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While banks’ governance is cause célèbre, no one talks about the functioning of their regulator. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up.
While it is true that recent decisions can make a big difference to the future of public sector banks, Debashis Basu gives some examples from the past decade. Read here
On what basis does the Reserve Bank of India penalise banks and how does it decide the penalty amount? Read Tamal Bandyopadhyay for the answer. Read here
Mihir S Sharma: If COP26 fails, it will be because of misplaced targets from the West and China, and a lack of ambition and imagination from India. Read here
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What is this thing about an alliance with the Congress? Should we have given one seat (to Congress) for it to lose (in the coming by-elections)? So that it could lose even its deposit?RJD chief Lalu Prasad
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