Chief economic adviser Raghuram Rajan will be the new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor after incumbent D Subbarao retires on September 5.

The Finance Ministry's office has confirmed the appointment for three years..

There were two other contenders - Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram and Planning Commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.