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The current situation needs a human touch: Volunteers helping banks

Two to five volunteers, with the support of the bank employees, would offer guidance and help to customers

Pinarayi Vijayan leads protest against curbs on co-op banks

Kerala CM says state's co-operative sector holds deposits of Rs 1.27 lakh cr, primary co-op societies are stronger than urban ones

Hardcastle to double McCafe presence in next 12-18 months

The exclusive Arabica coffee the company offers is almost 10-15% lower in price than that of its competitors

Kerala CM, ministers to sit in Satyagraha at RBI regional office

The state government alleges that the RBI's restrictions on primary-coperative banks would put the State into trouble

Cooperative Bank employees planning to protest against RBI

Demonetisation will take a toll on the Public Distribution System, says P Balakrishnan, general secretary, All India cooperative bank employee's federation

Tamil Nadu in talks with Centre on ease of doing business index, says industry secretary

He says that weightage should have been given to other aspects such as feedback from the industry

TVS Emerald in talks to raise funds

In residential real estate space, company completed its first project and recently announced the second

Aban Offshore in discussion with lenders on repayment issues

The company has nine out of 18 rigs working while others are idle at the end of September

Apollo Hospitals Q2 net profit up 3% at Rs 92 crore

Navi Mumbai hospital to be commissioned on November 14

IOB Q2 net loss widens to Rs 765 cr

Gross NPA grew to 21.77% compared to 11% during same quarter of last financial year

I was victim in Tata Tele deal: Sivasankaran

He was responding to reports that he had reneged on buying a part of NTT Docomo's stake

GI Registry holds meeting to decide on GI tag for Basmati rice from Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh farmers and APEDA met the registry to put forward their arguments

Complete chaos: ATMs dry out, tollgates and train counters refuse to accept Rs 500 notes

Travellers suffered as their notes were turned down in railway counters and hotels

Pfizer wins patent rights for autoimmune diseases' drug

The patent office dismissed the objections of two opponents and granted two process patents for Pfizer's etanercept

GreenSignal Bio Pharma to open IPO to raise Rs 116 cr

IPO will be held from November 9-11 and the company will offer 1.46 crore equity shares

CloudCherry for customer expectations

Their client experience management platform aims to salvage reputation of companies, say T E Narasimhan & Gireesh Babu

The next phase is to prove we can be successful as a multiproduct company: Girish Mathrubootham

The company has raised a seventh round of funding, of $55 million led by Sequoia Capital India, says Freshdesk, founder and CEO

Now, we want to be successful as a multi-product company: Freshdesk CEO

Interview with Girish Mathrubootham

India is a favoured hub for upcoming start-ups

The average investment per round in a start-up is higher globally as compared to India

The importance of being Jayalalithaa

Tamil Nadu breathes a collective sigh of relief as its chief minister 'fully recovers' from her illness