Urjit Patel's reappointment will raise market hopes that Rajan, will also be offered an extension when his tenure ends in September.
With no payments coming in, HAL for the first time ever taken a bank loan of Rs 7.81 billion.
Farm loan waivers should not be regarded as expenditure but as incentive and investment, argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
The Modi PMO is like none other: It is staffed by people who are so low profile that the only dominant personality is the Prime Minister's.
Bombay or Mumbai? Was a senior minister miffed by a breach of protocol? Why did the police commissioner not find a place on the dais? Vignettes from 'Make in Mumbai.'
'If you want to live a happy life, you have to help the downtrodden. You have to understand that you have been given a position which is a confluence of your own capability and the grace of God. You must use that position to exemplify to others what has to be followed.'
What was the RBI doing, what was the PNB top management doing, what were the auditors doing, asks Debashis Basu.
Sharp fall in capital goods production and manufacturing activity also dented sentiments.
Thirty one outstanding teachers were invited to Rashtrapati Bhavan for a first-ever in-residence programme.
'It is unrealistic to expect that security dilemmas and strategic distrust to disappear or even diminish any time soon,' says Rup Narayan Das.
The party's research department is quietly collecting data, facts and figures to puncture the Modi government's claims on the note ban, the goods and services tax, and the economic growth.
'Trump's desecration of all that Obama represented can be seen at different levels: Personal, political, systemic and structural,' explains Ambassador B S Prakash.
Dr Singh said he was upset but expressed confidence that truth will prevail in a fair trial.
Fifty per cent of bank restructured assets were in infrastructure, steel, power and telecom sectors.
A group of high-powered individuals led by Anand Mahindra have come together to set up Krea university. The campus is expected to be ready by 2019 and the first batch of 100 to 125 students will commence classes in August next year.
While India has to curtail its side, those who do business in India have to be more conscious that they should be less part of the problems and more part of the solution, the business magnate said.
'No finance minister has the capacity to put the economy in an ICCU just like no finance minister has the capacity to take it for 10% growth!'
India's new policy commission has received a makeover and a dream team has been formed to head the Think Tank, NITI Aayog.
With the images of Rajendra Babu, Radhakrishnan, K R Narayanan, V V Giri and Kalam in my mind, the image of my beloved hero dancing ungainly to 'Merey angney main tumharra kya kaam hai', doesn't make a smooth transition, says Sudhir Bisht.
Recent rates cuts by most banks may not have a significant impact on margins, say analysts.
Aadhaar-related schemes and the Aadhaar Act exist on the assumption that Right to Privacy is not a Fundamental Right.
M Muneer recommends segmenting the population on the basis of their propensity to embrace new technologies is the key to driving digitisation.
'Younger people are taking steps to prevent lifestyle diseases.'
'It is fascinating to partner with consumers on the journey of self-discovery and to help shape people's preferences -- that is what I find most exciting,' Nandini Piramal tells Abhineet Kumar and Aneesh Phadnis.
To cut interest rates, the central bank head has to open up a debate on inflation target revision.
Chidambaram has been magnanimous in endorsing my book, says the former RBI Governor D Subbarao.
One does not need to be extraordinary to be a hero. Sometimes, cutting your hair can be enough.
'It is like bombing a building with 200 people to kill 5 terrorists.'
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first trip to New York as leader of the world's most populous democracy, will draw perhaps the largest crowd ever by a foreign leader on US soil when he takes the stage on Sunday in Madison Square Garden before a crowd forecast to total more than 18,000 people.
Meet the US Attorney who took on Donald Trump.
Issuance of new bank licences proves that the apex bank wants the financial sector to flourish.
Unless the judges factor in the ungovernability of technologies and their beneficial owners, present and future Presidents, prime ministers, judges, legislators and officials handling sensitive assignments may become redundant with reference to their age-old roles for securing 'national resources and assets', warns Dr Gopal Krishna.
Markets have witnessed a gap down opening mirroring losses in the global equities with US markets taking a hit on worries about the health of Chinese economy.
'We feel there is definitely something murky in the system.' 'Will anyone believe that Nirav Modi will go to a branch and bribe a low-level officer?' 'Just look at the people with whom he had moved around.'
The second fortnight of September saw Rs 3 lakh crore of time deposits, something unique, followed by liquidation of Rs 1.2 lakh crpre of these right after.
Global disinflation has finally caught up with India's high-cost economy.
BSE Mid-cap and BSE Small-cap lost 2.5% and 3.1% after oil prices soared
India's good fortune, experts in the US feel, is not the result of a fundamentally strong economy, but because it is the best of a bad set of options.
Vir Das' commencement address to graduates of Knox College is the best advice you'll read today.
'I want to leave behind the bank stronger and better than when I took over.'
'We have about Rs 4 lakh crore debt on a state budget of about Rs 1.5 lakh crore.' 'We are in a debt two-and-a-half times our annual budget,' says the banker who would have been Tamil Nadu's finance minister had the DMK won.
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