Rakesh Mohan

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member Rakesh Mohan today said he is unable to find the basis for assuming that logistics cost account for 14 per cent of India's GDP.

Actor Mithun Chakraborty had Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat over for breakfast today at his home in Mumbai. The meeting is significant ahead of the election in Bengal, the actor's native state, though he denied any politics in it.

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel quit last December after differences over transferring its reserves to the Union government, a member of a panel set up to study the central bank's capital framework has told NDTV.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today held discussions with Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh and a few others on how to resolve the farmers' issues and pacify them.

Former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Dr Rakesh Mohan, a key person in writing the new industrial policy of 1991, has now written a book to mark 70 years of independence that also comes 25 years after the reforms transformed India.

Top economist and RBI's former deputy governor Rakesh Mohan has been named senior fellow at the prestigious Yale University's institute for global affairs.

A Communist Party of India (ML) Legislator Mehboob Alam was today booked for allegedly slapping a branch manager of a bank in Bihar's Katihar district.

Indian government bonds rallied on Tuesday, with the benchmark 10-year yields at over three-year lows, as investors bet on benign inflation data later in the day and awaited a government announcement on the next RBI governor.

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan's successor is likely to be announced as early as this week, for which top contenders include NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya and former deputy governors of the central bank Subir Gokarn and Rakesh Mohan.

Amid intense speculation over the successor of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, Singaporean brokerage DBS on Friday said markets perceive the central bank as a credible and independent body, and would like to see the new head to continue with focus on inflation over growth.

The government has narrowed its long list of candidates for the next central bank governor to just four.

The government has whittled down its list of candidates to become the next governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to four, three of whom are economists and veterans of the central bank with the other the head of the country's largest bank.

A new Governor for the Reserve Bank of India may be appointed before the start of the monsoon session of Parliament next month even as former RBI Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan appears to be emerging as the front runner for the job.

Also on the list of possible successors is Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das and a trio of former or serving deputy central bank governors: Rakesh Mohan, Subir Gokarn and Urjit Patel.

In what is likely to appease the pro-growth lobby, Japanese brokerage Nomura has opined that most names being considered to fill the post of RBI Governor have a neutral-to-dovish stance on fighting inflation, unlike the incumbent Raghuram Rajan whose hawkishness is well known.

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member Rakesh Mohan today said he is unable to find the basis for assuming that logistics cost account for 14 per cent of India's GDP.

Actor Mithun Chakraborty had Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat over for breakfast today at his home in Mumbai. The meeting is significant ahead of the election in Bengal, the actor's native state, though he denied any politics in it.

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel quit last December after differences over transferring its reserves to the Union government, a member of a panel set up to study the central bank's capital framework has told NDTV.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today held discussions with Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh and a few others on how to resolve the farmers' issues and pacify them.

Former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Dr Rakesh Mohan, a key person in writing the new industrial policy of 1991, has now written a book to mark 70 years of independence that also comes 25 years after the reforms transformed India.

Top economist and RBI's former deputy governor Rakesh Mohan has been named senior fellow at the prestigious Yale University's institute for global affairs.

A Communist Party of India (ML) Legislator Mehboob Alam was today booked for allegedly slapping a branch manager of a bank in Bihar's Katihar district.

Indian government bonds rallied on Tuesday, with the benchmark 10-year yields at over three-year lows, as investors bet on benign inflation data later in the day and awaited a government announcement on the next RBI governor.

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan's successor is likely to be announced as early as this week, for which top contenders include NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya and former deputy governors of the central bank Subir Gokarn and Rakesh Mohan.

Amid intense speculation over the successor of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, Singaporean brokerage DBS on Friday said markets perceive the central bank as a credible and independent body, and would like to see the new head to continue with focus on inflation over growth.

The government has narrowed its long list of candidates for the next central bank governor to just four.

The government has whittled down its list of candidates to become the next governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to four, three of whom are economists and veterans of the central bank with the other the head of the country's largest bank.

A new Governor for the Reserve Bank of India may be appointed before the start of the monsoon session of Parliament next month even as former RBI Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan appears to be emerging as the front runner for the job.

Also on the list of possible successors is Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das and a trio of former or serving deputy central bank governors: Rakesh Mohan, Subir Gokarn and Urjit Patel.

In what is likely to appease the pro-growth lobby, Japanese brokerage Nomura has opined that most names being considered to fill the post of RBI Governor have a neutral-to-dovish stance on fighting inflation, unlike the incumbent Raghuram Rajan whose hawkishness is well known.