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RBI appoints Aviral Jain as new Executive DirectorThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Aviral Jain as the new Executive Director, effective from October 1, 2024. Additionally, the ...
RBI MPC gets 3 new external membersThe government has reconstituted the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee by appointing economists Ram Singh, Saugata Bhattacharya, and...
Expect new MPC members to be in place in time: Shaktikanta DasReserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das anticipates the timely appointment of new external members to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) bef...
RBI’s rate dissenter says officials too focused on inflationJayanth Varma, the dissenting member of the Reserve Bank of India's policy committee, argued that high interest rates impede investments an...
RBI's rate-setting panel member cautions against frequent tweaks in policyShashanka Bhide, an external member of the monetary policy panel, has said that India’s central bank should not rush to ease rates until it...
Prices unacceptably, uncomfortably high, MPC noted while raising rateExternal MPC member Jayanth R Varma dissented on the resolution that said the panel would remain focused on withdrawal of accommodation whi...
MPC acted to rein in inflation with focus on growthAs per the minutes, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said while high inflation continues to be the major concern, revival of economic activity ...
MPC raised rates to prevent inflation from corroding Economic Recovery: MinutesThe Reserve Bank raised the benchmark policy repo rate, the rate at which it lends to banks by 50 basis points to 4.9 percent in its June p...
Easy money policy could end from February, show MPC minutes"Members acknowledged that core inflation remains elevated and sticky. In this milieu, we need to be eagle-eyed for the pass-through of pro...
MPC is debating policy normlisation, latest minutes indicateThe MPC kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 4.0 per cent. The reverse repo rate too was maintained at 3.35 per cent.
The blunt - and subtle - messages from the MPCFor much of its relatively short history, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has been placid. That seemed to have changed this month.
Days of record low rates numbered, but RBI's liftoff still sometime awayDas’ and the current MPC’s tenure has been bogged down by one crisis after another. In February 2019, when Das took over the reins, India w...
MPC: Need both monetary and fiscal steps for recovery“Active and timely supply-side policy measures with regard to petrol and diesel, edible oil and pulses, among others, would be critical to ...
Loan growth continues to remain tepid: RBI dataEven as central bank has lowered key policy repo rates by 140 bps (basis points, one bps is 0.01 %)), these rates have transmitted only on ...
Govt appoints Shashank Bhide, Ashima Goyal and Jayant Verma as new MPC membersShashank Bhide is currently a senior advisor at the New Delhi-based think tank National Council for Applied Economic Research, while Goyal ...
Budget 2013: Government’s strained finances will be one of biggest problemsIndia’s fiscal responsibility law will turn 10 this year. It’s been a period of missed deadlines with a dash of creative accounting thrown ...
Sharp contrasts in economic data confuse India Inc tooSharp contrasts in economic data are not only confusing policymakers , but also businesses, which are increasingly relying on in-house data...
- 'Growth rate for first half of FY11 will be better than H2’
The growth number for the first half of FY11 will be better than the second half as it will be calculated on last year’s low base, but the ...
- We are happy with the Budget, say 50% people
Despite the economic slowdown and concerns over price rise, almost half the nation is happy with the budget, says the ET-Hansa Research Pos...
- Inflation hits 16-month low of 3.79%
Inflation touched a 16-month low of 3.79% for the week ended August 25, way below the central bank’s projection of around 5% for the curren...