BIZ BUZZ | SBI?s loan scheme for pensioners

STATE BANK of India (SBI) has announced to increase the loan amount and decrease the interest rate from 10.25 per cent to 9.25 per cent for pensioners on the occasion of Makar Sankranti till January 31.

STATE BANK of India (SBI) has announced to increase the loan amount and decrease the interest rate from 10.25 per cent to 9.25 per cent for pensioners on the occasion of Makar Sankranti till January 31. Bank’s assistant general manager Rajeev Sharma said that the pensioners of State government, Central government and those in Railways and Defence could avail this facility.

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SBI’s marketing manager Suresh Shukla said that loans would be sanctioned for a term of five years to pensioners up to 70 years of age while pensioners of the age 72 years would be given a maximum loan of Rs 1 lakh or equivalent to the amount of their pension for 12 months for the period of four years.

Chintan Bakliwal’s album released

AUDIOCASSETTES OF the album Chintan, the seven shades sung by City-based singer Chintan Bakliwal and recorded by Venus and Tapes was released by Tejaswini Kolhapure at a programme organised at Jaipur recently. Renowned playback singer Asha Bhosle, Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Kundu Yogesh Mishra have also sung for the album. Javed Akhtar has composed the songs for the album.

Ismail Darbar has directed the video of the album while Tanushri Dutta, Riya Sen, Abhijit Sen, Rahul Acharya and many others have enacted in its video album. Many Bollywood actors like Govinda, John Abraham, Imran Hashmi and Bipasha Basu were also present.