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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicCurrency swap

Topic: Currency swap

India & Maldives reboot ties, sign currency swap agreements as Muizzu & Modi meet

Talks on FTA & vision for comprehensive economic & maritime security partnership are other talk outcomes. Maldivian President looks to India for tiding over liquidity challenges.

India considers currency swap of another $1.1 bn with Sri Lanka, no timeline decided

RBI has already finalised an agreement to extend a $400 million currency swap facility to Sri Lanka, but its President Gotabaya has asked for $1.1 billion more.

Rupee’s advance seems to be causing some discomfort for RBI

The central bank has announced plans to hold a $5 billion foreign-exchange swap auction for a three-year tenor.

How India stands to gain from the $75 billion currency swap deal with Japan

The agreement was signed during PM Modi’s visit to Japan. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said it reflected the “depth of our deeper economic relationship”.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.