What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister and finance minister, he understood the importance of gradualism, except when the economy or the polity was in a crisis.
President Ram Nath Kovind presented Padma awards to 73 individuals, some posthumously, at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday.
The agreement is subject to approval by the IMF management and consideration by its executive board, which is expected in early April.
The turmoil, if you read the headlines, is about the so-called funding winter. Deep down, though, the question is one of the common direction in which founders and investors need to pull, points out Suveen Sinha.
The possibility of the use of weaponised drones for terrorist activities against strategic and commercial assets calls for serious attention by the global community, India has told the United Nations General Assembly, a day after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the Indian Air Force (IAF) station at Jammu airport.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday said the government will decide on extension of his tenure.
The minister said the terrorist groups created by Pakistan is not only harming India, but also hurting its neighbours.
In advanced economies where the financial system is more matured, the form of shadow banking is more of risk transformation through securitisation.
He was number three in 1999 when the company was founded.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
'We are completely engaged in fighting poverty; alas, our neighbour Pakistan seems only engaged in fighting us.'
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