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Sunday, August 10, 2025
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Topic: rupee

Urjit Patel won the first round in RBI vs Centre, but the war isn’t over

The timing of RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya’s scathing speech was impeccable.

No end to the CBI’s woes, and King Kohli breaches another landmark

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

Rupee to nosedive on rising oil prices & political uncertainty, says forecaster

With India importing 80 per cent of its oil needs, the rupee's weakness is also a reflection of the country's vulnerability to higher crude prices.

India’s forex reserves post biggest weekly fall since 2011 to well below $400 billion

Forex reserves fell to $394.47 billion as the Reserve Bank of India sold dollars to shore up the sinking rupee.

Ahead of earnings season, stock market rebounds from a 6-month low

After Sensex dropped to 23.4 Tuesday, some investors judged the selloff as excessive which rebounded Indian stocks. Mumbai: Indian stocks rebounded as some investors judged...

India’s plunging stock markets not expected to recover overnight

Domestic & global headwinds are expected to keep sentiments bearish for investors in Indian stock markets.

Commerce minister Suresh Prabhu to chair inter-ministerial meeting to tackle falling rupee

Representatives from the department of economic affairs, coal ministry, oil ministry and department of pharmaceuticals are likely to attend.

Tax iPhones, don’t raise interest rates to support rupee, says Modi’s advisor

PM’s Economic Advisory Council member Rathin Roy says imports of iPhones & spending on foreign education has gone up.

Duty on 19 items increased: Back to License-Raj era or essential to cut down import bill?

The government has hiked import duty on 19 items, including washing machines, air conditioners, footwear, diamonds, jet fuel, as part of its plan to...

Cap on oil prices will rescue sinking rupee, says SBI

The currency's recent descent is said to be self-correcting to some extent as its weakness will help perk up exports. 

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

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

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.