SBI to expand branch network in Bengal Circle

August 6th, 2009 Tree branch kills Pa. woman days after NY accidentPHILADELPHIA — A woman jogging in a Philadelphia park has been killed by a falling tree branch just days after a similar incident in New York's Central Park left a man comatose.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Tuesday said it will expand its cable network to Bhutan to help the IT and IT-enabled services sector of that country. The telecom major has signed an agreement with the Bhutan government in this regard, the company said in a statement.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bank of China will extend a loan of $70 million to Sistema Shyam TeleServices, the telecom joint venture between Sistema of Russia and Shyam group of India, to strengthen its wireless infrastructure. The loan is for eight years with three years of moratorium on principal repayment and will help Sistema Shyam expand its geographical reach and seamlessly serve the growing subscriber-base, the company said in a statement.

July 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Budhadeb Bhattacharjee announced today in the West Bengal state assembly that his government would see to it that the Unlawful Activity Prevention Act (UAPA) is not be misused. Replying to a question Bhattacharjee said provisions in the Act were tough and those having links with Maoists or indulging in propaganda might be arrested.

June 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Low-cost carrier IndiGo will start operations in Uttar Pradesh July 5 with daily flights from Lucknow to Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Patna. "We have been eyeing Lucknow for a while," IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh said at a media briefing here.

June 5th, 2009 CHENNAI - The promoters of private life insurer Bharti Axa Life Insurance will infuse Rs.100 crore in the next quarter to strengthen the company's branches and expand business so that it can break even by 2012-13, a top official said here Friday. Bharti group and French group Axa are the promoters of the Rs.360-crore company.

April 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - JSW Steel, one of the leading steel makers in the country, will invest Rs.3,000 crore in 2009-10 to expand its production capacity, a top official said here Wednesday. 'We are planning to invest Rs.3,000 crore in the current financial year to expand our production capacity,' Sajjan Jindal, vice-chairman and managing director of JSW Steel, told reporters on the sidelines of a business meet.

April 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tarak Mistry, a promising Bengal under-19 cricketer, died of tuberculosis at a city nursing home Tuesday. Mistry, 18, a talented right-arm fast bowler who turned out for Bengal last season, was ailing for a week, nursing home sources said.

March 13th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Telecom operator Aircel Thursday announced it will invest $5 billion over the next three to five years to expand its operations across the country. Aircel, part of Malaysia-based Maxis Communications Bhd, will invest $1 billion this calendar year, and expects to nearly double the existing subscriber base of 17 million.

February 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - Direct tax collection in Bengal circle has increased 23.8 percent to Rs.103.16 billion (Rs.10,316 crore) during the first 10 months of 2008-09, a top tax official said Tuesday. 'Of this, corporate tax was Rs.70.22 billion, while personal income tax collection stood at Rs.29.54 billion,' Chief Income Tax Commissioner T.K.

January 30th, 2009 RANCHI - While assuring the Jharkhand government of all possible help in tackling the Maoist problem, union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Saturday that there was need to 'fill the vacancies' in the special branch of the state's police force.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday inaugurated an anti-corruption branch at Port Blair to speed up crime investigation in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Earlier, a CBI unit at Port Blair with territorial jurisdiction over the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands was functioning under the supervision of a superintendent of police of the anti-corruption branch at Kolkata.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's GSM mobile phone operators maintained their fast paced network expansion, adding 8.12 million new subscribers in December, a statement issued here said Monday. The total base of GSM subscribers has now crossed the 250 million-mark and stands at 257.85 million as on Dec 31, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a statement.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unitech Wireless, the telecom arm of real estate major Unitech Ltd., Monday said it has received 4.4 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum in the 1,800 MHz GSM band in the West Bengal telecom circle. With this, the company has been allotted initial spectrum in 21 service areas of India out of 22, a company statement said.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A delegation of West Bengal legislators from various political parties Friday submitted a memorandum to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), demanding re-investigation into the Rizwan-ur Rehman death case. The delegation met the inspector general of police (IGP) heading the CBI's Kolkata zone and submitted the memorandum, signed by about 50 legislators.