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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicRBI reserves

Topic: RBI reserves

RBI ramps up forwards market intervention in bid to slow rupee decline, protect reserves

Subhadip Sircar -
The Reserve Bank of India has run down its forward-dollar book by $12 billion to $15 billion from about $64 billion at the end of April, according to estimates by DBS Bank Ltd.

What Chinmayanand shares with India and a ‘muted’ Kashmir

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

How RBI is managing to give Modi govt the Rs 1.76 lakh crore record windfall

Anirban Nag -
Almost 70% of the Rs 1.76 lakh crore payment comes from income RBI earned on its investments. The rest comes from its surplus capital.

Trump ‘backs off’ (TOI), ‘agrees’ with Modi (HT) as PM ‘rejects’ his J&K offer

Pia Krishnankutty -
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As RBI transfers reserve surplus to Modi govt, it now has to find ways to manage risks

Ila Patnaik -
Instead of RBI holding capital, an MoU could be signed that would require the govt to pay the central bank in case of any risk.

Govt doesn’t need extra funds from RBI to manage fiscal deficit: Arun Jaitley

PTI -
Finance minister also says extra funds accruing from the new capital framework of RBI can be used for poverty alleviation by future governments.

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Opinion

India is becoming a Republic of RWAs. It’s the most powerful elected body

Karanjeet Kaur -
Civics textbooks need an upgrade, considering that RWAs enforce laws they’ve devised themselves – no matter if it violates a fundamental right or two.

With nuke lunacy, Asim Munir joins Pakistan’s Hall of Generals who swapped brains for bluster

Rahul’s ‘vote chori’ attack on EC is a political dead-end. He still has a point

Economy

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

Sampurna Panigrahi -
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Defence

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

Javaria Rana -
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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