MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India’s Deputy Governor, Poonam Gupta, has responded to recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) comments questioning the quality of India’s growth data and classifying the Indian rupee’s exchange rate regime as a “crawling peg” within a managed float system.On the concern regarding data quality, Gupta said that the IMF’s critique is more…
File photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Picture credit: AP) India and Russia on Friday firmed up a five-year plan to boost economic and trade ties, even as Washington’s tariffs and sanctions loom, relying on the resilience of the decades-old partnership.Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin used the…
Silver soars to a record high, Indians rush to cash in!The India Bullion & Jewellers Association (IBJA) estimates that about 100 tonnes of old silver were sold in just one week, a volume that typically takes several months to surface. Under normal circumstances, the domestic market receives only 10–15 tonnes of old silver in an…
Netflix is one step closer to pulling off one of the biggest entertainment takeovers in recent history. The streaming giant is now in exclusive negotiations to purchase Warner Bros Discovery’s film and television studios, as well as its streaming businesses, after putting forward an offer priced at $28 per share, according to a source with…
MUMBAI: Home loan rates are set to drop to levels last seen before the global financial crisis in 2008, with the RBI’s monetary policy committee reducing the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.25%.Several banks — Union Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra and Indian Overseas Bank — currently offer home loans at…
Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday said the central bank does not target any specific price level or band for the rupee, and allows the currency to find its own “correct” value in the market, even as it hovers near the 90-per-dollar mark, PTI reported. “We don’t target any price levels or any bands….
US President Donald Trump in August imposed 50% tariffs on Indian exports to America, 25% of which are for India’s crude oil imports from Russia. (AI image) RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra is of the view that the tariffs imposed on Indian exports are an opportunity for the sector. In a post RBI policy press conference,…
Skip Bengaluru. Take a trip to Thailand instead. Or Vietnam. Or London. Or even Singapore. All at a much much much cheaper rate than Delhi to Bengaluru, Goa, Pune or Goa. But you cannot travel to Hyderabad, at least not on Friday, because the tickets are sold out. Ironically, IndiGo flight tickets are available.The situation…
Fixed deposit investors may soon face another round of interest rate cuts after the RBI announced reducing the repo rate for the fourth time this year. The central bank on Friday reduced the interest rate by 25 basis points to 5.25%, which is down 125 basis points from the 6.5% level at the start of…
InterGlobe Aviation, commonly known as IndiGo, has been struggling to keep up not just on the runway but also on the Dalal Street. As the chaos has stretched into its fourth day, deepening operational turmoil has also spilled into the stock market, with investor sentiment taking a visible hit as large-scale cancellations continue across the…
