Paytm, PPBL discontinue inter-company agreements before RBI deadline

IANS | March 1, 2024 9:58 AM

New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) One 97 Communications Ltd, the parent company of Paytm, and Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL) on Friday announced to discontinue various inter-company agreements, as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ban on the bank’s operations inches closer.

BJP protests 'pro-Pak' slogans in Assembly premises; K'taka Minister says 'probing'

IANS | February 28, 2024 11:04 AM

Bengaluru, Feb 28 (IANS) Karnataka BJP on Wednesday launched a statewide protest to condemn the alleged incident of raising of pro-Pakistan slogans in the Assembly premises here during the victory celebration of a Congress candidate in the Rajya Sabha election. The state home minister, on the other hand, said the allegation was being probed.

Will not let child marriages happen, says Assam CM

IANS | February 26, 2024 3:06 PM

Guwahati, Feb 26 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the menace of child marriage will be eradicated from the state in the next two years, and he will not let such marriages happen.

Sandeshkhali: Trinamool leader who locked himself in house after being chased by women rescued by cops

IANS | February 25, 2024 9:35 PM

Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) Ajit Maiti, a Trinamool Congress leader from the unrest-struck Sandeshkhali area in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, has been rescued by the police after he locked himself in his house for over four hours as he was being chased by a group of local women on Sunday. He was detained by the police after he was persuaded by the cops to come out of the house even as an angry crowd assembled outside his residence.