-Hindustan Times The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) said it will support the agitation being planned by United Front of Banking Unions against the government’s decision to merge ten Banks. Thiruvananthapuram: The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), labour wing of the RSS on Saturday criticised the bank merger plan announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying it was done without any study and it will only protect interests of corporate houses. “No serious...
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Rs 71,500 crore worth of bank frauds detected in FY19: RBI report -Ashwin Manikandan
-The Economic Times Indian banking system detected Rs 71,500 crore worth of frauds in financial year 2018-19, the RBI report said. Indian banking system detected Rs 71,500 crore worth of frauds in financial year 2018-19 which to put in scale is slightly more than the Rs 71,000 crore recapitalisation package planned by the government to revive the health of its public-sector Banks. Interestingly, over 90 percent of these losses were to the government...
More »Public sector Banks merger: Modi govt to announce big bang plan soon -Arup Roychoudhury & Somesh Jha
-Business Standard Finance ministry has called a meeting with chief executives of ten public sector Banks, on Friday The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has readied its mega plan for merging multiple set of public sector Banks (PSB) and is set to make an announcement anytime soon, according to multiple sources. The department of financial services in the finance ministry has called a meeting with chief executives of ten public sector Banks, which...
More »Fake 500 rupee notes up 121% in 2018-19, says RBI
-PTI * Counterfeiting of the newly-designed ?2,000 notes shot by 21.9% in 2018-19 in comparison to the previous year, the RBI said * RBI said that counterfeit notes detected in the denomination of ?100 declined by 7.5% New Delhi: Counterfeiting of the newly-designed Rs.500 notes shot up by 121 per cent and of the Rs.2,000 notes by 21.9 per cent in 2018-19 in comparison to the previous year, the RBI said on Thursday. Of...
More »Hardly the brick and mortar of a revival -Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu The transfer of the RBI’s surplus is only a stopgap measure which will not address the key problem of a lack of demand There is no longer any room for doubt on the parlous state of the Indian economy. The automobile industry, seen as a bellwether of activity in the post-liberalisation years, is in crisis, as automakers, parts manufacturers and dealers have laid off about 350,000 workers since April this...
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