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Topic: Forex reserves

‘India’s forex reserves jumps to new all-time high of $648.7 billion,’ says RBI

This is the third consecutive week of increase in the overall kitty, which had increased by $2.561 billion to $644.151 billion in the previous reporting week ended 17 May.

India took pride in foreign spending. Under Modi govt, it has become a source of insecurity

Since October 2023, foreign transactions above Rs 7 lakh under Liberalised Remittance Scheme have attracted a 20% tax collected at source. It’s sending a signal to big spenders abroad: we are watching you.

India’s foreign exchange reserves rise to $578 billion, highest in over eight months

India's forex reserves rose for a second week, increasing by $5.98 billion & stood at its highest since early July, according to RBI's statistical supplement. The rupee ended at 82.16 Friday.

Forex exchange reserves fall to over 3-month low of $560 billion

The central bank intervenes in the spot and forwards market to prevent runaway moves in the rupee’s exchange rate against the dollar.

RBI’s 2013 playbook to rebuild forex reserves unlikely to work, say analysts

These reserves have declined to $110 billion from a peak of $642 billion in September last year, largely due to the fall in the value of holdings in dollars & other currencies.

Blaming Newton’s curse for plunging rupee & ‘gloves are off’ in Tharoor-Gehlot tussle

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Indian Rupee opens at record low of 81.09 versus US dollar; biggest single-day fall since Feb

India's forex reserves have been consistently depleting for the past few months, on account of RBI's likely intervention in the market to defend the depreciating rupee.

Rupee-rouble romance was for Soviet era. Not trade option now for India-Russia

India looking at 'several options' to do business with Russia in light of the economic sanctions slapped on the country by the US and the European Union over its war on Ukraine. 

How Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to total organic farming has led to an economic disaster

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to impose an economic emergency on 31 August to contain soaring food inflation, and currency devaluation and forex reserves crisis.

Forex reserves surge by $16.66 to record high of $633.55 billion in August

The surge was due to an increase in special drawing rights holdings, RBI data showed. IMF made an allocation of SDR 12.57 billion to India in August this year.

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Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.