Chennai : The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the regulator of the banking sector has not taken the banks to task for their customer-unfriendly practices and remained silent, states a Memorandum signed by All India Bank Employees’ Association along with NGOs. “The RBI as the banking regulator has been proactive in improving the customer […]
Chennai : Shifting the responsibility of cleanliness in villages to legislators and Commune Commissioners, Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi on Saturday said free rice to the poor would be provided to only those villages that are certified to be free of open defecation and garbage. In a tweet, Bedi said: “Linked free rice distribution to […]
Chennai : A court in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai on Friday sentenced to death five persons who poisoned illicit liquor that left 13 people dead in 2000. The deaths occurred in the Tiruvannamalai district, around 200 km from here. The five had mixed poison in the illicit liquor brewed by a person as part of business […]
Chennai : The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking disqualification of 11 AIADMK legislators, including Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, for voting against the government during a confidence motion moved by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami last year. Dismissing the petition filed by DMK Whip R. Sakkrapani, the court said it could not […]
Chennai : The Apollo Hospital on Thursday told the Madras High Court that it does not have blood samples of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. On Wednesday, the court had ordered Apollo Hospital to submit a report on the blood samples of Jayalalithaa, who was admitted to the hospital on September 22, 2016 […]
Chennai : The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered Apollo Hospital to submit a report on the blood samples of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa by Thursday. The court’s order came as it heard a petition filed by S. Amrutha, who claims to be Jayalalithaa’s daughter. It fixed the next hearing for June 4. […]
Chennai : The Indian space agency has recalled its communication satellite GSAT-11 from Arianespace’s rocket port in French Guiana for further tests, to be on the safe side, said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Sivan on Wednesday. “We are bringing back the GSAT-11 satellite to carry out some tests to be doubly sure […]
Chennai : The Indian space agency has recalled its communication satellite GSAT-11 from Arianespace’s rocket port in Kourou in French Guiana, said Arianespace. “Due to additional technical checks with the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) GSAT-11 satellite, to be conducted from the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) located in Bengaluru, the Ariane 5 launch initially planned […]
Chennai : The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted a diesel smuggling racket in the guise of mineral spirit by some operators based in Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh and here, an official statement said on Saturday. Diesel is a restricted commodity for import as per the Foreign Trade Policy and can be imported only by […]
Chennai : Nine coastal states and islands have been warned about rough seas over the next two days, a senior Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)official said on Friday. “There is no change in our warning issued on Thursday. As per our prediction, the rough sea condition will prevail in nine states during […]
