Bend it like SBI

With the dialogue between the striking employees of SBI and the management remaining inconclusive, the government has called the two parties for talks later today.

"The Government has called both the Union and management of SBI for talks in Delhi later today," Finance Minister P Chidambaram told reporters here.

Senior Finance Ministry officials will take part in the talks and the government will give the most "sympathetic" hearing to both parties the said.

He however, said the the "government has a duty to uphold the larger interest of SBI and the public, who are the real owners of SBI."