Stocks in news: Tata Communications, MTAR Tech, Adani Green, Welspun, Max Healthcare, NIIT
Shares of Tata Communications, MTAR Tech, Adani Green, Welspun, Max Healthcare, NIIT, AU Small Finance Bank will be in focus in Tuesday s trading session
BusinessToday.In | March 16, 2021 | Updated 09:14 IST
Stocks to watch today: A Tata Communications, MTAR Tech, Adani Green, Welspun, Max Healthcare, NIIT, AU Small Finance Bank
The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty are likely to open higher on Tuesday, tracking positive global cues and firm trading at Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange. Among the individual stocks, shares of Tata Communications, MTAR Tech, Adani Green, Welspun, Max Healthcare, NIIT, AU Small Finance Bank and others will be in focus in Tuesday s trading session.
Top losers in the stock market today: ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC Bank, NTPC were among top losers on BSE and NSE on March 16
Why the two-day strike by PSU bank staff won’t be the last of the protests
Why the two-day strike by PSU bank staff won’t be the last of the protests | India Today Insight
The government’s plans to privatise two state-owned banks has staff unions seeing red
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Bank employees protest against the move to privatise public sector banks, at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, 15th March (Rajwant Rawat) The strike by hundreds of thousands of employees in the public banking sector for two days, March 15 and 16, which has disrupted services across the country, is the first major nation-wide strike related to bank privatisation plans after they were announced in the Union Budget on February 1 this year. Going by the nature of the issue, these protests will not be the last.
Not all banks will be privatised, says Sitharaman as over 10 lakh employees continue strike
The Union finance minister said the central government will ensure that the interests of every banking employee was ‘absolutely protected’. Updated Mar 16, 2021 · 07:32 pm A file photo of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. | PTI
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday tried to assuage the fears of bank employees, who have launched a countrywide stir against the Centre’s policies. The minister assured them that not all state-owned banks will be privatised under the central government’s disinvestment plan.
Addressing a Cabinet briefing, Sitharaman said that the public sector enterprise policy “very clearly” stated that the Centre will continue operating public sector banks. “So, just to quickly say that all private banks will be sold off, is not right,” the finance minister said.
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha, during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi.
Amid bank strike over the proposed privatisation of the public sector banks, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said not all banks are going to be privatised adding the interests of the employees will be taken care of. We have announced a Public Enterprise Policy, where we have identified 4 areas where public sector presence will be there, in this, the financial sector too is there. Not all banks are going to be privatized, she said. Interests of workers of banks which are likely to be privatized will absolutely be protected - whether their salaries or scale or pension, all will be taken care of, Sitharaman added.