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Articles 421 through 520 of 500:
- Trade Gets Red Carpet Welcome At Nathu La (Pioneer, Syed Zarir Hussain, Jul 07, 2006)
History was made on Thursday when India and China opened the famed Silk Road for border trade after 44-years, leaving behind memories of a bloody war the two countries fought along this freezing Himalayan pass.
- Collector Launches Kisan Credit Card (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
The card will enable farmers to withdraw money from ATMs anywhere in the country
- Meeting Ground In The Mountains (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jul 06, 2006)
Hordes of officials and journalists descend on the Nathu La Pass, which is to be officially opened for border trade on Thursday.
- Sensex Surges 257 Points (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
Markets bounced back on Wednesday and ended up 257 points on the back of buying supports from FIIs.
Markets bounced back on Wednesday and ended up 257 points on the back of buying supports from FIIs.
- Sbi: Banking On Subsidiaries (Business Line, Deeptha Rajkumar, Jul 05, 2006)
State Bank of India, which was in the news on Tuesday for issuing dividend, is also being talked of as being an attractive buy once its subsidiaries go to the market to raise money.
- Rains Force Mumbai To Pack Up Early (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation cautions heavy rains over the next 48 hours
The city's arterial railways, with some delays and stoppages, bore the burden of taking Mumbai's residents back to their homes.
- No Change In Interest Rates Till Rbi Policy Review (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
State Bank of India, the country's largest bank, will take a call on reviewing interest rates only after the RBI unveils its quarterly review of the monetary policy.
- Shares To Be Allotted To Nlc Employees (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
PMO letter follows a request from Chief Minister Karunanidhi
Allotment on preferential basis
Move will help staff have stake in NLC
- Rain No Damper, Sensex Up 86 Pts (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Heavyweight Sensex stocks kept the Sensex on a high on a day when the rains lashed India’s commercial capital and so there was low attendance even on the bourses. The two exchanges saw one of the lowest turnovers of 2006.
- Sbi Aims For 25 Pc Fy07 Loan Growth (The Financial Express, Reuters, Jul 03, 2006)
India's largest lender State Bank of India is forecasting 25 per cent loan growth in the year to March 2007 as growth remains strong in Asia's third-largest economy.
- Sc Notice To Sbi Over Dismissal Of 78-Year-Old (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Jul 03, 2006)
On the face of what seems to be apparent "injustice" meted out to a 78-year-old bank officer, the Supreme Court has issued notice to the State Bank of India (SBI), questioning how the latter proceeded to dismiss its senior official over alleged . . .
- Focus On Market Share: Sbi Chief (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
An upbeat Om Prakash Bhatt takes over as SBI Chairman
Current market share 17%
Expected advances growth 25% (29%)
Expected deposits growth 17% (13%)
- Sbi To Review Lending Rates Post Policy (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
The country’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), has decided to wait till the July 25 review of monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a revision in lending rates.
- Wkly Review: Sensex Up For The 3rd Straight Week (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
The Sensex ended higher for the third straight week gaining 208 points at a close of 10,609.
- Sbi To Review Lending Rates Post Policy (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 01, 2006)
The country’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), has decided to wait till the July 25 review of monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a revision in lending rates.
- Sbi Life's Expansion Plans (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 30, 2006)
SBI Life Insurance has chalked out expansion plans by enlarging its branch network from 58 to 150 across 113 cities by the end of the current fiscal.
- Sbi To Advance Rs. 92 Crore Home Loan This Year (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Erode district branches of State Bank of India (SBI) will advance Rs. 92 crore home loan this year, which is Rs. 30 crore more than the previous year's sanction, said the Assistant General Manager, Coimbatore, G. Rita, here on Friday.
- Ubi, Sbi To Share Atms (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
The State Bank of India and the Union Bank of India (UBI) have signed an agreement for bilateral sharing of ATMs.
