ThePrint spoke to several prominent economists on whether RBI’s current interest rate policy is adversely impacting growth or if watching inflation should be the way forward.
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The central bank kept the key repo rate unchanged for an eighth straight policy meeting earlier this month saying robust economic growth will give it space to focus on bringing down inflation towards its medium-term target.
Governor Shaktikanta Das also provided a positive outlook for manufacturing and services sector, while adding that agricultural sector was expected to remain resilient.
RBI Governor Das highlighted benefits of central bank digital currencies, or e-rupee in India’s case, and said it is working on ‘programmability’ of e-rupee to enable cash transfers.
RBI’s monetary policy committee voted to keep interest rates unchanged at 6.5%, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. Adds, inflation is set to ease further to 5.2% by end of financial year.
In its monetary policy statement, the RBI projected the real GDP growth for the current fiscal at 6.5%, while the retail inflation was projected at 5.4%.
New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.
Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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