FM Sitharaman meets heads of World Bank, IMF; discusses debt restructuringThe roundtable with World Bank President David Malpass and IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva held on the sidelines of the first G2...
25 Feb, 2023, 06.02 PM IST
View: At G20, India should shake IMF, World Bank et al out of their lethargy into financing green initiativesA key role in reforms of the international financial architecture and leveraging of climate finance will be the modernisation of the Bretto...
04 Dec, 2022, 11.00 PM IST
After help for Pakistan, speculation on China package for Sri LankaChina offered a $9 billion bailout package to Pakistan and pledged more support to the cash-strapped nation during the Pakistani prime mini...
11 Nov, 2022, 11.19 PM IST
Pandemic, supply disruptions pose risk to food security; urgent actions needed says World Bank led joint statementMany nations, including India, have put some sort of trade restrictions on some essential commodities keeping in mind their own domestic fo...
16 Jul, 2022, 09.46 AM IST
Sitharaman discusses post-pandemic economic recovery, other issues with World Bank chiefFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman discussed the post-pandemic economic recovery, India's major role in the global fight against COVID-19 ...
16 Oct, 2021, 12.17 PM IST
IMF, World Bank urged to ensure timely delivery of safe & effective COVID vaccines across countries"Timely delivery of safe and effective vaccines across all countries is critical to ending the pandemic, especially as new variants emerge....
10 Apr, 2021, 11.46 AM IST
FM urges World Bank Group to sustain crisis response to mitigate COVID-19 impactSpeaking at the 103rd Development Committee Plenary of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), finance minister Nirmala Sitha...
10 Apr, 2021, 12.02 AM IST
View: India needs to look within, to make do withoutThe headstart India had in the 1990s has been built upon by successive governments, and today India is no longer dependent on these interna...
16 Jun, 2020, 07.51 PM IST
G-20 summit could adopt joint action plan to fight Covid-19The leaders are expected to chalk out a joint action plan to handle the economic fallout of the pandemic. The idea of a virtual G-20 summit...
26 Mar, 2020, 10.03 AM IST
Urgent need to revise quota share in IMF: Arun JaitleyUnion Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also expressed hope that this can be done as part of the 15th General Review of Quotas (GRQ).
14 Oct, 2017, 10.57 PM IST
US firm admits to paying $1.1 milion bribe to NHAIThe bribes generally were 2-4% of the contract price and paid through fraudulent subcontractors, who provided no actual services.
11 Jul, 2017, 08.24 AM IST
Wockhardt Q2 slides 81.6% to Rs 17 croreNet profit was Rs 92.45 crore in July-September a year ago, Wockhardt said in a BSE filing.
10 Nov, 2016, 08.44 PM IST
Indian-American Sanjay Pradhan to lead Open Government Partnership at UN General AssemblySanjay Pradhan, an Indian-American World Bank official, has been tapped to lead an international initiative to promote government transpare...
18 Dec, 2015, 11.21 AM IST
Indian-origin official Sanjay Pradhan to lead multination initiative"My long-standing passion for how open government can transform the lives of millions around the globe has led me directly to OGP," said Pr...
17 Dec, 2015, 11.58 PM IST
World Bank backtracks on China criticismWB President Jim Yong Kim also played down any rivalry between the World Bank and China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in which I...
17 Jul, 2015, 05.29 PM IST
World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim hails Narendra Modi, says world needs 'more leaders like you'World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on completion of one year of "visionary steps towards endi...
27 May, 2015, 10.46 PM IST
World Bank hands out $1.4 mn grants in NE India through Development MarketplaceTwelve innovative social enterprises were awarded grants by the India Development Marketplace (DM) funded by the World Bank Group (WBG).
19 Jun, 2014, 03.27 PM IST