EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 26.10.09
For the moment, there is every indication that RBI will not raise any key policy rate���key figures in the government including the Prime Minister, finance minister and deputy chairman of the Planning Commission have said that India remains committed to. Interestingly, for the first time in recent years, Cabinet ministers, bureaucrats as well as economists working in the government have gone on record that the central bank must maintain status quo on interest rates.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.01.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. KAMEENI! KAMEENI! The best thing to have happened in the fight for free expression since loaves were sliced against conventional wisdom is Rakhi Sawant taking on the Censor Board of India.. The central bank also invented approaches to lending and purchasing assets that breathed some life into moribund markets like commercial paper and mortgage-backed securities. It led the... RBIs quarterly policy review is due today.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 12.11.10
project remains on hold because Israel has not given builders permission for a key access... One of the long-cherished myths in Pakistan, going back to Zulfikar Bhuttos time, is their fervent belief that Pakistan can hold Indias rise hostage to New Delhi settling Kashmir on their terms... There were two main options going into the November 2 policy review, given that RBI had already indicated in the September meeting that it was close to a neutral policy rate. One��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 27.10.10
Both the failed attempt to blow up a NorthWest Airlines flight to Detroit last Christmas and the Times Square bomb plot were linked to Pakistan. The US State Departments.. In the event of excess dollar inflows, the political economy will not allow the central bank to let the rupee appreciate beyond what is seen as a fair exchange rate... THERE is a strong case for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to hold its policy rates steady in its upcoming policy review next week.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 22.03.10
THE unexpected increase in key policy rates by the Reserve Bank of India ( RBI) on Friday appears to have alarmed foreign stock markets more than Indian investors.. This was affirmed in the Bichhri ( Indian Enviro) case ( 1995).. HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. IRE AND FIRE. There is no getting away from the scriptures in Indian politics. For every occasion, there is an allusion from our ancient texts to explain the situation. Just when we thought that the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 26.01.11
In raising the repo and reverse repo rates by just 0.25 per cent, the Reserve Bank of India has come up with a somewhat subdued response to inflation, which it says remains the dominant concern. However the policy review��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.07.10
The country is back on a strong growth path and the RBI has just raised policy rates to dampen inflationary pressures so portfolio investment will now increase, driving up both stock prices and the exchange rate.. Battling and defeating the Maoists has for some time now been neatly defined as a two-prong strategy of field battles using the police forces of affected states and Central paramilitary as well as undertaking developmental work in the backward areas where��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.01.11
Additionally, Mr Netanyahus economic policies that went into effect during his term as Finance Minister in Mr Ariel Sharons Government have now borne fruit, allowing Israel to get through the financial crisis while still retaining its high.. This time around, the venue is central London, where Assange, messiah of the nerds, has picked up two yellow and blue discs from one Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss bank Julius Baer who ran its Cayman Island wealth��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 16.06.10
But thats for time to tell, and dependent on a number of factors such as how well she is able to hold her flock together, control intra-party squabbling as well as keep her own famed caprice in check. In the final analysis, Mamata cherishes a... The current stance of monetary policy is one where the RBI is slowly moving towards a neutral rate with small rate hikes, from which it may be possible to loosen policy if and when required. The statements by the finance minister��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 23.03.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. MAINSTREAM WATERS. There seems to be some folks who are gobsmacked by the kind of money thats running between the wickets after the announcement of two new teams joining the Indian Premier League (IPL) menagerie. To make their.. Catching the money market off guard on Friday evening, the central bank upped key policy rates���the repo and the reverse repo rates���by 25 basis points to 5% and 3.5%, respectively.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 01.09.10
JUG SURAIYA. HINDUSTAN TIMES. OLD WINE IN AN OLD BOTTLE; AYODHYA 2010; THUMBS UP NOW; THE PILE-UP RIGHT AHEAD - MURAD ALI BAIG,; TALK ABOUT A GENERATION - MANOJ K. JHA. THE INDIAN EXPRESS.. And Mondays Foreign Trade Policy review demonstrated that we havent made the slightest effort to shrug off the sops for exporters culture.. Therefore, RBI will have to decide on whether or not to raise rates in September. This, in��.
RBI policy review: Central bank keeps key rates on hold, affirms accomodative.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept interest rates on hold at 7.50% on Tuesday, choosing to wait longer to assess inflationary pressures before making its next move, and to give banks more time to adjust lending rates to reflect previous rate cuts.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.08.10
Obviously China treats Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed area and refuses to acknowledge Indias sovereignty over the State; this policy is now reflected in its decision not to grant Lt Gen Jaswal a visa... HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. JUST BRING THEM ON. The Commonwealth Games preparations may be in a shambles, but we are on top of the security issue. For some time now, people have been gnashing their teeth and beating their breasts over the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 18.03.10
THE ECONOMIC TIMES. FISCAL CORRECTION WILL HELP COOL PRICES; FEW POLICY OPTIONS ON INFLATION; THE MAYAWATI GARLAND; LEARN TO KNOW THE NOW and TURN WISER - VITHAL C NADKARNI; THIS WILL RESURRECT... They have also proposed sanctions that would cover Irans Central Bank and a number of firms and individuals linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, apart from its shipping, insurance and banking industries.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 16.04.10
This question keeps on popping up time and again though the Third Front Governments have not lasted long in the past mainly because of the inherent contradictions. Once again there are talks of.. Economic growth continues to be robust and, even as credit disbursements by banks seem to be gaining momentum, there is expectation all round that the RBI would hike its policy interest rates and, probably, the Cash Reserve Ratio as well. The RBI will also articulate��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 12.11.09
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. THATS THE WAY OUT. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put a date to Indias exit strategy after the financial meltdown: 2010. Some time in the next year the government should begin slowing.. Not much unlike its quarterly review of annual monetary policy of July, 2009, the Reserve Bank of India in its second quarterly credit policy announced on October 27 kept almost all its monetary control rates unchanged save a small hike��.
Haqs Musings: Are India and Pakistan Failed States?
Apparently, no inconvenient truths are allowed to mar what Foreign Affairs, the foreign policy journal of Americas elite, has declared a roaring capitalist success story. Add Bollywoods... Analysts said managing borrowing in 2010/11 will be more challenging than in the current year, as the governments cash levels were low and the central bank has limited tools to help with the ramped up borrowing in 2010/11. Further.. Heres a report from Hindustan Times: