Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
Rajan's total 'monthly emoluments' stands at Rs 198,700
The three years at the Reserve Bank have mostly been a string of success stories for Rajan, gaining him common man's adulation even as the free-thinker in him made a few foes who matter more in the corridors of power
Rajan said that while there were talks about Jan Dhan, it was difficult to target transfers to people through this tool. Jan Dhan, he said, does not really work as advertised.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her second Budget a little more than a month from now. Like any other FM, Sitharaman will depend on her team of bureaucrats and advisors to frame and present the Budget.
The speed at which he led the central bank in different areas -- ranging from internal reorganisation to inflation fighting, stabilising the currency, taking on rogue corporations, cleaning up bank balance sheets, and opening the sector -- makes one believe that Rajan knew he had only three years to do his job. A fascinating excerpt from Tamal Bandyopadhyay's MUST-READ Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking.
'My immediate objective is to start thinking about research once again. Start understanding the world we are in which has changed quite a bit.'
Google has acquired Flutter, a San Francisco-based company founded by two persons of Indian origin - Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan plans to write on 'academic issues' after leaving the Reserve Bank.
Raghuram Rajan joked he wasn't expecting to win any votes or Facebook 'likes' in the position.
Medha is an organisation created with the idea of bringing in better employment opportunities and life for educated youth.
15 per cent of startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indians.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Viral Acharya is the eighth economist to quit since the Modi government took office.
ISB professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com that Modi government's continuation of tax terrorism is driving away investors.
'India's biggest loss is that we will not have anyone as principled and as courageous as Rajan.'
In an interview with Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com, he talks about the economic policies of the Narendra Modi government and whether achche din is really coming.
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