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Surprise attendance

A bunch of banking sector leaders was in for a surprise last Thursday when Piyush Goyal, who has been given additional charge of the finance ministry recently, took a last-minute call on Wednesday evening to attend a review meeting. The meeting attended by finance ministry officials and top executives of 11 public sector banks was scheduled to take place on Thursday, from 11 am to 5.30 pm, and was to be chaired by department of financial services secretary Rajiv Kumar. However, not only did Goyal attend the first session of the meeting in the morning, he returned later to