KOLKATA: India’s largest bank SBI is considering partial sale of non-performing assets to asset reconstruction companies. “We are considering some proposals to sell NPAs in the current quarter (Jan-Mar 2014). This is the first time we would be selling NPAs to ARCs,” SBI chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya said here on Saturday. NPA reduction is a major […]
CHIDAMBARAM There is something surprising in the radioactive wreck that is the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: opportunity. To clean it up, Japan will have to develop technology and expertise that any nation with a nuclear reactor will one day need. Eyeing dozens of ageing reactors at home and hundreds of others worldwide that eventually […]
SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Saturday observed the 21st foundation day of the pro-freedom amalgam and reiterated to carry forward the struggle for Kashmiris right to self-determination “inspite of difficulties and hardships.” In a statement, the amalgam spokesman said that “a special joint session of its Executive Council, General Council and Working […]
NEW DELHI: The government of India has the right to set the country’s inflation target, while the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) role is to implement the decision, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said in a joint news conference with the RBI governor. The comment by Chidambaram comes after a RBI panel in January proposed moving […]
SRINAGAR: Dukhteran-e-Millat headed by Asiya Andrabi Saturday expressed sympathy with Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudin over the demise of his brother and mother-in-law who passed away recently. According to a statement here, a delegation led by DeM leader Rubina Firdous visited Soibugh to offer condolence with the bereaved family. Meanwhile, Asiya Andrabi has expressed her […]
NEW DELHI: Don’t back off after one interview with one channel. This is the advice to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi from Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. “All I would tell him (Rahul) not to sort of back off after one interview with one channel. My advice to him, and I have no hesitation in sharing […]
JAMMU: Government has directed that all the orders of transfers in School Education Department issued on or before 4th of March, 2014 and have not been implemented as on or before 5th March, 2014 fore-noon are kept in abeyance during the Model Code of Conduct which is already in force with immediate effect as announced […]
Karan Singh, the heir to Kashmir’s autocratic ruler, was born in France on March 9, 1931. The state celebrated the birth of the Yuvaraj for several days. Molvi Abdullah Vakil wrote a 32-page pamphlet congratulating Maharaja Hari Singh. In the pamphlet, Vakil sought free education for all, end to unemployment, ban on begging and misuse […]
BY SHEKHAR GUPTA Several years ago, the then British high commissioner suggested, in the course of a spirited conversation one evening at his residence, that it would be a good idea if England and India were to play two cricket Test series every year, one in either country. “Brilliant idea,” I said, “but you will […]
KJM VARMA BEIJING: China Saturday said its initiatives of building Maritime Silk Route connecting Asian states besides reviving the centuries old Silk Road through the Central Asian states were aimed at boosting the renewal of Asia. “We want to work with relevant countries to add two powerful wings to the rejuvenation of Asia,” Foreign Minister […]