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Friday, August 8, 2025
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Topic: interest rate

Reluctant emerging Asia, including India, could delay real interest rate hikes until 2022

Michelle Jamrisko -
All 8 emerging Asian economies, including India & Indonesia, are expected to hold benchmark interest rates steady through 2021, according to forecasts by economists.

Order to withdraw interest rate slashing oversight or election-driven hindsight, asks Congress

PTI -
Party general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala hit out at Nirmala Sitharaman and said she has no right to continue as the finance minister.

Modi govt withdraws cuts in small savings rates hours after order as Assam, Bengal vote

Remya Nair -
In a tweet Thursday morning, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the order issued by 'oversight,' stands withdrawn.

With inflation set to moderate, RBI could go back to easing interest rates again

Anirban Nag -
Consumer price index figures due Tuesday are expected to show a 5% increase in December, returning to RBI's target range of 2% to 6%.

RBI’s MPC is now decidedly more dovish, the consensus on ‘lower for longer’ rates is proof

Manojit Saha -
Markets expects further interest rate cuts as the monetary policy committee of RBI sees inflationary pressure to ease.

In ‘Diwali bonus’, govt waives interest-on-interest even for those who didn’t opt for moratorium

Manojit Saha -
After its affidavit to SC, govt orders issues waiver norms including cashback by 5 November. All standard accounts up to 29 February eligible for benefits.

Remove sedition law—G Bhatia, Raja Mohan’s lessons from China, Vyas on 4 million new jobs

Pia Krishnankutty -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

RBI cuts interest rate by 25 bps: Can transmission happen unless PSU banks are reformed?

ThePrint Team -
RBI Monetary Policy Committee cut the interest rate by 25 basis points Thursday, and changed its policy stance from 'neutral' to 'accommodative'

India’s contrarian economist bets RBI will lower benchmark interest rate by 35 basis points

Ronojoy Mazumdar -
Economist Indranil Sen Gupta's prediction is based on RBI governor Shaktikanta Das’s comments that central banks could be more flexible in the size of rate adjustments.

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das’s idea of a 10 basis points rate cut would be meaningless

Ila Patnaik -
A 10 basis points cut would hardly have any impact on the Indian market. Instead, RBI needs to consider bigger cuts to impact interest rates.
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US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

Shishir Priyadarshi -
India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

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Economy

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Defence

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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