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Urjit Patel suceeds Raghuram Rajan as RBI governor
06 Sep 2016
Governor Urjit Patel has several publications in Indian macroeconomics, monetary policy, public finance, Indian financial sector, international trade, and regulatory economics
Urjit Patel suceeds Raghuram Rajan as RBI governor
06 Sep 2016
Governor Urjit Patel has several publications in Indian macroeconomics, monetary policy, public finance, Indian financial sector, international trade, and regulatory economics
Thousands mourn Islam Karimov as Uzbek strongman’s body laid to rest
03 Sep 2016
With no obvious successor, Karimov's death could trigger an upsurge in Islamist violence in Uzbekistan, posing a threat to the United States, which is trying to contain the insurgency in Afghanistan as also to Russia and China
Would have stayed longer, but agreement proved elusive: Rajan
02 Sep 2016
The former chief economist of the IMF said he wanted a second term at the central bank to complete his unfinished task "but just didn't reach an agreement" with the government on it
Would have stayed longer, but agreement proved elusive: Rajan
02 Sep 2016
The former chief economist of the IMF said he wanted a second term at the central bank to complete his unfinished task "but just didn't reach an agreement" with the government on it
Trump reiterates ultra-hard line on immigrants, Mexican wall
01 Sep 2016
Hopes that Republican candidate Donald Trump may be softening his line on immigrants and his proposed Mexican wall were belied on Wednesday night, when he sounded more hard-line than ever
Brazil's Rousseff voted out, Michel Temer sworn in as new President
01 Sep 2016
The Brazilian Senate voted 42-36 to allow Rousseff to retain the right to hold public office - a departure from the country's law that bars a dismissed president from holding any government job for eight years
Bangla SC upholds death for tycoon Mir Quasem Ali over war crimes
30 Aug 2016
Bangladeshi tycoon Mir Quasem Ali who was a chief financier for Bangladesh's largest Islamist party could be executed in days after losing his final appeal today against a death sentence for 1971 war crimes
Ratan Tata, Vijay Kelkar and Nandan Nilekani in microfinance alliance
29 Aug 2016
Avanti Finance, the joint venture, hopes to provide access to credit at an affordable cost, leveraging on Tata trusts’ legacy and reach
Laptop pioneer John Ellenby dies aged 75
29 Aug 2016
John Ellenby's compact computer Compass, the precursor of today's lightweight computing devices, arrived two years before Steve Jobs' Macintosh
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim gets a second term
26 Aug 2016
Kim's selection is in keeping with the tradition of an American being picked by the United States, the bank's largest contributor, as the World Bank president
ED summons Nalini Chidambaram in Saradha scam
25 Aug 2016
Nalini Chidambaram came under the ED’s scanner after Saradha chairman Sudipta Sen alleged he had paid her over Rs1 crore at the instance of Manoranjana Singh, the estranged wife of Congress leader Matang Singh, both in jail for their alleged involvement in the Saradha scam
Singapore's longest-serving president SR Nathan passes away
23 Aug 2016
`Every time there was a tricky task which required a steady hand, someone dependable and who could get things done, his name would pop up,’ Singapore’s founder-President Lee Kuan Yee said on SR Nathan’s 80th birthday
Urjit Patel appointed new RBI governor
20 Aug 2016
Urjit Patel as the first RBI governor to oversee interest rate decisions by a monetary policy committee (MPC), a six-member RBI-government joint panel, will, however, have less freedom in deciding monetary policy
Clinton leads Trump in 4 more key states: poll
13 Aug 2016
Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar in Forbes list of top 100 tech tycoons
11 Aug 2016
Wipro chairman Azim Premji and HCL co-founder Shiv Nadar are the only two billionaires from India to feature in the Forbes’ list of the world’s 100 richest leaders in technology
Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar in Forbes list of top 100 tech tycoons
11 Aug 2016
Wipro chairman Azim Premji and HCL co-founder Shiv Nadar are the only two billionaires from India to feature in the Forbes’ list of the world’s 100 richest leaders in technology