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RBI lifts gold import curbs ahead of budget
19 Feb 2015
RBI holds key rates; eases banks’ liquidity ratio by 50 bps
03 Feb 2015
The argument that high interest rates are holding up business expansion and economic growth does not hold since it is now estimated that India’s GDP grew at 6.9 per cent in the 2013-14 fiscal, under a higher interest rate regime
RBI eases rules for recasting overseas loans
23 Jan 2015
RBI soothes markets with a surprise 0.25% cut in repo rate
15 Jan 2015
The stock market greeted the announcement with a 600-point jump in the Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index, Sensex, which inched closer to the 28,000-mark in opening trade
RBI chief Rajan named world banking’s ‘Governor of the Year’
13 Jan 2015
The London-based financial journal Central Banking named RBI governor Raghuram Rajan ‘Governor of the Year’ on Monday
Tight-knit banking system could lead to total collapse, warns RBI
30 Dec 2014
RBI expects the level of banks’ bad loans to go down to 4 per cent by March 2016 from 4.5 per cent at the end of September 2014 under its baseline scenario, but under its "severe stress" scenario that ratio could rise to around 6.3 per cent
Can’t cut rates with every drop in inflation: RBI chief Rajan
27 Dec 2014
Rajan, who has kept the key policy rate at 8 per cent since January, said policy rates are not decided on the basis of daily movement of prices and that he would rather wait for a stable low-price scenario
RBI widens ambit for banks to deal with loan defaulters
23 Dec 2014
RBI has defined a non-cooperative borrower as a defaulter who deliberately stonewalls legitimate efforts of lenders to recover their dues, thereby narrowing the difference with a ‘willful defaulter’
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