Bharat Bandh hits life in Bihar, J'hand, tribal belts

The daylong nationwide strike called by some Dalit and Adivasi groups against the Supreme Court's verdict on the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes affected normal life in Bihar and Jharkhand......

A Rainy Day Check-List for Chennaiites

If only you had thought ahead, you would have stocked snacks and biscuits, bread and cake, and vegetables suited for Amma or pondatti to make your favourite bajji and pakoda, observes N Sathiya......

ED raids 26 locations in ABG Shipyard bank fraud case

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided multiple premises in Mumbai, Pune and Surat in connection with a money laundering probe against ABG Shipyard Ltd in an alleged Rs 22,842 crore bank......

Bank fraud: ED registers money laundering case against ABG Shipyard

The Enforcement Directorate has registered a criminal case of money laundering against ABG Shipyard Ltd, its former promoters along with others for allegedly cheating a consortium of 28 banks of......

Banks' gross NPAs at 12-yr low, may fall further to 2.5%

The bad assets or gross NPAs of commercial banks fell to a 12-year low of 2.8 per cent in March 2024 and may go down further to 2.5 per cent by the end of the current fiscal, said the RBI's......

'Housing finance Sector Will Only Grow'

'The demand for housing is always increasing, and so is housing shortage.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com New Delhi-based PNB Housing Finance will restart its corporate business after......

ARC chiefs to meet RBI deputy guvs for seeking clarity on bank borrowing

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will meet top executives of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) on Friday to take stock of the sector. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com During the......

Who Will Be The Next SBI Chief?

'The FSIB will conduct interviews for the SBI chairman position on May 21-22 as the tenure of the current chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara is scheduled to end by August.' IMAGE: The State Bank of India......

Will Akshay-Abbas-Mustan make Khiladi 2?

'We are open to directing a Khiladi 2.''And we would want to do it with Akshay who is still so fit, energetic and successful.' IMAGE: Bobby Deol and Arjun Rampal in Penthouse. They are the Men in......

'Audience is not waiting for another Baahubali'

'They are waiting for the kind of experience they had in the film, the kind of emotion they felt in the film.' Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com After facing several setbacks due to the......

When Olonga 'bounced Tendulkar out' in Sharjah...

IMAGE: A mean bouncer to get Sachin Tendulkar out on a lifeless Sharjah track during a tri-series in 1998 made him a household name in India. Photograph: Craig Prentis/All Sport/Getty Images In a......

Revealed! Final moments of Kobe Bryant's fatal helicopter crash

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) estimated Bryant's luxury passenger helicopter hit the ground at a speed of more than 2,000 feet (610 m) per minute. IMAGE: NBA......