New Delhi: Actor Tom Hanks, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 when he was in Australia last month, wrote a brief post about donating plasma and added a touch of his signature sense of humour to it. The 63-year-old actor shared a photo from his plasma donation session from last week and tweeted recently: "Such a bag!" Tom Hanks added that once the necessary document-related formalities are over, the rest is pretty simple. "Here's last week's bag of plasma. Such a bag! After the paperwork, it's as easy as taking a nap," Mr Hanks wrote in his post, tagging the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and also the doctor, who supervised his plasma donation. Earlier, it was reported that Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson were to donate plasma to UCLA for research. After their COVID-19 diagnosis, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson spent days under observation in Australia and finally returned to the US at the end of March. On March 29, the actor tweeted t...
The one-year MCLR will come down to 7.25 per cent, from the current 7.40 per cent with effect from May 10. State Bank of India's new key lending rates for home loans came into force on Sunday, May 10, bringing down the EMI burden for eligible borrowers. The country's largest lender by assets earlier this week announced a reduction of 15 basis points - or 0.15 percentage point - in its marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) across tenors. With the latest revision, the one-year MCLR came down to 7.25 per cent from the existing 7.40 per cent. That marked the 12th consecutive cut in the MCLR by the state-run lender. Starting Sunday, EMIs of eligible home loan accounts linked to the MCLR will come down by nearly Rs 255 for a 30-year loan of Rs 25 lakh, SBI said in a press release on Thursday. The bank also introduced a special deposits scheme for senior citizens, called SBI Wecare Deposit. Under this scheme, an additional premium of 30 bps, or 0.30 percentage poi...