- Sbi Opens Sales Force Cell (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
A Multi Product Sales Force (MPSF) cell has been opened at the zonal office of State Bank of India (SBI) here on Monday. SBI general manager (network-2) P. Jagadish Babu inaugurated the cell.
- Sensex Gains 339 Points (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Much to the respite of retail customers and the country, bull run continued even on Friday keeping the bearing sentiment away at least for the last two consecutive days from markets.
- Sebi Clears Mcx Ipo (Business Line, Rajesh Abraham, Jun 15, 2006)
Exchange going ahead with issue despite weak markets
- Sensex Sheds 414 Points On Global Meltdown (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Gloomy weather across the global markets continued to hurt Indian bourses, sending the benchmark Sensex spiralling down 414 points to a six-month low of 9062.65, notwithstanding sustained foreign institutional investment inflows in equity.
- Banks Gypping Us, Cry Bhopal Victims (Tribune, RASHEED KIDWAI, Jun 13, 2006)
The survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster are now accusing banks of tricking them out of part of their compensation money.
- A Leading Institution With Global Standards (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
Kamban Engineering College of Jeeva Educational Trust was founded by Thiru.
- Icici Bank Raises Lending Rates (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
To translate into increase in both retail and corporate loans
- Freelance By Choice (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jun 09, 2006)
On Wednesday when a journalist approached me for a posting in Bhubaneswar, I told him that we would rather take on board our occasional contributor from there, Bibhuti Mishra, than look for a new face.
- Bank Donates Tricycles To Charitable Trust For The Handicapped (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Scheme under Community Services Banking of State Bank of India
- Bank Donates Tricycles To Charitable Trust For The Handicapped (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Scheme under Community Services Banking
- Kalam Charts 7-Point Mission For Sbi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2006)
Inaugurates bank's Bicentennial celebrations, urges it to create a Rs. 5,000-crore venture capital fund
- Sbi To Acquire 2 Overseas Banks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2006)
The President urged the bank to create and nurture five rural development projects similar to bio-fuel project and sea weed project besides adopting and innovatively fund at least one lakh sick SSI units to make them profitable ventures.
- Sbi Launches `E-Hundi' Facility At Tirumala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
Swipe the debit card and make contributions to temple
Service comes free of cost with no strings attached
Apart from Srivari Hundi, a number of payments to other TTD schemes can be made
Customer gets receipt of payment through ATM transaction slip
- Sbi Planning 15-20 Acquisitions Abroad (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
The largest public sector bank of the country, State bank of India (SBI) is actively looking at acquisitions overseas.
- Sensex Ends In The Green For A Second Consecutive Day (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
Max New York Life Insurance Co today said it will infuse Rs 400 crore to its paid up capital in the next two years and expected to break even by 2008.
- Sbi Branches Under Cbs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
The networking will especially benefit corporate customers
- Banks Look Less Interesting (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 25, 2006)
The higher interest rate regime is separating the men from the boys among the state-run banks.
- Sbi Gearing Up To Meet Credit Demand (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Foresees stable interest rate with upward bias
- Thinksoft's Third Centre To Be Inaugurated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Thinksoft Global Services, a leader in providing domain focused independent software testing, will be inaugurating its third centre in Chennai on Thursday.
- Steer It Right (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 16, 2006)
If the government is not to lose all credibility, there is only one decision the Union cabinet should take in the context of the Sterlite-Balco imbroglio: honour the agreement with Sterlite.
- Sensex Tanks 463 Points (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2006)
Stock markets on Monday crumbled under pressure from a slump in metal prices and weakness in emerging markets. The Sensex lost 463 points and ended trade at 11,822, down by 3.77 per cent from Friday’s close.
- Dampener Banker (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 15, 2006)
One of the two managing directors of the State Bank of India is known for his deep dislike of smoking.
- E-Delivery Of Certificates Can Be A ‘Killer App’ (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, May 12, 2006)
For this, hundreds of e-governance ‘pilot’ projects need to move beyond this stage and achieve results.
- Sensex Crosses 12600-Mark (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 11, 2006)
Led by banking and metals counters, shares on Wednesday made a handsome rally, pushing the Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index (Sensex) sharply up by 98.52 points to close at a new peak of 12,612.38 on persistent buying by foreign funds and well . . .
- Lic, Sbi, Goldman Sachs Hike Stake In Reliance Petro (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 10, 2006)
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), Goldman Sachs and State Bank of India (SBI), which have taken equity stakes in Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) through the pre-IPO placement, have hiked their stakes in the Mukesh Ambani Group company . . .
- Carry Trades And Exchange Rates (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
These were quite popular in India, but the change in currency values has changed things.
- Icici Bank Too Hikes Home Loan Rates (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
In keeping with the industry trend, India’s leading home loan player ICICI Bank announced its home loans will cost 0.5 per cent more from Monday.
- Fiscal Revamp Can Burnish Rating: S&p (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
The sovereign rating of Indian economy could further improve if India will pursue fiscal consolidation vigorously along with necessary policy initiatives to boost economic growth, a top official of Standard & Poor’s said here on Friday.
- Sc Defreezes Trust's Assets For Bhopal Memorial Hospital (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered release of Rs 37.65 crore, which formed the part of assets of erstwhile Bhopal Hospital Trust (BHT) and was lying frozen in a bank, to Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) for the maintenance of the hospital for . .
- Sbi Ups Lending Rates By Up To 50 Bps (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
State Bank of India, the country's top lender, said on Saturday it had increased lending rates on all floating rate loans by up to 50 basis points as it battles rising deposit costs.
- Sbi Hikes Lending, Deposit Rates (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Home loans dearer; Punjab National Bank, OBC, Union Bank raise PLR
- India’S Icici Bank Net Profit Up 28% (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
India’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank beat forecasts on Saturday by posting a 28 percent jump in its quarterly net profit but said its retail loans growth rate could slow.
- C.P. Chandrasekhar: Driven By Debts (Frontline, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Apr 29, 2006)
Everyone belonging to India's middle and upper classes has experienced its effects, but few analyse its implications. The country has been through a retail credit transition, making it a haven for the would-be borrower who is relentlessly pursued by . .
- This Will Inspire Trade Unions` (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 28, 2006)
Between April 3 and April 10, over 2.1 lakh officers and clerks of State Bank of India struck work demanding revision in pension payment. In its 200-year history, this is the first instance where SBI officers and clerks joined hands for an . . .
- New Sbi Service To Minimise Price Risk On Gold (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Forward contracts' to exporters of jewellery makers
- Bears Come Out Of Hibernation (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
The benchmark sensex on Tuesday went into downward tailspin and lost 268 points, wiping off nearly Rs 34,000 crore of market cap as the sentiment was affected by an increase in trading margins, high crude prices and a poor monsoon forecast.
- Privatize Iims And Iits (Daily Excelsior, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Apr 25, 2006)
Professors of IIMs and IITs are opposing the extension of reservation from present 27% to 49% as proposed by HRD Minister Arjun Singh. The basic question is of accountability.
- A New Theory To Sustain The Bull Market (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 24, 2006)
Beliefs about property-based evaluations powering the market are worrisome and require scrutiny
- Rs. 10 Lakh Missing From Hassan Sbi Branch (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
Disappearance' was noticed by RBI auditors
Bank Manager filed a complaint with the police
Case registered against two Deputy Managers
Rs. 3 lakh went missing in December
- What Bholu Tells Us (Indian Express, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Apr 20, 2006)
Norms cannot be applied to the world of advertisements, except perhaps the most obvious ones pertaining to obscenity and such things.
- Sbi Workers' Strike (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Apr 20, 2006)
Over two lakh employees of the State Bank of India go on strike over the issue of pensions.
- Snapshots (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) has approved parallel banking arrangement with ICICI Bank Ltd. Till now State Bank of India (SBI) has been the sole banker of ONGC.
- Where Is The Justice After Never-Ending Trials? (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 17, 2006)
A fast-track court at Jaipur hands out a guilty verdict in the rape of a German girl in exactly 26 days.
- Sbi Effect: Other Psu Banks Threaten Strike (Indian Express, VIKAS DHOOT, Apr 15, 2006)
The government may have succeeded in ending the week-long strike at State Bank of India (SBI), but it has also opened up a Pandora’s Box that may lead to nationwide strikes in all public sector banks soon.
- Sbi Workers' Strike (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Apr 15, 2006)
Over two lakh employees of the State Bank of India go on strike over the issue of pensions.
- Is Politics Costing Economy Dear? (Business Line, B. S. Rathor, Apr 14, 2006)
Recent political developments raise innumerable questions. A political alliance at the Centre created by compulsions of keeping a common political foe out of power.
- Shutters Up Again (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 12, 2006)
SBI must work out stringent measures
- A `Strike' For Organised Labour (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 12, 2006)
A wage policy for organised workforce, incorporating an inflation-adjusted component of old-age social security brooks no delay.
- Aiadmk-Mdmk Alliance Not Based On Principles, Says Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2006)
"DPA will highlight the achievements of the Central Government"
- Sbi Staff Work Overtime To Clear Backlog (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2006)
After the end of week-long strike of over two lakh employees of the SBI employees last night, thousands of customers thronged at the branches creating chaos at some places though employees had come early in the morning.
- Customers Mob B’Lore Sbi Branches (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2006)
The morning after the week-long strike by the State Bank of India employees was called off, the bank’s branches in the City on Monday opened to long queues ....
- Nabard Aid To Tamil Nadu, Pondy Crosses Rs. 2,345 Cr. (Hindu, S. Vydhianathan, Apr 11, 2006)
Rs. 604 crore for infrastructure projects
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Total aid sanctioned includes Rs. 1,827 crore as refinance to banks
Rs. 547 crore to cooperative banks, regional rural banks
- Pc Gives In (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 11, 2006)
The week-long SBI strike has ended with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram complimenting the management and the unions for a satisfactory conclusion. If the ideal solution was so within grasp, one wonders, why could it not have been concluded . . .
- Sbi Open Today To Clear Backlog (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2006)
Mumbai: Despite a public holiday, the State Bank of India's entire branch network will operate on Tuesday in an attempt to restore normalcy in operations disrupted for a week by the indefinite strike by its employees over pension revision issue.
- Customers Make A Beeline At Sbi Branches, Atms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2006)
Employees struggle to clear huge backlog of cheques and carry out other transactions
- End Strike, Traders Tell Sbi Employees (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Trading, industrial activities crippled
- "Nda Govt. Shielding Political Nexus Of Ranveer Sena'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Demand to extend the tenure of Amir Das Commission
A large number of dalits were killed in Bathepur massacre engineered by the Ranveer Sena'
Party leader to call on the Governor in this connection with a request to intervene into the matter
- Pension Issue In State Bank Of India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Ceiling remained static at Rs. 4,250 for over nine years despite repeated recommendations'
Whenever there was an upward revision in wages, negotiations were initiated with the management on pension and the decision arrived at was put up to the Finance M
- Get Back To Work (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 10, 2006)
The govt must not allow itself to be held to ransom again
- Sbi Strike Called Off After Fm Intervenes, Pension Revised (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
The week-old strike at the State Bank of India (SBI) was finally called off today after day-long negotiations between senior Finance Ministry officials and SBI management and employees’ unions.
- The Challenges In An Era Of Liberalisation (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Apr 10, 2006)
A Pay Commission is often not the culmination of difficulties, but their starting point. An unending exercise in lobbying and activist interventions by various coalition partners seems to be on the Government's agenda in the next few years.
- Great Rip-Off In Name Of Development (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 10, 2006)
Why do we Indians find it so difficult to believe that foreigners are waiting to pour billions of dollars into India and are unable to digest the claim that a Sensex of 11,900 is based purely on fundamentals?
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