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Monday, September 22, 2025
TopicReserve Bank of India

Topic: Reserve Bank of India

RBI turns cautious amid inflation, keeps interest rate unchanged at 4%

RBI expects headline inflation to remain elevated in the second quarter of 2020-21. It also sees real GDP shrinking in the first half as well as the full year.

Allow us to restructure loans but no need for blanket recast, banks tell RBI

The Indian Banks’ Association has written to RBI, saying debt recast needs to be completed by September to prevent fresh bad loan creation.

RBI confirms Sashidhar Jagdishan as next CEO of HDFC Bank

Sashidhar Jagdishan, currently working as 'change agent' of the largest private sector lender and head of finance, has been with HDFC Bank since 1996.

A central bank should be allowed to say ‘no’, says former RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya

Viral Acharya, in an interview with ThePrint, says his and Urjit Patel’s dissent, resistance and exits from RBI limited the damage that could have been inflicted on financial stability.  

Need to revive demand, slash GST rates by 50% for all sectors, says Assocham chief

In an interview with ThePrint, Assocham president Niranjan Hiranandani says RBI should also look at a one-time loan restructuring to prevent a banking system collapse.

Shake-up coming soon for RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee which sets interest rates

The six-member MPC of RBI will have four new faces: terms of 3 independent people expire end of August and one internal member retired in June.

Any govt unlikely to pursue meaningful privatisation of banks — ex-RBI governor Urjit Patel

In his book released Friday, Patel also wrote that governments use state-owned banks to pump-prime the economy during slowdowns and are unlikely to let go of this instrument.

US-China conflict will impair trade for emerging markets like India, says Raghuram Rajan

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan also cautioned that corporations, households and governments will have enormous levels of debt as they move out of the pandemic.

Higher inflation doesn’t mean RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee should increase interest rates

With gradual resumption of supply chains, inflation may come down. Data has also been limited by the lockdown, so the MPC should wait before changing rates.

Govt keeping all options open to support economic recovery, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Speaking at a virtual session, Sitharaman also said the agricultural sector is driving the economic revival, and that all sectors in India are open to the private sector.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.