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  WATCH: What Bibek Debroy said on alleged 'intolerance' during India TV interview in 2015

  India | November 01, 2024 13:08 IST

  Debroy believed that intolerance in academic circles always existed in India and it was practised by left-wing circuits having state patronage.

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  Bibek Debroy dies: A Kolkata boy who shaped India's economic and intellectual landscape

  India | November 01, 2024 11:56 IST

  Debroy was celebrated for his extensive contributions to economic policy and research. He also chaired the Finance Ministry's 'Expert Committee for Infrastructure Classification and Financing Framework for Amrit Kaal.

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  Bibek Debroy, Chairman of PM's Economic Advisory Council and economist, dies at 69

  India | November 01, 2024 12:29 IST

  Bibek Debroy was also a Member of NITI Aayog up to June 5, 2019. He has authored/edited several books, papers and popular articles and has also been a Consulting/Contributing Editor with several newspapers.

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  Putin replaces Sergei Shoigu as Defence Minister in surprise move, appoints civilian economist

  World | May 13, 2024 10:27 IST

  Shoigu, 68, has been in charge of defence since 2012 and a long-time ally of Putin, who came under fire after his deputy was arrested last month on bribery charges. Putin has appointed him to lead Russia's powerful Security Council, replacing Nikolai Patrushev.

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  India's GDP growth in Q1 FY24 to exceed RBI's estimate of 8%, say economists

  Business | August 23, 2023 10:30 IST

  The RBI had forecast a growth of 8% in the April-June quarter in its monetary policy statement in June. However, economists believe that the actual growth could be higher, at around 8.3% to 8.5%.

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  RBI may increase the repo rate by 25 bps in upcoming monetary policy meeting

  Business | March 30, 2023 13:37 IST

  Since May last year, the RBI has raised the repo rate by 250 basis points as a measure to combat the escalation of inflation.

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  Abhijit Sen, former member of Planning Commission of India passes away

  Business | August 30, 2022 7:05 IST

  Abhijit Sen taught economics at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, and held several important government positions during his career.

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  Gita Gopinath, Kamlesh Lulla among 34 immigrants honoured by prestigious American Foundation

  World | July 02, 2021 8:37 IST

  IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath and NASA scientist Kamlesh Lulla are among the 34 immigrants honoured by a prestigious American foundation ahead of the US Independence Day

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  Acharya's exit will not roil markets: SBI report

  Business | June 24, 2019 20:07 IST

  The bank's latest Ecowrap research report authored by SBI Chief Economist Soumya Kanti Ghosh said the exit of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor was not surprising. 

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  'I am an economist, how can Jaitley be better than me', asks Subramanian Swamy

  Politics | September 17, 2016 21:14 IST

  BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said that he will be a better finance minister than the incumbent Arun Jaitley. "I am an economist. He is a lawyer. How can he be better than me?"

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  Jagdish Bhagwati lauds Narendra Modi as people's PM

  India | January 14, 2015 9:36 IST

  New Delhi:  Lauding him “as people's Prime Minister”, noted economist Jagdish Bhagwati on Tuesday said Narendra Modi is committed to expeditious reforms and guessed that he will open FDI in multi-brand retail in a year.“Traditional

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  Nobel-winning economist backs RBI's anti-inflation policy

  November 06, 2014 7:12 IST

  Mumbai: Nobel laureate economist Finn Kydland has supported Reserve Bank Governor (RBI) Raghuram Rajan's strategy of fighting inflation through high interest rates and dismissed concerns of its impact on the growth."If inflation has been over

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  India needs a realistic PM, not an economist says, Rajnath Singh

  Politics | September 30, 2013 17:01 IST

  Kolkata: Saying that the country was passing through a deep economic crisis for the first time since Independence, BJP president Rajnath Singh today said that the country needed a ‘realistic' prime minister and not an

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  Modi meets captains of industry in Mumbai for 2 hours

  India | June 27, 2013 23:30 IST

  Mumbai, Jun 27: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today held a closed-door meeting with the industry captains during his first visit to the city after he was made the head of BJP's Lok Sabha campaign