-PTI New Delhi: The RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding the removal of Nachiket Mor from the Reserve Bank board on the ground of conflict of interest. "There is no case for retaining Nachiket Mor on the board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It is a fit case of conflict of interest, as his principal employer BMGF (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) receives foreign...
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Can banking recover? -Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu We need stricter adherence to sound banking rules and more transparency from public and private players The bank frauds involving Punjab National Bank (PNB) and the companies associated with businessmen Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi as well as the Rotomac case couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Indian banking system is already reeling under the pressure of growing NPAs, or non-performing assets (less politely known as loans that...
More »Don't believe the BJP and Congress claims that they're cleaning up poll funding -Milan Vaishnav
-ThePrint.in The larger lesson is clear: in an era when the Congress & the BJP can agree on next to nothing, they will gladly join hands to save their own skin. Among all the talk of the aam aadmi focus emerging from last week’s Budget, many people may have missed one of its most self-serving acts. This manoeuvre found no mention in the Union Finance Minister’s presentation itself, but was instead buried...
More »Top analysts shoot five big holes in Jaitley's Budget -Amit Mudgill
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Investors may be losing sleep over the re-entry of long-term capital gains tax on equities, but analysts feel that the worrylines are actually running deeper than you realise. The mega ambitious healthcare scheme announced in the Union Budget on Thursday is one such point of concern -- which aims to benefit 10 crore poor families for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation. Sceptics are having a field day,...
More »Pranab Bardhan, professor of graduate school in the department of economics at the University of California (Berkeley), interviewed by Devadeep Purohit (The Telegraph)
-The Telegraph The Left in Bengal had often criticised him whenever he red-flagged excessive local tyranny, and spoke about the industrial decline in Bengal. The incumbent ruling party may make tall claims about changes in Bengal since the Trinamul government came to power but he has been candid enough to suggest that he hasn't seen much change either in industrial expansion or in investment in infrastructure. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has...
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