From July 1, banks will not accept cheques with alterations or corrections even if the customer appends a signature above them.

The Communist Party of India on Saturday alleged some UPA partners were plundering national wealth so much so that even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was finding it difficult to defend them.

Holding the “wrong” industrialisation and other policies of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government responsible for the defeat of Left Front in the recent West Bengal civic polls, CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Friday said they need to be reconsidered.

Corporate houses can now adopt graveyards and cremation grounds and earn blessings by ensuring that the last journey of departed souls is peaceful.
Private agencies and non-governmental organisations too can adopt and develop graveyards under the Fund Your City programme being taken out by the cash-starved Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Call him the BJP’s “10 per cent” man if you will. BJP president Nitin Gadkari feels his party can return to power at the Centre if it can bridge the 10 per cent gap in votes with the Congress.

Call him the BJP’s 10 per cent man if you will.

Making a partial climbdown, Congress MP Y.S.

Stating that the Andhra Pradesh state police have a bad human rights record, the German firm Heckler & Koch, which manufactures small arms and assault guns, has decided not to supply 9mm pistols and MP5 submachine guns to the state police.

Coming down heavily on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA government for bad governance and flawed economic policies, BJP national president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday demanded an immediate ban on forward and futures trading in essential commodities to check price rise.

GMR Group said three private equity investors have agreed to invest Rs 465 crore in its energy firm GMR Energy. The investment will be used for funding its expansion plans in the energy sector.