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India's central bank is on course to bring down prices but the retail inflation rate is likely to remain above the top end of its mandated target band until December, Governor Shaktikanta Das said

Inflation will return to the Reserve Bank of India’s mid-point target in two years, a senior central banker said, with policy actions aimed at cooling price pressures set to take a toll on the economy. More on that story and other headlines.

Parameswaran Iyer, credited for Swachh Bharat plan, is new NITI Aayog CEO
 

Parameswaran Iyer, a retired civil servant who led the Swachh Bharat cleanliness mission, is the new CEO of NITI Aayog, said the government on Friday. Iyer’s tenure will last two years. Incumbent CEO Amitabh Kant's tenure ends on June 30. The personnel ministry order said Iyer's