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06 Sep 2016

Governor Urjit Patel has several publications in Indian macroeconomics, monetary policy, public finance, Indian financial sector, international trade, and regulatory economics

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

03 Sep 2016

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

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

01 Sep 2016

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

30 Aug 2016

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

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

29 Aug 2016

John Ellenby's compact computer Compass, the precursor of today's lightweight computing devices, arrived two years before Steve Jobs' Macintosh

27 Aug 2016

27 Aug 2016

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

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

24 Aug 2016

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

22 Aug 2016

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

13 Aug 2016

11 Aug 2016

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

11 Aug 2016

11 Aug 2016

Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's opponents had no trouble attaining a simple majority of the 81 Senate votes to begin steps to end her scandal-plagued presidency

09 Aug 2016