Will try to keep interest rate benign for as long as possible: SBI chief

State Bank of India will try to keep the interest rates benign as long as possible with a view to supporting the economic growth, its chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara has said.   On the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 on non-performing assets of the bank, the SBI chief said that as the lockdown was not pan-India, one will have to wait and watch to assess its impact on the banking sector.   In an interview to PTI, observing that multiple variables including inflation have a bearing on the intere...