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View: Four ways in which the Budget can fulfil Modi's dream of a digital India

A logical corollary of such change in behavioural patterns is that we must take steps to inculcate such habits on a permanent basis. To thi...

Tech tonic for growth: Will FM's bahi-khata this year have what's been missing from Budgets so far?

All developed countries, including the US and in Europe, are stagnating. There is no galloping tech horse that India can jump on. The Chine...

Ecomm regulator, data protection on Thursday’s policy meet agenda

An e-commerce law that restricts the information that these companies can store, use, transfer, process and analyse is also on the agenda. ...

RBI remains steadfast to take any further measures to support growth: Shaktikanta Das

Delivering the 39th Palkhivala Memorial Lecture, the governor said the principal objective during the pandemic period was to support econom...

RBI’s ‘unambiguous’ objective is to revive growth: Governor Shaktikanta Das

``Our principal objective during this pandemic period was to support economic activity; and looking back, it is evident that our policies h...

Stricter framework for banks, NBFCs on anvil: RBI Guv Shaktikanta Das

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday said the central bank seeks to tweak regulatory framework in order to stre...

Finmin looks at BIC model after RBI raises concern over zero coupon bonds for PSBs recap

The report recommended transferring shares of the government in the banks to the BIC which would become the parent holding company of all t...

Reserve Bank of India likely to propose stricter rules for shadow banks: Sources

The Reserve Bank began trying to move towards tighter norms for the sector after Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services, the largest N...

FSDC sub-committee reviews developments in economy

It also reviewed the activities of various technical groups under its purview and the functioning of State Level Coordination Committees (S...

View: RBI and the art of managing conflicts amid Das' easy monetary policies for 2021

The phrase 'stretched valuations of financial assets’ is euphemism for 'asset price bubbles’ because no central banker can afford to utter ...

View: For the sake of economic recovery, it is time to get along and get it right this year

India’s path to economic recovery in 2021 will be a gradual one. It requires a continuously synchronised broad-based policy support from bo...

Economists urge Prime Minister Modi to push privatisation, increase infrastructure spending

In a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they suggested relaxing the fiscal deficit target in order to push infrastructure s...

View: India’s inflation targeting framework ain’t broke. But it can definitely do with some improvement

The consumer price index (CPI) inflation mid-point target should be maintained at 4% within a +/-2% band, but a blended core inflation — av...

Indian-American named to Houston Board of Dallas Federal Reserve Bank

Bhavesh V Patel, an Indian-American top executive of a multinational chemical company, has been appointed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Da...

RBI introduces Digital Payments Index, says DPI grew 2x in March 2020 vs March 2018

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constructed a composite Digital Payments Index (DPI) to capture the extent of digitisation of payments ...

RBI launches surveys to get inputs for monetary policy

Announcing the launch of the January 2021 round of the Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH), the RBI said it aims to capture ...

Reserve Bank of India cautions against unauthorised digital lending platforms, mobile apps

Legitimate public lending activities can be undertaken by banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) registered with the RBI and other ...