Banks general
Banks are duty-bound to protect depositors’ money: President
10 Sep 2016
The President had a word of praise for the just retired RBI governor Raghuram Rajan's efforts to clean up more than $100 billion of stressed assets on the books of banks
ICICI to use robots in big way for KYC, other routine tasks
09 Sep 2016
ICICI Bank claims to be the only bank in the country to be using software robotics in the banking processes, and said that this has helped it to reduce response time to customers by up to 60 per cent
RBI open to interest-free Islamic banking
06 Sep 2016
FM nudges banks to support India's growth
02 Sep 2016
RBL Bank shares debuts at near 22% premium
31 Aug 2016
Banks using repo rate cuts to hedge loan losses, says RBI
30 Aug 2016
RBI said the low transmission of RBI rate cut reflects banks’ preference to protect profitability in the wake of deteriorating asset quality and higher provisioning
SBI looks to raise $1.5 bn through overseas debt
24 Aug 2016
RBL Bank's Rs1,200-cr IPO subscribed 308%
22 Aug 2016
India Post Payments Bank incorporated
19 Aug 2016
SBI board approves merger of 3 associate banks, BMB
18 Aug 2016
The merger of all five associate banks and the newly-created Bhartiya Mahila Bank (BMB) with SBI will create a banking behemoth with combined assets of over Rs37,00,000 crore
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation