The fact-checking unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has called the assertion as "fake" and added that it is unsupported by official data.
The Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved a record surplus transfer of Rs 2.87 trillion to the Central government for 2025-26.
Sanjay Malhotra said the rising energy prices due to the ongoing Iran war were testing India's flexible inflation targeting. This necessitates potential policy intervention by the central bank.
The central bank announced the withdrawal of ₹2,000 denomination banknotes from circulation on May 19, 2023.
When regulators move early, markets often complain. That familiar tension is now visible in India’s banking sector as the Reserve Bank of India pushes lenders toward a more rigorous, forward-looking assessment of loan risk.
Srinivas B.V., the Youth Congress chief, and other workers who went outside the RBI to hold a protest were stopped and detained at the Mandir Marg police station.
Applicants like the UAE Exchange and Financial Services, the Repatriates Cooperative Finance and Development Bank, Chaitanya India Fin Credit, and Pankaj Vaish, and others applied to set up universal banks.
Surging reserves can be a double-edged sword as there is a cost to holding them. High reserves will obviously lead to appreciation of the currency and rise in inflation, because capital inflows that result in high reserves are used to buy domestic currency, thereby expanding the domestic monetary base without a corresponding increase in production, and this causes a rise in inflation.
Microfinance was once applauded as the world's most powerful tool for eliminating poverty. The initial microfinance boom brought many benefits. But it is now widely reported that the effects of microfinance loans on poverty, health and other social outcomes have been ‘small and inconsistent'.
RBI had slashed the repo rate by a total of 115 basis points (bps) since March 2020, to soften the blow from the pandemic.
