Banks offer overseas staff training for high insurance sales

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 14:14

As regulators prepare final norms to check mis-selling of third party financial products by bank employees, some banking majors are offering overseas training programmes for staff meeting high insurance sale targets.

PSU bank employees unions call off Sep 25 strike

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 15:46

Banks will function normally as a section of public sector bank employees who had threatened to go on strike Wednesday have deferred it following assurance from the government that there is no plan for merger of banks at present.

PSU banks to hire 50K employees this fiscal: FM

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 19:45

Finance Minister P Chidambaram Wednesday said public sector banks plan to hire 50,000 persons and open 10,000 branches in the current fiscal.

Four women bank employees killed in Coimbatore fire

Last Updated: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 13:04

A massive fire in a building in Tamil Nadu`s Coimbatore district claimed four lives.

Partial impact to strike call in Tamil Nadu

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 13:11

The strike call given by 11 trade unions country wide had partial impact in Tamil Nadu as a majority of shops remained open and transport services plied normally.

Govt makes fresh appeal to bank employees not to join strike

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 15:02

The government has again appealed to the bank employees not to join the two-day nationwide strike from Wednesday saying there is "really no reason" for them to go ahead with it.

Centre's economic policies will create unemployment: AIBEA

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 22:18

Criticising the Union government's policies of FDI and privatisation of banks, All India Bank Employees Association on Wednesday said these will create unemployment in the country.

Bank unions plan strike on August 22-23

Last Updated: Thursday, August 16, 2012, 18:56

A section of public sector bank employees plan to go on a two-day strike on August 22-23 to protest the proposed reforms in the banking sector and outsourcing of jobs.

Bank unions defer next week's strike call

Last Updated: Friday, July 20, 2012, 17:48

The All-India Bank Employees Association on Friday said it deferred the proposed national strike call on July 25-26 after a meeting with the management body IBA and the labour commissioner here.

Banking services hit as state-owned bank employees go on strike

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 14:35

Cash transaction and clearing services across the country were hit as most of the employees in public sector banks went on a day-long strike opposing government policies towards the sector.

Bankers nationwide strike disrupts normal banking operations

Last Updated: Friday, August 5, 2011, 08:34

Banking operations have been affected across the country Friday with employees of public sector and old private sector banks going on a day-long strike in protest banking sector reforms.