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‘Their financial health has improved’ The Finance Ministry expects the remaining three public sector banks (PSBs) to be out of the RBI’s prompt corrective action (PCA) framework in two months, as their financial health has improved. Indian Overseas Bank, Central Bank of India and UCO Bank are currently under this framework which puts several restrictions on them, including on lending, management compensation and directors’ fees. “These three banks are also now consistently for the las...

Vaccine being given to the beneficiaries, in Bengaluru. File   | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar All states and Union Territories have been provided with COVID-19 vaccines, Minister of State for Health Ashwin Kumar Choubey said in a written reply to a question raised in the Upper House. The government aims to inoculate over 92.6 lakh healthcare workers employed in Central, state and private facilities through its COVID-19 vaccination drive launched on January 16, Rajya Sabha was informed on Tu...

Updated: Share Article AAA Department of Posts has informed that the Hyderabad postal region has made 124 Aadhaar centres and 15 mobile kits operational at post-offices in 28 districts of Telangana to help ration card holders to update their ‘Iris’ and mobile number in Aadhaar card, keeping in view of discontinuation of biometric system due to COVID-19 pandemic. A fee of ₹50 need to paid for updating the mobile number or ₹100 for ‘Iris’update. It is ₹100 for both mobile number an...

Couple arrested for forced termination of pregnancy Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Attur All Women Police arrested a couple, S. Subramani and Selvi, for allegedly forcing their 19-year-old daughter to terminate her pregnancy. She was into her fourth month of pregnancy. According to the police, the girl married a guy from Ramanathapuram outside her caste about four months ago and the accused were opposed to it. Recently, she visited her family here without her husband’s knowledge and...

Updated: Share Article AAA Karnataka is seriously considering a complete ban on hookah bars, in concurrence with licensing authorities like the BBMP, announced Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai in the Legislative Assembly. Replying to a question raised by Congress member Sowmya Reddy during Question Hour on Tuesday, he said the government was consistently cracking down on illegal hookah bars. It was considering a ban on hookah bars on the lines of what had been done in other States, he added. On t...

U.P. tops list with 52 deaths The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha, in response to a question about manual scavengers, that 340 people had died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the past five years. In the five years till December 31, 2020, a total of 340 deaths due to manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks were recorded in 19 States and Union Territories, with Uttar Pradesh (52), Tamil Nadu (43) and Delhi (36) topping the list. Maharashtra had...

Appeal to segregate waste Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Hassan City Municipal Council has appealed to the public to segregate waste before dumping it into auto-tippers, meant to collect the waste. In a press release, R. Krishnamurthy, Commissioner, said the National Green Tribunal had issued an order directing the urban local bodies to segregate the waste as dry and wet at collection points. “The residentsshould cooperate with the council to keep the city clean”, he said. Furthe...

Man involved in many temple thefts held Updated: Updated: He is accused in 42 cases in Hyderabad and 21 in AP Share Article A person allegedly involved in several thefts in temples was apprehended, police said on Tuesday. Kulsumpura police, who are investigating the case, identified the accused as Emani Ram Babu (52), who is in the pearl selling business. He is a resident of Netaji Nagar in Neredment. Police recovered three gold nose rings, a mangalsutra, nose ring, gold chain, two gold coins...

Updated: Share Article AAA U.S. lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has revealed that she is a survivor of sexual assault, in an emotional video on Monday, in which she described fearing for her life during the storming of the Capitol on January 6. The New York Congresswoman drew parallels between the lawmakers seeking to “move on” from the Capitol riot and the denial tactics used by abusers. “They’re trying to tell us to move on without any accountability... without confronting the extre...

IPS officer held in Rajasthan Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday arrested Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Manish Agarwal on charges of corruption during his tenure as Superintendent of Police in Dausa. Mr. Agarwal’s house was raided after his arrest and he was being interrogated by a team of investigating officers. Mr. Agarwals name cropped up in a case in which a petrol pump owner, Neeraj Meena, was arrested from Dausa for allegedly deman...