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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicViral Acharya

Topic: Viral Acharya

Are Adani, Ambani & other biggies behind inflation across sectors? Metal segment shows this isn’t the case

A paper by ex RBI official says dominance of 'Top-5' firms lets them excessively raise prices, but analysis of metal sector shows it's down to raw material costs, global inflation, etc.

Rajan, Acharya right to oppose corporates into banking. RBI’s poor regulation makes move risky

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Rajan, Acharya hit out at idea of corporates in banking, say borrowers shouldn’t own banks

In a paper, Raghuram Rajan & Viral Acharya have termed the recent recommendation of an RBI internal working group on allowing corporates into banking a ‘bombshell’. 

Modi govt’s reform of public banks a still-born effort, say Raghuram Rajan & Viral Acharya

Loan losses from the pandemic may be too huge for the government to pay, says a new paper authored by the former RBI governor and former RBI deputy governor.

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.  

Ex RBI Viral Acharya: Govt pressure on central banks can lead to kiss of death from markets

In his book, Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India, the ex RBI deputy governor lists the ongoing challenges to RBI’s independence and how markets can ensure it.

Viral Acharya leaves RBI as his calls to protect its surplus reserves go unheeded

Deputy Governor Viral Acharya leaves RBI today with a sense of unfinished business on the central bank’s autonomy & the health of lenders.

NS Vishwanathan re-appointed RBI deputy governor for a year

With effect from 4 July, NS Vishwanathan will be one of the three deputy governors of the RBI, besides BP Kanungo and MK Jain.

It wasn’t a mistake to hire ‘Harvard’ economists, but Modi govt should’ve paid heed to them

The country is the loser when top-flight economists leave, especially when growth has slowed and there are macro-economic challenges in every direction.

A hard-hitting batsman not at the World Cup & a PM bent on flogging a ‘dead’ opposition

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.