Highlights
The four PSU non-life insurers are National Insurance Company Ltd, The New India Assurance Company Ltd, The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd and United India Insurance Company Ltd.
The two-day Nationwide bank strike caused a lot of inconvenience to the customers on services such as cash withdrawals, deposits, cheque clearances, remittance services.
However, branches of private-sector lenders like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank are open as they are not part of the strike.
It is going to be a relay strike by unions in the public sector financial services sector domain.
After the two-day strike Monday and Tuesday by the bankers, unions in the public sector general insurance companies and Life Insurance Corporation of India will go on strike on Wednesday(March 17) and Thursday (March 18), respectively.
Following consultation with shareholders, Santos has announced it intends to provide shareholders with a non-binding advisory vote on the company’s Climate Change Report at the 2022 Annual General Meeting.
Australia: Strike Energy awarded highly prospective Perth Basin block
15 Mar 2021
The block is the last remaining un-held acreage in the high-profile Permian Gas Fairway.
Highly prospective Eneabba Deep lead identified within the permit.
Strike Energy has been selected as the successful bidder for Perth Basin block L20-3 at the end of the
WA Petroleum Acreage Release 1 of 2020.
L20-3 Block Location
The L20-3 block is located at the southern edge of the prolific Perth Basin Permian Gas Fairway, which has yielded more than 3 TCF of discoveries to date (including Strike’s West Erregulla gas discovery). The block is flanked by gas discoveries, with the Permian Beharra Springs complex and West Erregulla fields to the North, the Permian Woodada field to the West and the Ocean Hill Jurassic wet gas discovery to the East.
Congress, government spar in Lok Sabha over donations to PM Cares Fund
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Last Updated: Mar 15, 2021, 03:39 PM IST
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The Prime Minister s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund was established in March last year with the primary objective to deal with any kind of emergency situation like the one currently posed by the COVID-19 outbreak and provide relief to those affected.
The Congress and the government traded barbs in Lok Sabha on Monday over donations to the PM Cares Fund, with the opposition party alleging that LIC gave money to the corpus instead of providing benefits to people and union minister Anurag Thakur hitting back at it over the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation accepting funds from China. During the Question Hour, acting Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Ravneet Singh said migrant labourers and the poor suffered during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.