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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicAjay Banga

Topic: Ajay Banga

World Bank’s Ajay Banga says ‘India’s growth rate is shiniest part in global economy’

World Bank Managing Director for Operations Anna Bjerde said the bank is supporting the government turning the growth into jobs and also sustainable development.

World Bank to pause loan repayments for nations crippled by disasters, reports Financial Times

World Bank President Ajay Banga will unveil measures, including the pause on repayments and embedding catastrophe insurance into new loans in a speech in Paris on Thursday.

Ajay Banga to Indira Nooyi, sibling CEOs are a thing. They all cracked IIT, IIM

India’s sibling CEOs have some commonalities but at other times they’re like chalk and cheese.

Army kid to Mastercard CEO who pushed for gender parity — Ajay Banga, US’s World Bank head nominee

Banga is the first India-born nominee for the post and, if selected, will be the first India-born person to hold the office. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2016.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.