We asked colleagues, present and past, to reflect on a man who has made such a difference to their lives and careers. Here it is then, a rich collection of memories that offer enchanting glimpses of the enigmatic Ajit Balakrishnan.
All six members of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) monetary policy committee (MPC) expressed caution over food inflation during the December review, while two external members warned about high real interest rates as headline inflation approaches its target of 4 per cent. The central bank continued to maintain the status quo on both the repo rate and the stance in the December monetary policy. India's retail inflation in November rose to 5.5 per cent - its fastest pace in three months - due to higher food prices.
Battling a sharp surge in inflation, the Reserve Bank is all for a smooth monetary policy response and the desire to have smaller hikes led it to tighten the policy in an off-schedule meet, a source said on Thursday. Inflation has been massively impacted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and will in due course also reflect the dent caused by Indonesia banning palm oil exports, the source aware of central bank thinking said, indicating that there was no other option but to respond. "The idea is to have a smooth policy response, not to put in large cold turkey responses," the source said, making it clear that the preference is for smaller magnitude responses and not larger ones.
Pleo contains more than 150 gears to help it move in a more natural fashion. It can yawn, sigh, sniff, sniffle, snore, cough, hiccup and even sneeze.
The next year is expected to see more exciting gadgets enter the global market.
The latest claim to come from the trove of secret documents revealed by Edward Snowden has reportedly pointed out that the US intelligence agency allegedly used 'leaky' mobile apps to carve out user data for surveillance.
For the two month project, 12 men and 12 women will spend their days and nights in beds angled downward by six degrees, propped up with their feet at an incline above their heads.
CNET senior editor Natali Del Conte has come up with some of the pros and cons of the Apple iPad.
BBM was recently made available to third-party devices and raked in 10 million downloads within the first 24 hours
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has snapped a series of images during its flyby on September 17 of Vikram's attempted landing sight near the Moon's uncharted south pole.
Singularity University will train its students to take on and make progress in understanding and applying fast moving technologies to solve the world's 'grandest challenges,' including hunger, global warming, alternative energy, telemedicine and more.
Domestic tyre demand is seen to grow by 7-9 per cent over the next five years.
These upcoming phones might have the coolest tech of 2018.
Security experts have discovered a malicious programe aimed at tricking users into clicking on phony search results on fake Google, Yahoo and MSN sites, a media report said on Saturday.
International Business Machines has created a $25 million fund to train its employees and business partners as part of the company's effort to make US technology industry more competitive globally, a media report said on Tuesday.
About half the jobs that are being outsourced by Silicon Valley companies are going to India, according to a survey released in the US.
After a promising start in the Senate, a plan to nearly double the quota for H-1B visas for foreign workers has run into trouble in the United States Congress.
India has been named as the top country for delivery of offshore Business Process Outsourcing services among large companies.
The world's No 2 venture capitalist says he supports outsourcing and urges India to use WTO rules to protect it from protectionist attacks in the US
The new app sends a text message to your boss letting them know that you are quitting, eliminating the need for 'awkward parting words'.
Apple has done everything engineeringly possible to minimize the downsides of having a big phone.
The company plans to add more features to its gadget, will expand its workforce and raise $10 million in venture capital fund.
Users of Facebook were inundated with messages on their news feeds reposted by friends that warn if they don't act fast, Facebook will be allowed to infringe on their privacy.
Loading an app required the watch to pull tremendous amounts of data from iPhones.
Samsung's flagships never skimp on top-end hardware and this S6 no different.
Price, specifications, features and all that you need to know about Apple's hot new 10th anniversary phone.
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