The Reserve Bank of India [Get Quote] on Wednesday evening increased the repo rate -- the rate at which the central bank's lends short-term money against government securities to banks -- by 25 basis points to 8 per cent.
The move is aimed at controlling runaway inflation. The reverse repo rate, has however, been left untouched.
This is the sixth repo rate hike since June 2006.
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