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Chakraborty, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, retired as Secretary of Department of Economic Affairs in April 2020

This is not for the first time that the customers of the bank have faced service outage.

Geographically speaking, the bank is present in 630 districts, of these, 560 districts have MSMEs.

About 10 lakh bank employees and officers are to participate in the strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions, an umbrella body of nine associations and groups.

In the fortnight ended February 28, 2020, bank credit stood at Rs 101.05 lakh crore and deposits at Rs 133.26 lakh crore, released by RBI showed.

The very purpose of nationalisation in India — serving the unbanked and under-banked — is yet to be achieved and financial inclusion cannot afford the luxury of complete privatisation

RIL added Rs 60,034.51 crore to take its valuation to Rs 13,81,078.86 crore

After resumption of trade at 3.45 pm, NSE Nifty zoomed 274.20 points or 1.86 per cent to end at 14,982.

A spurt in COVID-19 cases and lack of fresh buying triggers continued to weigh on sentiment, traders said.

This year, the bank will focus on startups creating social impact at scale in sectors such as Education - technology (ed-tech) and skill development, among others.

The development follows recent outage in the bank's internet banking and payment system on November 21, 2020 due to a power failure in the primary data centre.  

The 30-share BSE index ended 535.57 points or 1.13 per cent lower at 46,874.36.

Actor Surbhi Puranik was present at the launch of the latest phone from the company

On the NSE, the stock closed the counter at Rs 1,444.35, down 2.06 per cent.

These strategic tie-ups aim to enhance value offerings for customers of both new as well as pre-owned vehicles throughout the customer lifecycle.

ONGC was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding around 5 per cent, followed by Sun Pharma, PowerGrid, Bajaj Finance, IndusInd Bank, Dr Reddy's and Maruti.

At the standalone level, net profit for the three-month period grew 18.09 per cent to Rs 8,758.29 crore, on the back of a 15.1 per cent growth in the core net interest income at Rs 16,317 crore.

After touching an all-time high of 49,569.14 during the day, the 30-share BSE index ended 247.79 points or 0.50 per cent higher at 49,517.11.

However, observers cited that even volatility on account of profit booking will likely trigger in bottom fishing, thereby reigniting the up move.

After opening strong, the stock indices gave up gains due to profit booking by investors.