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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicRBI reserves

Topic: RBI reserves

MPC meet: Why RBI revised its GDP growth estimate & cut inflation forecast

RBI cuts the repo rate to 5.25%, revises FY26 GDP growth to 7.3%, and lowers its inflation forecast to 2%, signalling stronger momentum and easing food-price pressures

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.