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India will do well to develop bullion banking and the time is most propitious for it as gold investments are becoming an essential part of any meaningful portfolio.

Ministers must take urgent action to tackle unemployment if Britain is to avoid a post-coronavirus financial disaster, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, reports of domestic violence upsurging all over the world is worrying. The pervasive spread of the virus has forced domestic violence victims to stay at home with their abusers, leaving them with little options to find any shelter or even solace. In abusive households, women have to battle the male aggressor inside and the virus outside. As they are closely confined within the walls of their houses, living with abusive partners hurts them both physically and emotionally.

19th July is a very significant day in the chronicles of the banking sector in our country. It was on this day, on 19th July in the year 1969, that 14 major private banks were nationalised by the Government of India, from when these Banks started chartering a new path with social orientation. The All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) played a leading role in championing the cause and demand for nationalisation of private banks. There were continuous struggles for more than 20 years, including strikes by bank employees, demanding nationalisation of banks.

New Delhi: The Sports School, in association with Bengaluru FC (BFC), today announced a scholarship program for students across the country.

Like many people I’ve followed and been inspired by the extensive news coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests in the US. But I really didn’t understand their extraordinary size until I read a recent New York Times analysis.

BERLIN – Despite concern here about the continuing coronavirus danger, some still have an eye or an ear for new dangers on the international relations front. If they look and listen hard they are hearing an unusual tearing sound.

Afghan Covid-19 patients are picking up the opium habit to pander to the coronavirus vice, liking and getting addicted to opium’s painkilling prowess; many believing that Covid-19 isn’t ‘real’ but a manifestation of God’s anger and distaste against man's cupidity for waste. But to get the opium, the route the Afghan takes is via the Taliban. Opium growers in Afghanistan have to get the Taliban's nod to grow and sell opium and the other narcotic derivatives of the poppy seed and flower. Afghanistan produces over 80 per cent of the world opium and it finances lots of things including its war on those waging the war on terror! Afghans testing coronavirus positive push a seed-size quantity of the sticky opium under the tongue and wait for the narcotic to take hold and play its magic, numb the pain and transport the Covid-19 opium user to another different world where there’s no coronavirus.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In politics, timing is as important as perception. If you get your timing wrong you are bound to land yourself in deep trouble.

Even while the upper caste Brahmins of Uttar Pradesh are yet to reconcile to the brutal reality of cold blooded murder of their Robinhood, Vikas Dubey, the BSP chief Mayawati has started working on the plan to reach out to them and float a new Dalit-Brahmin alliance in the state.