Day: March 6, 2020

6 dead as car plunges into gorge in Tehri Garhwal

7:38 pm March 6, 2020

New Tehri (Uttarakhand): Six people, including three women, were killed on Friday and four injured after their car plunged into a gorge in Tehri Garhwal district, police sources said. The accident took place near Devidhar on Jwarna-Bagiyal motor road when the car in which they were travelling fell into a 250-300 metre deep gorge, they […]

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Bimal Julka sworn in as CIC; Amita Pandove becomes IC

7:36 pm March 6, 2020

New Delhi: Information Commissioner Bimal Julka was appointed as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on Friday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Julka as CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, it said. Later, Julka administered the oath of […]

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Coronavirus: 12 member team from Telangana visit Kerala

7:30 pm March 6, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: A 12-member team from Telengana, where a patient has tested positive for corona virus, on Friday met Kerala Health Minister K K Shailaja and other officials to get a first hand knowledge about the manner in which the state had successfully treated and cured three affected patients. The minister said many states had evinced […]

FM says RBI to look into what went wrong at Yes Bank

7:27 pm March 6, 2020

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the government has asked the Reserve Bank to look into what went wrong at Yes Bank and fix individual responsibilities. Addressing a press conference after the RBI superseded the board of Yes Bank and placed withdrawal restrictions, she said the bank was being monitored since 2017 […]

SBI has shown interest in investing in Yes Bank: RBI

7:25 pm March 6, 2020

Mumbai: The RBI on Friday said the State Bank of India (SBI) has expressed willingness to invest in crisis-ridden Yes Bank. In a draft ‘Yes Bank Ltd. Reconstruction Scheme, 2020’, the RBI also said the strategic investor bank will have to pick up 49 per cent stake and it cannot reduce holding to below 26 […]