Most people were aghast to see the Prime Minister in the Reliance Jio ad last Friday September 2, 2016. The shock was no doubt because while we have seen our Prime Minister in the newspapers several times, it has traditionally been for the inauguration of an event, or for the announcement of some public sector project. But to see him in an ad for a private sector brand was both unexpected and unusual.
In August 2013, at the 10th Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Lecture on ‘Five Years of Leading the Reserve Bank—Looking Ahead by Looking Back’, a few days before he stepped down as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, Raghuram Rajan’s predecessor D. Subbarao dwelt on the issue of autonomy and accountability of the Indian central bank.
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Friends, today’s edition of Mint, has carried my story done for Founding Fuel, titled the New Rules of Business, Season 2.
'RBI issued instructions on trading in Priority Sector Lending Certificates (April 7, 2016) and a platform to enable trading in the certificates through its core banking solutions (CBS) portal (e-Kuber). All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including Regional Rural Banks), Urban Co-operative Banks, Small Finance Banks (when they become operational) and Local Area Banks are eligible to participate in the trading'.
On November 26, 2008, Mumbai was held hostage. Gunmen stormed into many prominent places in the city and shot down people. One of these places was the Taj Mahal Hotel. Stories of exemplary courage and sacrifice emerged, as ordinary citizens of Mumbai stood united in the face of terror.
Maha Mandi has increasingly become a common name among the B- school gentry. For those of you who are still living under a rock, Maha Mandi is a one of its kind event where students sell educational toys and handicraft products, sourced from NGOs, on the streets of Mumbai. While the academia, students and media alike focus on and rave about Maha Mandi-the event, I am going to lay focus on Maha Mandi-the learning method.
CineMBA is a series where InsideIIM and Professors from Top Business Schools endeavour to make learning fun and interesting instead of dull and boring. In this video, Mr Carlo Altomonte from MISB Bocconi explains what went wrong with the financial markets of 2008 with the help of the 2015 movie called 'The Big Short'.
