India's Central Bank holds policy rates unchanged to control inflation

Shaktikanta Das, governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), attends a press conference at the RBI head office in Mumbai, India, Dec. 5, 2019. India's Central Bank announced to maintain the repo rate unchanged at 5.15 percent on Thursday, giving priority to control inflation rather than the diminishing growth in Asia's third largest economy. The statement was made after the country's Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) concluded its two-day meeting on Thursday. (Photo by Fariha Farooqui/Xinhua)