-The Hindu In the eye of the storm for funding corporate warehousing projects on terms far softer than those offered to poor farmers, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is now blaming the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for the transgressions. Following a story in The Hindu, (‘As farmers suffer, NABARD offers soft loans to corporates, ' December 10, 2012), NABARD came under...
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Action Against Banks if Guilty: RBI on Cobrapost Sting
-Outlook Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today said it has completed investigations against banks following the Cobrapost expose and will take action if they are found guilty of violating prudential banking norms. "We have done investigations, we have prepared an internal report. There are processes to be followed to take investigations to its logical closure... "The first is action against individual institutions who are involved in practises which are not consistent with the...
More »It is only KYC norm violation, says RBI
-The Hindu Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor K.C. Chakrabarty, on Monday, refuted money laundering charges levelled against various banks, and said that all exposures by Cobrapost.com were connected to know-your-customer (KYC) norms. "We are seeing how the banks are following up on the KYC norms. There are certain differences in the manner of reporting of KYC norms in each bank...Need to strengthen KYC guidelines," he said. In March this year,...
More »Jharkhand family grapples with encounter death of son -Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Gumla (Jharkhand): There had been an Employees' strike at the college since February. Mukesh Sahu, 21, a second-year B.Sc. student, spent the Thursday afternoon in March running errands at Gumla market. As he sat down near the town pond to catch up with his college friends, his phone rang. "Naveen has been shot. The police shot him." It was his uncle, a couple of years older than him,...
More »Roar on rivals, silence on own ranks
-The Telegraph Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee today waved at a rally photographs and newspaper advertisements that she claimed established "links" between CPM leaders and the Saradha Group and other deposit-mobilising companies, but steered clear of commenting on Trinamul's alleged connections with such entities. Addressing her first public meeting since the Saradha crisis unfolded, the chief minister did not mention if she was planning action against Trinamul leaders whose names have cropped up in...
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