According to Subbarao, the pressure on the currency was inevitable.
Many exit polls have kept the incumbent Bharatiya Janata party ahead of the Congress in what was a straight contest between two main parties. Assembly polls were held in the state in a single phase on November 17.
'Raghuram Rajan's contribution to the country's economy is "exemplary" and he would always be remembered for his outstanding work.'
Former Banque de France head Jacques de Larosire was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for his lengthy struggle for monetary order, the magazine said in a statement on Monday.
The government's critics say that the Prime Minister failed to rein in vicious and unprecedented personal attacks on the central bank chief by the likes of Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy.
In his address at a conference of state secretaries, Rajan stressed the need to strengthen state-level coordination committees by ensuring participation, conducting meetings more frequently and sharing quality information among all stakeholders, including state government agencies.
"The court has framed charges under MCOCA against Rajan and he has pleaded innocence," said a Central Bureau of Investigation official.
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Illicit liquor, narcotic drugs, cash, precious metals, gold, silver, jewellery and other materials worth about Rs 339.95 crore have been seized by the joint team of Flying Surveillance Team (FST), Static Surveillance Team (SST) and police, he said.
The framing of charges against Rajan paves the way for the trial, five years after the veteran investigative journalist was shot dead in suburban Powai in 2011.
The Tamil Nadu government will constitute an 'economic advisory council' to the chief minister comprising Nobel laureates, former Reserve Bank of India governor and other economic experts from around the globe to advise the state on how to reverse the economic slowdown.
Traditionally, Prime Minister picks the RBI Governor after consultation with the finance minister.
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today criticised multilateral institutions like the IMF and the World Bank saying "they are not immune to cognitive capture".
The RBI targets inflation at 6 percent by January 2016 and 4 percent for 2017/18.
A top Finance Ministry source, however, said no discussion has taken place in the government so far on whether to extend Rajan's tenure or not.
Indian startups are expected to raise $8-12 billion this year, a top official of venture capital firm Peak XV said on Monday, highlighting that the country's startup ecosystem is the most vibrant in the world. Speaking at StartUp Mahakumbh, Peak XV managing director Rajan Anandan said around $20 billion of private capital is lying uninvested and is committed for investment in private firms and startups in India.
The academic prize is sponsored by the Deutsche Bank Donation Fund and carries an endowment of euro 50,000.
The first signs of growing bonhomie between Modi and Rajan came early last year, when Modi called Rajan the "best teacher" for explaining complex economic issues to him.
The government and the RBI are working together to tackle the country's economic problems but there is no "magic wand" to fix them, said Raghuram Rajan, who will take over as central bank governor next month.
Raghuram Rajan said the passage of the GST Bill augurs well for the growing political consensus for economic reforms.
Rajan's total 'monthly emoluments' stands at Rs 198,700
'Rajan brought in a healthy air of competition in the banking sector.'
'There will be no serious effect on Indian economy because one person, one man, however powerful, however influential, however great, cannot have an impact on an economy as big and complex as India.'
Additional Chief Secretary K P Bakshi told reporters at a hurriedly-called press conference that all the cases against 55-year old Rajan, who has been deported from Indonesia, are being transferred to CBI because of its expertise in "handling transnational crimes".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended Mr Rajan, but it would be debated why he took so long to dub criticisms like those against the RBI governor as improper.
This will also help test the effectiveness of preventing the entry of Nipah in target cells.
The court will on Tuesday hear arguments on the quantum of sentence to be awarded to the convicts.
The 55-year-old gangster was taken straight to the CBI headquarters where he was quizzed on Dawood Ibrahim, India's most-wanted terrorist.
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, who faced a stinging attack from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for presiding over the "worst phase" of the Indian banking sector, on Thursday reminded her that two-third of his tenure as the head of the central bank was under the Bharatiya Janata Party government.
'Rajan's exit will have a great impact on the economy.'
Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was on Monday critical of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's description of Indian economy as the "one-eyed king in the land of the blind", saying better words should have been used.
Rajan is lodged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi. The other three persons, who were out on bail, were taken into custody on Monday after the verdict was announced.
Security has been stepped up in and around Jail no 2 of Tihar prison where underworld don Chhota Rajan was lodged on Thursday after being remanded in a 14-day judicial custody.
Rajan tells RBI colleagues he will be returning to academics
Gangster Chhota Rajan, prime accused in the journalist J Dey murder case, thought that the veteran crime reporter was working for his rival Dawood Ibrahim and Pakistan's spi agency Inter-Services Intelligence, according to the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court verdict convicting and sentencing him to life imprisonment in a 2006 fake encounter case.
The country has a long way to go before it claims to have arrived, he said.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said that consolidated fiscal deficit of the Centre and states rose to 7.2 per cent in 2015 from 7 per cent in the previous year.
He said the short term macroeconomic priorities of the RBI continue to focus on bringing down inflation towards the government-set target of 4 per cent
Rajan has shifted from the conventional ground floor room occupied by CEAs to a room on the first floor, adjacent to Chidambaram's office.
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