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Thursday, January 29, 2026
TopicForeign exchange

Topic: foreign exchange

RBI needs to ramp up bond purchases to cool yields, Funds say

The RBI has injected a record Rs 14.5 trillion of liquidity since Dec 2024. Yet long-term bond yields have barely reacted.

India may reconsider allowing local firms to list on foreign exchanges, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Under current regulations, Indian firms are not allowed to list directly on overseas exchanges. They can only list on foreign exchanges via instruments such as depository receipts.

Industrialist Anil Ambani appears before Enforcement Directorate in foreign exchange case

He was questioned by the probe agency for alleged foreign exchange violation.

No, Netflix won’t be more expensive because of Modi govt’s new foreign transaction rules. Here’s why

Breaking down the new tax rules for payments made abroad, including those using credit cards. Compliance costs are set to increase.

India’s forex reserves fall to $537.52 billion, notching steepest weekly fall in six months

The country's reserves were $545.65 billion at the end of the previous week. Reserves have now fallen for eight straight weeks and are near their lowest levels since August 2020.

Behind India’s chronic trade deficit, a few ignorant accounting formulas

A persistent and large deficit fails to pressure the dollar upwards, relative to the rupee, resulting in the latter’s overvaluation.

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.

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.

The chances of India being named a currency manipulator are slim

It is highly unlikely that India will be called a manipulator as it has persistently been running current account deficits since 2005.

Chhattisgarh officers bought forex through impersonation and fraud, says ED probe

Additional chief secretary M.K. Raut and OSD P.K. Janawade allegedly acquired $23,380 in the name of 23 persons most of whom didn't even travel with them.

On Camera

Why sharp selloff in Japanese bonds has a message for India’s budget

Although its overall GDP will soon be bigger than Japan’s, on a per-capita basis India is still 12 times poorer.

India’s looking at 14 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2030, recycling can’t keep up—NITI Aayog

Country's used lithium-ion battery problem is also set to grow sharply in next decade. India 3rd largest e-waste producer with 7% global share but currently recycles only about 10% of it.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.