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India’s public sector banks have made huge strides since the days of nationalization. They now handle unrecognizably large deposits compared with the pre-nationalisation days; they have far greater resilience in terms of capital base and own funds; they are offering varied products to their customers; and, the public sector banks handle no less than 80% of all banking transactions in the country.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will be paying an official visit to Bangladesh on September 6 and 7 to impart a new dimension to the bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be accompanying Dr. Singh and this will be the first foreign visit of Banerjee after becoming the Chief Minister in May this year.

New York: A group of independent United Nations human rights experts will on Monday begin a session to discuss 43 confidential cases of arbitrary detention concerning 22 countries and review information relating to those cases, including communications from States.

New York: The AIDS epidemic in Asia and the Pacific is at a crossroads, says a United Nations report released today, which adds that while the region has seen impressive gains in the HIV response, greater and sustained efforts will be needed.

New Delhi: India will urge Sri Lanka for dealing with its Tamil population with a “human face” and call for speedy reconciliation of certain issues including early withdrawal of emergency regulations, investigation into human rights violation, said the Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation, Vayalar Ravi after announcing the venue of the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on here on Friday.

Marine mammals form a fascinating group of animals including whales, dolphins, seals and the dugong, also known as the sea cow. Being mammals, they are more closely related to elephants, leopards, bats and hares than they are to sharks and other fish. There are some 120 species of marine mammal to be found in the world, and a fourth of these may be found in India and adjacent countries.Dugongs are one of the ancient living creatures underwater and are most interesting aquatic mammals.

New Delhi: Geodynamic ally active and ecologically sensitive Himalaya; apart from having the inherent environmental problems of natural occurrence such as, earthquakes, landslides, soil erosion and flash floods; is confronted with a range of other problems of anthropogenic origin.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Fresh revelations in the palmolein and ice cream parlour cases have sent the already besieged the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government in Kerala into a political tizzy.

It is said that when in danger people lose their mental balance. Cornered over a series of massive corruption charges followed by an Anna onslaught, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in Delhi seems to have reached its wits’ end. It is using police power to suppress public dissent, abusing anti-corruption crusaders and making irrelevant statements to confuse the public.

New York: Europe will retain its status as a polio-free region after Member States took satisfactory steps to combat an imported outbreak of the debilitating and sometimes fatal disease last year, in what the United Nations health agency hailed as “tremendous news.”