To mark its 150th year of inception, Standard Chartered Bank would strengthen its presence in the country and open 23 new branches and 81 ATMs in this calendar year.
There were no immediate reports of any loss of life or damage to property.
Abdulalatif Sereki scored twice in a 3-1 victory in the National Football League.
Second-half goals from penalty-corners gave the Punjab side a 2-0 win in their opening match in the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
Twenty pilgrims, including 15 women, were killed and 50 injured when an over-loaded mini truck rolled down a 100 feet deep gorge near village Nari on the Hoshiarpur-Dharmsala road in the wee hours on Thursday.
A goal in injury time enabled the Punjab side beat Indian Bank 2-1 in the National Football League.
'Stumbling blocks teach a lot and should be taken as stepping stones.'
The plane fell in the fields near Mahianwala village, about 30km from Ferozepur.
Nearly $120 bn will come from private sector
The speedy striker got both goals as Dempo beat JCT 2-0 in a National Football League match in Ludhiana.
A judging controversy couldn't stop the Indian juggernaut from rolling with as many as eight pugilists reaching the quarterfinals in the ongoing AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships on Monday.
The only factor working against the AAP, and in favour of the Congress, is the infighting in the former.
East bengal suffered their first defeat in the National Football League going down 0-2.
Metro Tyres said it aims a 10 per cent growth in turnover this fiscal to Rs 330 crore and Rs 500 crore in the next three years on the back of a foray into the domestic two-wheeler tyre market in technical alliance with Continental AG of Germany.
The 20-year-old hockey star was transported in a helicopter provided by the Sahara Group.
The Phagwara side won the National Football League match 2-1.
As AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal returned home late on Tuesday evening, it was left to senior advocate Shanti Bhushan to go to Tihar jail and convince the jailed leader to sign the personal bail bond to walk out of prison.
'I don't remember the last time I was this invested in the characters of a story since Doordarshan's golden age or early days of cable television boom,' applauds Sukanya Verma.
They beat Border Security Force in the final. Namdhari XI finished third.
Delhiites woke up to a chilly morning with the mercury dipping to 6.8 degree Celsius, a drop of nearly five notches from Saturday when the minimum settled at 11.5 degree.
Athlete OP Jaisha is confident that she can start her training next week having recovered well from H1N1 fever which she contracted during the Rio Olympics even though the SAI doctor has advised her a month's rest. "After getting discharged from the hospital on August 29, I am taking rest in my native - Thrissilery village near Manananthavady in Wayanad district. I will start from training from next week," Jaisha said.
Sati Pitoliwali, who boarded the train at Daund, said he raised an alarm but it was too late by then. "There were people screaming. Before anybody could realise what was happening, we saw flames leaping out from the S-4 coach," he said.
Two quick second-half goals gave the Goa side a 3-1 win in the NFL match.
Sunday Seah's goal enabled the Goa side pick a point from the National Football League match.
The Shiromoni Akali Dal on Sunday welcomed its alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party's decision to field Arun Jaitley from Amritsar, and said he would win the elections by a heavy margin.
Now railway passengers can book meals through SMS to 139 as the service will be launched from Thursday on a few selected trains on trial basis.
"You vote thinking that you are voting to make Arvind Kejriwal as the chief minister (of Punjab). Your vote is for Kejriwal," Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
The company will engage various NGOs for the construction of toilets as well as undertake awareness campaigns for better sanitation, it said adding that a total of around 100,000 households would be benefited by the sanitation initiative.
This is the first market where the newest entrant to Mondelez's global chocolate portfolio will be launched, Siddharth Mukherjee, director, chocolate category & media, Mondelez India Foods Ltd, said in an exclusive conversation with Business Standard.
Most parts in north India on Sunday continued to reel under cold wave conditions coupled with fog, with mercury plunging below the freezing point in Rajasthan's sole hill station Mount Abu.
UDAN demonstrates that good policy-making can fulfill important public requirements without requiring budgetary support, says MoS for civil aviation Jayant Sinha.
Several flights and trains were delayed on Tuesday as the entire North India reeled under a dense blanket of fog.
Lashker-e-Tayiba operative Abdul Karim Tunda, who is admitted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, underwent a surgery to implant a pacemaker in his heart on Saturday.
Anti-incumbency sentiment in Punjab puts SAD in a weak spot. But voters remain divided over AAP and Congress. Sahil Makkar reports.
He was a talismanic midfielder who played the game on his own terms with fitness being key to his success
In Uttar Pradesh, southwest monsoon has been normal so far where rains and thundershowers occurred in few places since Friday.
India's most loved controversial reality show is back!
Paramilitary forces were on Tuesday deployed in four districts of Punjab as a precautionary measure even as another incident of "sacrilege" of a holy book took place at a village in Bathinda.
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