One of the reasons why conviction rates in India are poor is that "adventurism and megalomania overtakes our investigators and professionalism takes a back seat," Jaitley said on Twitter.
Foreign players like Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC and ABN Amro Bank see opportunities to spread their wings in India after the ceiling on voting rights is lifted by the government.
In India, it is not easy to fight it out with the large banks which are nimble-footed and technology-savvy and are continuously innovating on the retail turf with newer products for customer acquisition.
Citibank is no longer quite the king of the Indian credit card market. It has been dethroned by ICICI Bank, which now claims it has 3 million credit cards.
Mired in corruption, politics and with a history of suicides by its hapless depositors, PMC Bank's revival is a challenge very different from Yes Bank and LVB, both for the regulator and the rescuer, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS hailed its expansion from 17 to 114 companies and praised member firms like Standard Chartered Bank PLC, Tata Steel and Daimler-Chrysler.\n
Standard Chartered Bank, which has completed 10 years in credit card business in India, has introduced an equated monthly instalment card.
The legendary runner lamented the fact that today's crop 200 and 400 metres runners lack consistency.
Henry Wanyoike is a strong favourite for the 21 kms half marathon.
Mumbai Marathon Race Director Hugh Jones said the Mumbai event will not have timings as good as those of the London or Chicago marathons.\n\n
Historically, the RBI has tried to keep the crooks at bay by issuing a circular a day. What it needs is more onsite supervision. Merely checking high-frequency data with the help of technology is insufficient, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The Railways lass improved upon her mark of 3.51 metres by four centimeters to win the women's pole vault at the Open National Athletics Championships.
The Karnataka lass set a new meet record on the second day of the Open National athletics championships.
Partially paralysed but with unbreakable will power and determination, Nihad Panju has beaten the odds to become a fitness freak and is all set to run his 4th Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
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.
Private airline Air Sahara on Wednesday launched a credit card with Standard Chartered Bank as part of efforts to improve passenger traffic and boost revenues.
K C Ramu and Sarabjit Kaur emerged best respectively among Indian men and women runners.
StanChart India CEO Zarin Daruwala is building a culture of 'celebrating liabilities,' the tough negotiator tells Niraj Bhatt and Anup Roy over lunch.
Standard Chartered Bank on Monday launched in India its Visa Mini card, which is almost half the size of a regular credit card, targetted at the growing young-earner segment.
Credit cards prove useful when making high value transactions.
Standard Chartered Bank on Tuesday announced a special variable rate offer of 7.49 per cent per annum for home loans across all tenures up to 20 years.
Standard Chartered Bank has revised upward India's economic growth to 7 per cent during 2003-04, and said fiscal deficit was not a matter of concern as long as the high growth in GDP is sustained.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances