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There is a buzz in the air about privatisation of some of the public sector banks (PSBs). There has been talk of privatising Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI Bank) in financial year (FY) 2020–21. Of the disinvestment target for the year of Rs 2.1 trillion, Rs 90 billion was to have come from stake sale in Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and the privatisation of IDBI Bank. The media has also reported proposals to privatise PSBs that were not part of the mega-mergers announced earlier this year, namely Punjab and Sind Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, UCO Bank, Bank of In...

Updated: December 13, 2020 07:42 IST Why it is important to listen to writers and thinkers from Arundhati Roy to Yanis Varoufakis Share Article AAA Why it is important to listen to writers and thinkers from Arundhati Roy to Yanis Varoufakis All democracies take pride in protecting free speech. Space for dissent is what differentiates a democracy from a dictatorship. But even in democratic societies, dissenters do not have it easy. Some get killed for their views (Narendra Dabholkar, M.M. Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh come to mind), some end up in jail (Anand Teltumbde, Umar Khalid), while those nei...