Udupi: Banking services hit as employees go on strike
Mangaluru/Udupi, Oct 22: Banking services in Dakshina Kannada district were hit as a majority of employees went on strike on Tuesday as part of the nationwide stir called by various employees unions to protest mergers of banks.
Most of the employees in banks abstained from work causing difficulty to customers who were caught unaware by the one-day strike by employees.
A protest was held by All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) and Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI) in neighbouring Udupi district against the Union governments move at Corporation Bank zonal office in Udupi.
Addressing protesters, Syndicate Bank employees union state joint secretary Premanath Poojary claimed around 50,000 employees have lost jobs since the merger of SBI with its satellite banks and 6,950 SBI banks were closed.
The Centre should rethink on their decision and take steps to recover corporate loans to tide over economic crisis, he said.
The protests against bank mergers began on September 26 in Udupi and later in Mangaluru on October 18, where employees, central trade unions and members of the public had taken part.
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Pelé's 1966 World Cup jacket draws new fans after Bad Bunny wears it at concerts
Sao Paulo (AP): A jacket worn by football legend Pelé in the 1966 World Cup has become a hit among fans of pop singer Bad Bunny since he borrowed it from a collector's sports merchandise store and used it in his recent concerts in Sao Paulo, in his first performances on Brazilian soil.
Bad Bunny's tribute to the three-time World Cup winner, who died in 2022 at age 82, also included a change in the lyrics of the song MONACO, sung by the Puerto Rican artist as "scoring a goal after Pelé and Maradona" instead of "Messi and Maradona."
Cássio Brandão, the owner of the Alambrado Futebol e Cultura store, seeks historical soccer memorabilia and jerseys and has more than 7,000 of them. He owns 115 items that belonged to Pelé and was involved in Bad Bunny's choice for the jacket.
"He took very good care of the piece. It came back only with sweat, wet with sweat, but it was perfect, in the same condition. They were very careful. It returned in the same suitcase," Brandão said.
Pelé's official Instagram later thanked the singer for the tribute, adding that when someone like Bad Bunny honors “the King on Brazilian soil, it means the crown is still shining.”
“I think that today, when I see Bad Bunny doing this, it warms my heart to imagine that many kids across Brazil and around the world are going on YouTube trying to learn more about Pelé, watching his goals and better understanding the magnitude and greatness of this figure, who is the greatest football player in history and, to me, the greatest Brazilian who has ever lived,” Brandão said. AP
