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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: Forex reserves

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.

Forex reserves decline by $2.47 billion to $616.89 billion in August

The decrease in the reserves was due to a drop in the foreign currency assets (FCAs), a major component of the overall reserves, RBI data showed.

How Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh rescued India in 1991 and made history

The reforms were undertaken exactly 30 years ago, at a time when India was facing its worst economic crisis. Here’s a look at what led to the crisis and how India weathered it.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.