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Topic: currency

RBI pushed for trading platform to make forex cheaper for retailers. But it benefits banks

RBI allowing banks to charge users a ‘pre-agreed flat fee’ affects its intention of reducing retail cost of buying & selling foreign currencies.

US removes India from its currency monitoring list

On May 2018, India was placed on the list of countries with potentially questionable foreign exchange policies along with China, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland.

Is the Indian rupee overvalued?

From being Asia’s worst performing currency, Indian rupee turned on its head weeks before 2019 elections and further appreciated after BJP’s victory.

May need more currency as GDP size increasing, says RBI

Demonetisation caused a shrinkage in currency, but a growing GDP could require more currency in the system. 

Modi staying away from Parliament amounts to political obscenity

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Liberals hated the colours of Modi’s new notes but never understood their politics

The currency note was a prop, the ATM queues an exercise in behavioural psychology.

To stop rupee dive, India needs to move labour away from agriculture

Almost any movement of labour to non-agricultural activity — like construction or serving tourists — will translate into productivity gain.

Revised GDP data shows why Narendra Modi can’t let go of falling rupee

In the absence of reliable jobs data, all that was missing from the Congress' attack was clinching proof that his policies were growth-unfriendly.

Can India afford the rupee crossing the 70 mark or should the RBI boost the currency?

Currency experts say the rupee is expected to breach the 70-to-a-dollar mark in the next six to eight months. Experts weigh in.

From cabbage to oil, inflation has many fathers

According to a Goldman Sachs analysis of the inflation facet that most threatens each Asian economy, exchange-rate depreciation has an outsize impact on India's.

On Camera

Violence over Osman Hadi is about Islamist Bangladesh. India-baiting is a distraction

The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.