Shaktikanta Das, economic secretary during demonetisation, is new RBI governor

The government on Tuesday appointed Shaktikanta Das, member of the fifteenth finance commission, as the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a day after Urjit Patel resigned at the end of a bruising tussle with the government over the regulator’s independence and the regulation of banks.

Dec 12, 2018, 10:06 AM IST