Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Inflation: Pulses put on display for sale at wholesale grocery market Khari Baoli, Delhi | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The latest annual report released by the RBI highlights the factors and disruptors that heightened inflation levels worldwide. It also identifies the specific commodities that affected inflation across different components, like food, fuel and core […]

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RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee meet starts amid expectations of yet another rate hike

RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee meet starts amid expectations of yet another rate hike

Representational image only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) rate-setting panel on April 3 started its three-day meeting amid expectations that the Central bank may go for 25 basis points hike in benchmark interest rate, probably the last in the current monetary tightening cycle that began in May 2022. Reserve Bank […]

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Government’s total liabilities rise 2.6% to ₹150.95 lakh crore in Q3 FY23: Report

Government’s total liabilities rise 2.6% to ₹150.95 lakh crore in Q3 FY23: Report

Representational image only. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@FinMinIndia The government’s total liabilities rose to ₹150.95 lakh crore in December quarter from ₹147.19 lakh crore in the three months ended September 2022, according to the latest public debt management report. The increase reflects a quarter-on-quarter increase of 2.6% in October-December 2022-23. In absolute terms, the total liabilities, […]

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RBI and PSPB paddlers reign supreme

RBI and PSPB paddlers reign supreme

The Reserve Bank of India women’s squad that took the honours in the UTT-84th senior National and Inter-State table tennis championships in Jammu on Thursday, March 23. | Photo Credit: K. Keerthivasan The victorious PSPB men’s squad in the UTT-84th senior National and Inter-State table tennis championships in Jammu on March 23. | Photo Credit: […]

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RBI’s rigorous supervision keeps Indian banks healthy: CII president Sanjiv Bajaj

RBI’s rigorous supervision keeps Indian banks healthy: CII president Sanjiv Bajaj

Sanjiv Bajaj, president of the Confederation of Indian Industry and CMD of Bajaj Finserv. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Reserve Bank of India’s rigorous supervision and monitoring is helping keep India banks healthy, according to Sanjiv Bajaj, president of the Confederation of Indian Industry and CMD of Bajaj Finserv. “Our own growth as an […]

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RBI should pause and think about decoupling from U.S. Fed: Soumya Kanti Ghosh

RBI should pause and think about decoupling from U.S. Fed: Soumya Kanti Ghosh

File photo of SBI group chief economic adviser Soumya Kanti Ghosh. Mr. Ghosh recently said RBI should consider decoupling from the U.S. Federal Reserve. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The RBI should “pause and think” if it can continue mirroring the U.S. Federal Reserve “stroke by stroke” in terms of rate hikes or decouple from […]

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India’s economic growth appears to be very fragile, says RBI Monetary Policy Committee member Varma

India’s economic growth appears to be very fragile, says RBI Monetary Policy Committee member Varma

RBI Monetary Policy Committee member Jayanth R. Varma. Photo: iima.ac.in India’s economic growth appears to be ‘very fragile’ and it may fall short of what the country needs to meet the aspirations of its growing workforce, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Jayanth R. Varma said on February 26. In India, Mr. Varma said he […]

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Morning Digest | EU approves 10th package of Russia sanctions; NDA has changed fate of northeast in past nine years, says PM Modi, and more 

Morning Digest | EU approves 10th package of Russia sanctions; NDA has changed fate of northeast in past nine years, says PM Modi, and more 

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium | Photo Credit: Reuters EU approves 10th package of Russia sanctions on anniversary of invasion The European Union, after hectic last-minute haggling, has approved a tenth package of Russia sanctions on the anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Swedish EU Presidency said late on Friday. […]

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Indian economic growth ‘extremely fragile’, needs all support: RBI Monetary Policy Committee member Jayanth Varma

Indian economic growth ‘extremely fragile’, needs all support: RBI Monetary Policy Committee member Jayanth Varma

India’s economic growth is now ‘extremely fragile’ and needs all the support that it can get, as private consumption and capital investment are yet to pick up, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Jayanth R Varma said on December 23. Mr. Varma further said out of the four engines of growth for the economy, exports […]

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