Drastic step or careless move?

Bill allows regional rural banks to tap private capital

Why central banks need to take human rights more seriously

36 central banks and banking supervisors, participate in the central bank and supervisors network for greening the financial system

For more skin in the game

With RBI and the Supreme Court calling for action against powerful debtors, state-owned banks have been put on notice

प. बंगाल में बिना लाइसेंस के चल रही हैं दवा दुकानें और ब्लड बैंक

कैग की ताजा रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि पश्चिम बंगाल के दवा…

Drones deliver medicines in Africa

A US-based company transports life-saving drugs, 148 vaccines and blood units to 2,000 health facilities across Ghana

47 per cent blood banks in Delhi do not have licences; some for years

Two blood banks were found to have been functioning without renewing licence for more than four years

Banks at a loss

Piling up non-performing assets serve as a lesson for banks to do social and environmental impact assessments of projects more rigorously

Who foots the huge dole for business?

Bad loans of public sector banks to business are more than double the food subsidy

Tikait on Green revolution

When asked to comment on the green revolution, Mahendra singh Tikait, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader relates it to issues of organic …

Tikait on farmer loans

Here's a sneak preview of BKU (Bharat Kisan Union) Leader Mahendra Singh Tikait's tête-á-tête with DTE on farmers' income, …

Banking on a flimsy promise

The government is clueless about incentives it has promised under its Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana to bring every family under the formal …

Panel recommends deadline for cleaning Yamuna banks of construction debris, garbage

Proposal to be submitted to National Green Tribunal for final order 

Maharashtra DCCBs bailed out, finally

But with banking applications already rejected, RBI will need time to set the banks rolling

Uttarakhand chief minister bans construction along riverbanks

Construction to be 200 m from river; hoteliers welcome move, but demand compensation

Crafty accounting

The budget projects a pro-poor image, while covertly playing to the market

HC gives temporary reprieve to three Maharashtra DCCBs facing liquidation

These banks being key pillar of the farm lending sector, 100,000 farmers may be affected this year

100,000 Maharashtra farmers may not get loan to sow kharif crop

Reserve Bank of India refuses to bail out three district cooperative banks

Nothing to bank on

The government’s much-hyped Direct Benefit Transfer programme has hit a roadblock. Banks have failed to meet the huge demand for opening …

Drugs advisory board says no to direct blood transfusion

It says controlling infections more important than allowing unbanked direct blood transfusion

Microcredit scheme for solar lighting system

Rural families pay less than what they spent on kerosene lamps for off-grid lighting