Mumbai, 1/7: State Bank of India on Saturday announced appointment of Kameshwar Rao Kodavanti, who has been with the bank since 1991, as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Kodavanti replaces Charanjit Surinder Singh Attra who has resigned from the postKameshwar Rao Kodavanti has been appointed as CFO of State Bank of India with effect…
Jaipur, 1/7: Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday met Rajkumar Sharma, a witness in Kanhaiya Lal murder case who recently suffered a brain hemorrhage, of any help he needed. Raje is on a two-day tour to Udaipur and had attended the rally of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday. “I wanted…
Varanasi, 1/7: Samajwadi Party workers in Varanasi celebrated its chief Akhilesh Yadav’s 50th birthday on Saturday by cutting a tomato-shaped cake and distributing tomatoes among people to underline its rising prices. A party worker who organised the celebration said they could have distributed sweets but “even the sweets have become expensive
New Delhi, 1/7: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday extended his greetings to doctors on the occasion of Doctors’ Day, saying their unwavering commitment to serving humanity has made a whole lot of difference in the world. He also extended his gratitude to the chartered accountants on the occasion of CA Day “for…
Islamabad, ,1/7: At least seven persons were killed and 20 injured after two overspeeding buses collided in Pakistan’s Sindh province, officials said. A police official confirmed that the accident took place on Friday, the second day of Eid. “One passenger coach was coming to Karachi from Lahore while the other one was…
Ahmedabad, 30/6: Gujarat will host four meetings of G20 in the first two weeks of July, including a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of G20 countries, an official said on Friday. The meetings will take place in Surat, Kevadia and Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad, the official said.
Washington DC, 30/6: Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine, has died at 89, Variety reported on Friday, citing a statement from his family. Arkin died at his home in…
Java, 30/6: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Friday evening, the country’s geophysics agency (BMKG) said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties and no tsunami warning was issued. BMKG said the medium-sized quake, which hit at a depth of 25 kilometers (15 miles), was felt in…
Mumbai, 30/6: Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) will back the central government’s push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), sources told India Today on Friday. Party leader Sanjay Raut said the party’s line of thinking has always been to have a UCC but the final decision will be made after the draft has been made….
Finland, 30/6: Finland’s economy minister Vilhelm Junnila resigned on Friday after just 10 days in office, the nationalist Finns Party said, over earlier statements he had made linked to Nazis. “For the continuation of the government and the reputation of Finland, I see that it is impossible for me to continue as a…
