Interview with chairman, SBI
Only Indian to feature in the list this time
Agri sector need an added thrust to drive the economy as it has been hit by 2 bad monsoons
She said that in matters of real national importance govt should go for it
Arundhati Bhattacharya said what owners did was not a concern as long as companies operated in a responsible manner
Cong said that as many as 70 lakh cards have been affected by the 'massive data breach' which is one of the 'biggest scams'
Arundhati Bhattacharya gets one-year extension amid consolidation with associate banks
She took over as first woman to head country's largest bank, with which she has had a 36-year association, on October 7, 2013
The SBI chief also said that most industrial units are working at 60 to 65% of their capacity against the desired 80 to 85%
Bhattacharya's three-year term comes to an end this month
The SBI chief also said that liquidity risk is the biggest risk which the banking sector is facing today
Key takeaways from SBI chairman's interview to The Financial Express
Describes Brexit as a "wrong step" saying the world tomorrow has to globalise and get more connected and collaborative
The SBI chairperson has moved up five spots from the previous year
Cost of merger on pension account would be around Rs.3,000 crore, but net-net cost of merger will not be overwhelming said SBI chairperson
SBI chief, at IIM-A convocation, suggests students to be an employer instead of being an employee as every month millions of people are added who are looking for jobs
Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairperson of the State Bank of India, has a simple message for defaulters in a conversation with Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7's Walk the Talk programme. Edited excerpts:How bad is the bad debt problem?When we started with this non-performing assets issue, the steel sector was not stressed. Now the steel sector is stressed because of dumping by China. Hopefully, over the next two quarters the pressure will ease. Then the upstream oil people are seeing stress because of the fall in oil prices.Business risks will continue to occur no matter what we do, but those risks don't come in as a lot, like this time. Normally it happens slowly, in one sector and not in the other. In this case, it all came together. So we don't expect to come out 100 per cent clean, but clean to some extent.Raghuram Rajan said first you accept the problem, and then you can deal with it...There is no question of not accepting the problem. But you can't go to a war without weapons. Even though