The Jharkhand high court dismissed a public interest litigation against Chief Minister Hemant Soren regarding mining lease allocation in his name and the name of his close relatives.
Soren had been summoned by the agency six times in the past three months, in an ongoing money laundering probe related to an alleged land scam in the state capital
All six members of the Reserve Bank of India s (RBI s) monetary policy committee (MPC) expressed caution over food inflation during the December review, while two external members warned about high real interest rates as headline inflation approaches its target of 4 per cent.
The central bank continued to maintain the status quo on both the repo rate and the stance in the December monetary policy.
India s retail inflation in November rose to 5.5 per cent - its fastest pace in three months - due to higher food prices.