The value of digital transactions nationwide declined marginally (1.5 per cent) to Rs 92.6 lakh crore ($1.4 trillion) in February 2017 from Rs 94 lakh crore in November 2016 ($1.42 trillion), according to representative data (provisional) on electronic payments released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)....
State Bank of India (SBI), which will see five associate banks merge into it on April 1, has decided to shut down almost half the offices of these banks, including the head offices of three of them. This process will start from April 24....
It was a spectacular celebration. The beating of drums, sprinkling of colours, group songs, dancing continued well after dusk....
Did the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) desist from naming its Chief Ministerial candidate for UP before the assembly polls because it wanted to spring a nasty, or pleasant, surprise - depending on one's point of view - on an unsuspecting public? ...
The passing away of Nobel prize winning poet Derek Walcott, the best known writer from the Caribbean internationally, is a great loss to literature and more so to hundreds of thousands of readers from across the globe who were transported to the region as they devoured his works....
Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra of "The Lunchbox" fame, who looks at every film that he makes as an 'Indian movie,' believes his first very 'English' film with very 'English' characters has a universal appeal....
Emmanuel Momoh, who was working in the West African country's east Kono region, found the precious stone which could be the tenth largest diamond ever found, Daily Mail online reported. ...
It is not just the machine, but the overall administrative safeguards which we use that make it absolutely impossible for anybody to open the machine.’ Even though he assures absolute security of EVMs, the credibility of the EVM has come under cloud once again....
On Tuesday, as Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi described the poll outcome in Uttar Pradesh as "a little down", he yet again seemed completely unaware of the reality on the ground, where the Grand Old Party finds itself in an existential crisis....
The emphatic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls has brought the partys relationship with its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), back in focus....
