bank Employees’ Association on Saturday staged a protest here against the Centre’s decision to merge 10 public sector banks into four entities. Employees of all public and private sector banks wore black badges to work as a mark of protest to the government’s decision.
The Coast Guard on Saturday received the fifth in the series of seven Offshore Patrol Vessels that was indigenously built by the Larsen and Toubro Shipyard, a major step in the CG’s ship acquisition plans.
Eight of the 10 most valued domestic companies together added Rs 77,222.53 crore in market valuation last week, propelled by sharp gains in HDFC twins and ITC.
South-based Federal Bank on Saturday announced linking of its savings deposit rate to external benchmarks, becoming the first private sector lender to initiate such a move.
Union minister Smriti Irani, who defeated former Congress president and three-term Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi in the last Lok Sabha elections, on Saturday said she saw there “some people picking up grain from mud to eat” in 2014.
State-run Union Bank of India on Saturday announced reduction in its marginal cost of funds- based lending rate (MCLR) by up to 15 basis points across various tenors, effective from today, 1 September.