MUMBAI: RBI has proposed tighter rules for classifying gold-backed farm loans as priority sector lending (PSL), requiring banks to verify borrowers’ actual agricultural credit needs against the district scale of finance for the crop. Banks would also have to document field inspections, crop hypothecation and evidence of agricultural activity by landless cultivators failing which loans…
Sunny Deol praises ‘Ramayana: Rise of a Legend’ after playing Hanuman in post-credit scene: ‘This film is not less than any Hollywood film; but I would say it is better than them’ ‘Ramayana: Rise of a Legend’ released in theatres on November 5, and its post-credit scene has become the biggest talking point among viewers….
Two teen boys drowned while bathing in the Hooghly near Mousi Ghat in Burrabazar on Sunday Kolkata: Two teen boys drowned while bathing in the Hooghly near Mousi Ghat in Burrabazar on Sunday. The victims, Mohammad Islam (13), was a native of Sitamarhi in Bihar, and Abdul Sadique (13), was a resident of Maheshtala, South…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A proposed residential neighbourhood can face uncertainty when an industrial facility is planned nearby, particularly when future homes fall within the distance restricted by local zoning rules. A Georgia developer faced this situation after a county approved a permit for a waste processing facility near its planned 97-townhome community. Although 46 of…
Sub-divisional magistrate Rajat Malhotra said the administration swung into action immediately after receiving the call. NEW DELHI: A massive multi-agency search operation was launched after a four-year-old boy fell into an open manhole near Dass Garden Colony in Delhi’s Nangli Vihar area, officials said.Teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Delhi Fire Services (DFS),…
Image Credit: ANI (The fire was reported at around 9.30pm at a factory in Phase 1 of the industrial area. ) NEW DELHI: Four people died and two others were injured after a fire broke out at a shoe manufacturing factory in Delhi’s Mangolpuri Industrial Area on Friday night.The fire was reported at around 9.30pm…
No one was injured in the incident Kolkata: Two bike-borne assailants snatched a handbag from a woman near Allen Park in Park Street around 4.20 am on Saturday.According to cops, the complainant, Krishna Banik (28), a resident of Kasba, was returning home in an app-cab with her two friends, Rinu Ghosh (29) and Neem Khan…
Kolkata: The presence of the Buxa tigress near human habitation in Assam days ahead of the Kali Puja festivities has prompted the Bengal forest department to decide that it would bring her back to Buxa Tiger Reserve, state forest minister Manoj Kumar Oraon said on Saturday. The tigress’s migration from north Bengal to Assam’s Raimona…
Gautam Gambhir and Yashasvi Jaiswal (AFP Photo) Former India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate has questioned India’s decision to keep Yashasvi Jaiswal out of the ODI team. He feels it is difficult to understand why a batter with so much talent and hunger to score runs is not getting a regular place in the side.In…
Left to right: Rajah Chaudhry (NBA’s Head of Strategy, Asia Pacific), Sunny Malik (Country Head, NBA India), DeMarcus Cousins and Isiah Thomas. (Image: LinkedIn) New Delhi: For a league that has spent decades turning basketball players into global icons and team jerseys into fashion statements, the NBA‘s ambitions in India were never going to be…
