At a recent White House meeting, Paul Volcker, the 81-year-old former chairman of the Fed and a part-time adviser to Barack Obama, said the president should delay revamping the US regulatory system until he had quelled the financial crisis.
Mathrani arrived in New Delhi late Saturday night from Vienna.
'She is tough. She can be stern. She can be unpleasant. Rajiv was none of these things.' 'The Congress cannot survive without the Gandhi family. If Sonia were to quit, their Lok Sabha seats would drop from 44 to four.' K Natwar Singh shares his bitterness about the Nehru family with Rashme Sehgal.
PM meets senior leaders over Natwar issue
The Delhi high court Tuesday upheld an order of the Enforcement Directorate impounding the passports of former external affairs minister Natwar Singh's son Jagat Singh, his business associate Andaleeb Sehgal and three others.
In the new decade, the scene will change because the banks till recently had been challenged by the fintechs, but the techfins have now entered the arena, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
He said the US signed the nuclear agreement with India on July 18, 2005 after which it made certain fundamental changes, which were not in the larger interest of the country.
The BJP has questioned why the party is exonerated when one of its leaders has been indicted.
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Jagat Singh had on Saturday said that Sehgal was his acquaintance but had nothing to do with his business dealings.
The BJP has identified about 40 issues and decided to reserve certain days to raise major issues.
India should not be dictated by any country on its nuclear policy, Advani, who was in Hyderabad as part of his Bharat Suraksha Yatra, said.
An FIR can be lodged in any state where the leaders having grievance were located or even they can inform the Centre about it, he said.
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The PM asserted that no one who was guilty will go unpunished.
The delegation included former Maharashtra chief minister A R Antulay.\n\n
Under-Secretary-General and head of the Office for Internal Oversight Services Dileep Nair is accused of misusing funds from the UN oil for food program for Iraq.
Naidu said RSS was a committed, disciplined and dedicated organisation and BJP could not afford to lose its connection with it.
IT units in West Bengal have been promised protection during strikes.
Sehgal has denied links with Jagat Singh and the Congress party.
The party also announced countrywide protests to press the demand.
The allegations had been made by Natwar after his indictment by the Pathak panel.
"Now the question is why the Indian government decided to act on a report, which was completely trashed in other parts of the world. This I would reveal in my new book, which I am going to write soon," he said.
He said there was 'virtually no balance of power in decision-making'.
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