Can someone ask India's central banker some tough questions please?

But just two days later, on April 05, veteran journalists attending a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) press conference, post the monetary policy review, gagged themselves. Seven reporters, who got the chance, failed to ask RBI governor Urjit Patel a single direct question on the biggest controversies that
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In light of this, the company expressed its interest in buying Air India's international operations, along with Air India Express, a short-haul low-cost carrier. Acquisition of the international operations would have given IndiGo an immediate access to the various restricted and closed foreign markets and
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India's federal police have questioned former deputy governor of the central bank, H.R. Khan, in relation to the $2 billion fraud at … The fraud – which is being investigated by India's federal police and other enforcement agencies – is the biggest in the country's banking history.
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The Co-operative Group returned to profit in 2017, a year after the writedown of its stake in the Co-op Bank dragged it to a loss. It posted a pre-tax profit of £72m for the year to December 31, up from a loss of £132m after “improving business performance” and cutting costs, the mutual said on Friday.
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Facebook is rolling out a pair of verification policies meant to “support positive discourse and prevent interference” in elections, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday. Moving forward, only verified advertisers — those who have confirmed their identity and location with Facebook administrators
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Financially, it breaks families,” one trapped homebuyer told the Star's real estate reporter, Tess Kalinowski. He is in a pickle. He offers lessons for the fortunately not-yet-pickled. Kalinowski writes expertly on the consequences of an unreliably hot market. (There is no such thing as a reliable one.
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The institutional investor owned 42,209 shares of the insurance provider's stock after buying an additional 11,462 shares during the quarter. Two Sigma Advisers LP owned approximately 0.14% of Argo Group International worth $2,602,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC. A number of other
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Now, on Friday, investors can't get out of the company, even as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that the Nasdaq-traded company violated federal securities laws. According to the commission, it has frozen roughly $27 million in trading proceeds individuals associated with
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The median price for a detached, single-family home in the Flagstaff region has hovered around $375,000 in recent months. That is at least $100,000 more than a family earning the region's median income of about $65,000 can reasonably afford with conventional financing, say mortgage lenders.
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“When I served on the House Committee on Financial Services as a Member of Congress, I was frequently frustrated with what I perceived to be a lack of responsiveness, transparency and accountability at the Bureau,” Mulvaney wrote. “I encourage you to consider the possibility that the frustration you
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Pennsylvania State Police said they received reports from multiple people in March regarding Psychic and Tarot Card Readings by Sophia in Center Township. Authorities investigated the reports and on Thursday charged Sophey Mills, 27, with fortune telling and felony theft by deception. According to a
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First American Title Ins. Co., Inc., 325 Ga. App. 448, 464, 754 S.E.2d 85, 98 (2013), citing “Black's Law Dictionary.” A general provision requiring indemnification “for all loss, cost or damage” is insufficient to provide for the recovery of attorney fees because “one would have to infer that the phrase 'loss,
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More than half of Australia's home loans are organised by mortgage brokers. But are they working for you, the bank, or themselves? Commissioner Kenneth Hayne, presiding over his Royal Commission into misconduct in banking, was both clear and relentless in his pursuit of an answer to this question.
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For now, creeping mortgage rates and 2017's tax reform law don't seem to faze real estate professionals. Freddie Mac shows 30-year fixed-rate mortgages at 4.43 percent on March 1. Hardly vertiginous. “I've been in the business since Jimmy Carter was president, so I've seen it up to 15, 17, 18 percent,
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The average house price in Sydney will double in the next decade, topping a staggering $2million, property experts have warned. But wages will only increase by 33 per cent as owning property in the country's biggest city looks to be even more difficult in 2028. Projections at the current rate of increase
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India asked global companies to submit proposals for 110 fighter jets, the world's biggest such order currently. The Indian Air Force sought requests for information for the supply of single- and twin-seat jets to be mostly manufactured locally, it said in a statement on its website. The Asian nation had
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Vittoria Shortt says doing what she loves, being curious and saying yes to every good opportunity offered to her have been key in getting to the top of the corporate ladder. The 46-year-old is just two months into the job as the new chief executive of ASB Bank and is brimming with enthusiasm for both the
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According to a study by the Mortgage Bankers Association, the US lenders are expected to issue a smaller amount of mortgages in 2018. Total mortgage originations are expected to fall to $1.60 trillion this year from $1.69 trillion in 2017. The amount of new loans to refinance a home are expected to
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