-The Indian Express There were 5,917 instances of bank fraud in 2017-18 as against 5,076 cases the previous year, show the data released Friday. Fraudsters have looted Rs 41,167.7 crore from the banking system in 2017-18, a sharp jump of 72 per cent from Rs 23,933 crore the previous year, despite “stringent monitoring and vigilance”, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). There were 5,917 instances of bank...
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Forex reserves fall most since 2011 -Kartik Goyal
-Livemint.com/ Bloomberg Foreign Exchange Reserves dropped by $5.14 billion in the seven days ended October 12, the biggest weekly decline since November 2011, as the RBI stepped up action to prop up the rupee Mumbai: India made the biggest dent in its Foreign Exchange Reserves in seven years as the central bank stepped up action to prop up Asia’s worst-performing currency. Reserves dropped by $5.14 billion in the seven days ended October 12,...
More »The Indian economy's changing growth constraints -Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
-Livemint.com The job of policy strategists is always to identify the binding constraints to growth and then try to figure out which policies will help ease them Economists of a certain vintage will remember the old development models in which rapid economic growth was held back by three key constraints. The first was the savings constraint. A poor country such as India could not save enough of its annual national income to sustain...
More »India's forex reserves are falling $2 billion per week as RBI fights to save sliding rupee -Mahua Venkatesh
-ThePrint.in The dip in forex reserves has been due to the intervention of the central bank to arrest the slide in the rupee. New Delhi: India’s Foreign Exchange Reserves have fallen by about $2 billion per week for seven weeks now but top government officials said they were monitoring the trend and there is no cause for alarm. Economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said funds would be raised through foreign currency non-repatriable...
More »Goa's iron ore reserves may exhaust within ten years, opine expert
-PTI Being a strategic mineral resource, indigenous production can save the much-needed foreign exchange, in which laterites can play a significant role, like bauxite, which is mined from south Goa. Panaji (Goa): Iron ore reserves in Goa may exhaust in another 10 years and if there are too many companies involved in mining and the pace of excavation is high, the stocks may not even last for five years, an expert said...
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