Salee S Nair, MD & CEO, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Chennai: Private sector lender Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB) is looking to invest heavily in cybersecurity, increasing its allocation to 20% of its total information technology (IT) spending next year. The Tuticorin-headquartered bank has earmarked a capex of Rs 280 crore for the current fiscal (FY27), of…
Kolkata: The rapid rise of Bihar cricket has gathered pace with emerging fast bowlers Vasudeo Prasad and Rinkle Tiwary being selected by the prestigious MRF Pace Foundation for a high-performance training programme in Australia.Their selection further underlines Bihar’s transformation from being on the cricketing fringes to one of India’s emerging centres for fast-bowling talent, with…
CGPC functionaries break the fast on Monday evening Jamshedpur: The Central Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (CGPC), apex body of the city’s Sikh community, staged a sit-in and a daylong hunger strike at Sakchi roundabout on Monday in support of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s nationwide protest against the proposed India-US trade deal.Protesters claimed the agreement could harm…
Police said the 16 Maoists face a total of 425 cases Ranchi: As many as 16 Maoists, several of them associated with CPI (Maoist) central committee member Misri Besra’s squad, are set to lay down arms at the state police headquarters on Tuesday, officers said.The surrender will take place under the state govt’s Operation Navjeevan,…
NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Monday announced plans to launch a website to raise public donations for a legal aid fund and connect lawyers with protesters facing legal action after the 37-day NEET agitation. The announcement came amid the party’s allegations that protesters were being detained and cases were being filed despite…
Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari inaugurated the new flyover bridge on Burdwan Road in Siliguri on Monday Siliguri: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday blamed the previous state govt’s “confrontation” with Centre for delays in completing Siliguri’s Bardhaman Road flyover-cum-rail overbridge, saying North Bengal’s infrastructure suffered for years because of political conflict.Inaugurating the Rs 70 crore…
Police action during CJP’s protest at Jantar Mantar last week Mumbai: Many social media accounts from Pakistan were involved in a concerted AI-based disinformation campaign to create unrest during the CJP protests in the country, according to the Maharashtra cyber cell. It has got 429 such accounts and posts blocked and removed.No FIR has yet…
The road was being cleaned, but traces of the protest lingered. NEW DELHI: The stage where activist Sonam Wangchuk sat on hunger strike was gone. The tents, temporary kitchens and crowds that had occupied the road for weeks had disappeared. Yet Jantar Mantar was far from silent.Two days after the 36-day student agitation came to…
The minister’s response comes amid Tamil Nadu’s continued opposition to the Mekedatu project. CHENNAI: Union minister of state for Jal Shakti Raj Bhushan Choudhary on Monday informed Parliament that there is no mention in the Supreme Court’s final verdict on the Cauvery water dispute that Karnataka should obtain the consent of lower riparian states, including…
A police constable in Siwan has been suspended after he fired an AK-47 rifle into the air without authorization SIWAN: Following political uproar and allegations in Parliament over alleged police excesses, the Siwan district administration in Bihar on Monday initiated action against the police personnel involved in the firing incident during recent student protests.Siwan district…
