NEW DELHI: Govt on Friday introduced a bill to amend banking laws, which includes changes to nomination facility to make it more consumer-friendly, but left the floor on its holding unchanged to ensure that the Centre retains majority stake in public sector banks, indicating that stake sale in state-run banks will not be pushed.Govt had…
MUMBAI: Nearly a third of the health insurance claims recorded by insurers are due to seasonal infectious diseases. These include vector-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria, which give rise to high claims in July and August, or water-borne infections such as gastroenteritis. In winter, it is usually bronchitis or influenza.As many of these claims…
JALPAIGURI PETRAPOLE: At least 1,000 Bangladeshis, mostly Hindus, attempted to cross over and seek refuge in India on Friday in Sitalkuchi of Bengal’s Cooch Behar district. BSF officials struggled to hold them back, with officers describing this as the largest group from the strife-wracked nation to head to India in the past few weeks.Such was…
Doctors, interns and students protest outside the emergency building; (R) The seminar room where the body was found KOLKATA: The brutalised body of a second-year post graduate trainee (PGT) doctor of respiratory medicine at RG Kar Medical College was found inside a seminar hall on the third floor of the hospital’s emergency building around 7.30am…
PARIS: When Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem cleared 92.97 metres with his effortless second throw in the javelin final Thursday night, the pressure was on Neeraj Chopra to better it. The Indian believed he could do it, but in his desperation to go past his Pakistani rival’s mark, he ended up with four foul throws. Trying to…
In a big relief to Aam Aadmi Party leader and former deputy CM of Delhi Manish Sisodia, Supreme Court on Friday granted him bail in the corruption and money laundering cases related to changes in Delhi’s excise policy, and paved the way for him to come out of jail 17 months after he was arrested.“If…
BNP’s Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain helped out protesting students KOLKATA: BNP workers Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain in Dhaka were arrested on July 22 for helping out students during the movement—they distributed water and food among them. The two were released on Wednesday after the Awami League govt collapsed. Minto spoke to TOI from…
NEW DELHI: The Parliament was adjourned sine die on Friday, one sitting ahead of the scheduled end of the session, with the two Houses passing several key pieces of legislation, including the Finance Bill, 2024, and the Appropriation Bill, 2024 — both crucial for the Union Budget.The session gained significance after the introduction of the…
Mihir Shah, accused in the BMW hit-and-run (File Photo) MUMBAI: The forensic report of Mihir Shah, accused in the BMW hit-and-run case in which a 45-year-old woman was killed on the morning of July 7, showed no traces of alcohol in his blood, said a police source.The blood samples of Mihir (24), son of suspended…
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Tarsem Singh, an accused in the case relating to the terror attack on the intelligence headquarters of Punjab Police in Mohali, upon his extradition from the United Arab Emirates.Tarsem, who hails from Punjab’s Tarn Taran, is a key aide of foreign-based…
