The stress in the banking sector, which mirrors the stress in the corporate sector, has to be dealt with in order to revive credit growth.
India's software and engineering exports may take a hit and the country may also face larger capital outflows.
Better supply management and check on hoarding should be able to prevent food price spikes
Private sector output in India expanded for the first time in 8 months in February as slump in the services sector moderated and manufacturing grew at a stronger pace, an HSBC survey said.
The recovery in manufacturing is still likely to prove "protracted" given the lingering structural constraints.
For India, Fitch Ratings has 'BBB-' rating.
In the latter half of the year, there would be some economic recovery and return to normal business conditions.
RBI's latest rate cut is positive for the economy.
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In New York, the US dollar gained against most rivals on last Friday, as a week of data reassured investors that December's dismal employment report wasn't indicative of a broader shift in the economy.
The minister said she has already taken up the matter with the Finance Ministry.
The Indian Met Department has predicted a below normal monsoon.
The Reserve Bank had kept policy rate unchanged in its review on April 7.
'People who come from IMF-World Bank backgrounds have no dynamism at all,' Subramanian Swamy said.
'Helicopter drop' was first proposed as an alternative to quantitative easing.
Some accounts can be revived by rescheduling loans, which the RBI envisages to do once the norms get finalised after the public discussion.
To contain rising bad loans, the Reserve Bank on Tuesday proposed a slew of measures, including incentives to lenders for coming together and tackling an account timely and penalising borrowers with higher interest rates in future for not cooperating for a resolution.
Raghuram Rajan, who was Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry before taking over as RBI Governor on September 4, is scheduled to announce the next mid-quarter policy review on December 18.
Costlier fruits and vegetables such as onions and tomatoes pushed retail inflation to a nine-month high of 11.24 per cent in November, making it harder for the Reserve Bank to lower interest rates.
The country's merchandise deficit narrowed to $9.2 billion in November, but exports growth eased to 5.9 percent from 13.5 percent in October, government data showed.
The Reserve Bank of India hiked key interest rates by 0.25 per cent each in the last two reviews to tame inflation.
With the economy growing at its slowest rate in a decade, India's banking system is facing rising levels of stressed loans, with $100 billion, or about 10 percent of the total, categorised as bad or restructured.
Banks have issues with their balance sheet profiles, say PSB executives.
He cautioned however that these are the early signs and one should not start celebrating.
Bankers believe rates will remain high in near future.
Most economists feel the RBI has room for a 25-basis point cut, having met inflation targets comfortably
India has expressed concern over the hike in visa fee by the US, saying it is "discriminatory" and largely affects Indian IT professionals.
RBI will be cautious easing rates further given oil price uncertainties
Reserve Bank will hold its first bi-monthly monetary policy review for 2016-17 on Tuesday.
Other members of the high-level advisory committee are former RBI Deputy Governor Usha Thorat, former Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman C B Bhave, and Nachiket M Mor, Director of the Central Board of Directors of RBI, Governor Raghuram Rajan said.
Retail inflation measured by the consumer price index has risen sharply across food and non-food constituents, including services, keeping inflation expectations high, the Reserve Bank of India said in its Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy 2013-14.
The committee had eminent people on it and making any allegations like this is 'outlandish', Sitharaman said.
Expectations are high. There is a little bit of euphoria in India, says RBI governor.
Rajan sees banks passing on the benefit of lower rates regime to customers.
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday said the government's target of reducing the current account deficit (CAD) to $70 billion or 3.7 per cent of the GDP in 2013-14 is "imminently reachable".
India's exports shrank in January for the 14th straight month on continued weak demand from Europe
India needs more specialists with domain knowledge and experience.
Inflation in pulses, vegetables and cereals was higher in Jan.
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday said the recent rally in the rupee is comforting but said the currency has not yet achieved stability which will only be reached when he stops keeping a "minute-by-minute" track of the unit.
Financial services firm AnandRathi analysed the key points of the policy soon after it was announced.
Policymakers have been grappling with high prices for food staples such as onions and potatoes even after the central bank raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point in each of its previous two reviews.
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