Meera Sanyal, Country Executive, ABN Amro Bank, revealed the bank's merger plans with Royal Bank of Scotland. Dutch Central Bank has approved of the merger and a country-by-country approval is being sought. As part of the deal, RBS will acquire the banking business in India and Fortis will buy the asset management company. Neither have a presence in India. ABN Amro is negotiating with RBI too on this issue. The bank will continue to operate through 28 branches in 21 cities.
By splitting its business into separate verticals with dedicated portfolio heads, CavinKare looks to improve distribution and facilitate more launches in the future
Thirumagan is a fine album, but quite lacking in originality.
The two were arrested by the Mumbai crime branch sleuths late Wednesday night.
ABN Amro Bank's India chief Meera Sanyal also said she expected inflation to reduce after October. Sanyal also said there has been a slight increase in increase in delinquencies in the credit card and personal loan portfolios of banks and attributed it to higher interest rates.
Gujarat police on Thursday filed the chargesheet against controversial godman Asaram in the rape case, on the complaint filed by a Surat-based woman.
Lots of love songs in the horror movie, 1920 London, writes Aelina Kapoor.
Pallavi will be make her debut opposite Silambarasan in Gautham Menon's untitled film.
The musician has come up with a few original and interesting tracks which have contemporary sounds replete with melody brought on by a captivating mix of instruments like the flute, harmonica, trumpet and saxophone, to mention a few. That said, Deva has not been able to shed his copycat-tendencies completely.
Muzaffar Ali returns as a director after three decades.
Vaana can be watched for the technical aspects. As a love story, it seems to be washed away by the rain!
A high voltage entertainer with good performances from Darshan and Navya Nair. Music is the highlight of this Kannada entertainer. Worth a watch.
After the controversy surrounding Kannada actress Jayamala's entry into the Sabarimala temple, a new row has been kicked up by Malayalam actress Meera Jasmine, a Christian, offering prayers at Raja Rajeshwara temple at Taliparamba near Kannur.
In the Majnu Ka Tila area in New Delhi, Children carrying tricolour burst crackers and shouted 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'.
Her brother Shailendra cleared class XII examination at the age of 11.
To think that in this day and age, there can be a man like Dr Kalam reinforces your strength in humanity and all that is good in it, says Meera Johri.
The agreed text of the proposed agreement on pre-notification of the tests will be referred to the foreign secretaries of the two countries for formalisation, Shankar said after the talks with Pakistan's additional secretary.
Union Minister of State for IT and Communications Milind Deora will be taking on Shiv Sena, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Aam Aadmi Party candidates as he tries to win the South Mumbai seat for the third time in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Co-stars, colleagues, friends, everyone who knew him... paid homage to Vinod Khanna.
Filmmakers trying to exploit sensationalism via cell phones.
The music of this Dhanush and Meera Jasmine starrer is run of the mill with an overdose of hip hop beats.
VTV Ganesh's Inga Enna Solludhu is a total waste of time, write S Saraswathi.
With the issue of pre-notification on missile tests high on agenda, India and Pakistan held their third round of expert-level talks on nuclear confidence-building measures (CBMs) in New Delhi on Friday.
Puneet has put in a lot of efforts to deliver a powerful performance as the rich NRI. In the first half, his body language as a rich NRI is perfect. As usual his fight and song sequences are a treat to his fans.
India's hockey captain Dilip Tirkey married Rourkela girl Meera at a Catholic church on Monday.
Four films are releasing today, which one are you looking froward to?
Defendants were permitted to use the name, figure, picture of Kalam in individual capacity as candidate and not in the name of the political party.
A hundred dancers perform the Isai Vani Natyanjali to songs sung by the legendary singer, the late M S Subbulakshmi.
Rediff.com's Rajesh Karkera takes in the best of Bhutan, a beautiful little kingdom that has bundles and bundles of goodness to offer.
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