Sushma to inaugurate first Videsh Bhavan

Mumbai: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will inaugurate the country’s first Videsh Bhavan at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) here on Sunday. As a pilot project, four offices of MEA — Regional Passport Office, Protector of Emigrants office, Branch Secretariat and Regional Office of ICCR — have been assimilated and brought under one roof. IANS

Rajan’s book on RBI stint in ‘turbulent times’

New Delhi: Raghuram Rajan explains economic concepts and talks of issues like tolerance and connection between political freedom and prosperity in his new book — I Do What I Do: On Reform, Rhetoric & Resolve — which is a collection of essays and speeches during his stint as RBI head. When Rajan took charge as RBI Governor in September 2013, the rupee was in free fall, inflation was high and exchange reserves were falling. Rajan’s commentary and speeches in the book convey what it was like to be at the helm of the central bank in those turbulent but exciting times, it said. PTI