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RBI needs to open its vault and fill the hole left by Franklin Templeton

With the coronavirus lockdown decimating incomes & sentiment, leaving the hole created by Franklin Templeton unfilled may prove an error of judgment.

Sri Lanka to seek $400 million financial facility from RBI to meet short term financial needs

Sri Lanka has placed critical economic measures to save resources hit badly by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has infected 373 persons in the country.

Bond yields plunge as RBI readies to redeploy debt operation

The yield on 10-year bond dropped 20 basis points, the most since 27 March, to 6.02%, after RBI said it would buy long-term debt while selling bills.

Global markets will punish India for fiscal excesses: Former RBI governor Duvvuri Subbarao

Duvvuri Subbarao believes acting on calls for the RBI to directly fund the government borrowing will dent the central bank’s credibility.

There’s no need for RBI to be coy about financing deficits

With India’s GDP set to shrink, RBI needs to think beyond cutting interest rates and flooding banks with liquidity.

RBI stops defending the rupee as forex reserves rise and volatility falls

Slowdown in RBI intervention has come since US Fed launched temporary facility allowing other central banks to swap treasuries for dollars.

5 options RBI still has to combat the Covid economic crisis

With a limited fiscal response so far, the Reserve Bank of India has taken the lead in providing virus relief to the economy. It can do more.

Media layoffs amid Covid-19 crisis and coronavirus doesn’t care if you’re a VIP

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

Why it’s still expensive for states to borrow money when Covid-19 has shrunk interest rates

Amid a cash crunch due to Covid-19, states have been forced to borrow at a rate at least 1.3 percentage points higher than the rate at which RBI lends to banks.

Relief to NBFCs, stressed borrowers, credit flow to MSMEs: RBI Governor’s full speech

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das talked about how the economic landscape of the country has deteriorated due to the pandemic but remarked that there is still hope. Read his full speech here.

On Camera

Royals to Republicans—Epstein files have exposed fault lines across power circles

Donald Trump, who has nurtured the MAGA movement for the last decade, has been perceived to have lost control over the movement, particularly with the release of Epstein’s records.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.