India's foreign exchange reserves fell $9.94 billion during the week ending October 10, 2008 to $274 billion mainly because the Reserve Bank of India continued to sell dollars to check the steep depreciation of the rupee.
Foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.591 billion to touch $80.816 billion in the reporting week.
India's forex reserves dropped by $3.85 billion to $524.52 billion for the week ended October 21, the RBI said on Friday. The overall reserves had dropped by $4.50 billion to $528.37 billion in the previous reporting week, and have been declining for many months now. In October 2021, the country's forex kitty had reached an all-time high of $645 billion.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday continued its searches at places linked to Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara as part of the probe into alleged gold smuggling-linked money laundering case against Kannada actress Ranya Rao and others, official sources said.
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) $10 billion US dollar-rupee buy-sell swap auction for three years received bids worth $16.23 billion on Friday, reflecting robust demand amid persistent liquidity deficit in the banking system. This was the second swap auction by the central bank after it infused $5 billion via six month-swap on January 31.
India's foreign exchange reserves surged ahead by $698 million to race past the $96 billion mark for the week ended November 28, inching towards the $100 billion figure.
India's foreign exchange reserves grew marginally by $253 million to $141.45 billion for the week ended April 8, 2005.
After registering a rise of over $2 billion in the previous week, India's foreign exchange reserves increased by $962 million to cross the $91 billion mark in the week ended October 17.
After having declined for two consecutive weeks, India's foreign exchange reserves grew by $293 million to $282.84 billion compared to earlier week's $282.55-billion.
India's foreign exchange reserves declined by $4.56 billion to $282.79 billion for the week ended August 13, as against $287.35 billion the previous week due to a heavy dent in foreign currency assets.
The exemption of individual life and health insurance premiums from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) enables the insurance industry to make products affordable and attractive, said Ajay Seth, chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2025.
India's foreign exchange reserves crossed the $93 billion mark following a further rise of $613 million due to fresh inflows for the week ended November 7.
Record inflows of over $1.5 billion saw India's foreign exchange reserves cross $102.1 billion for the week ended January 2, 2004.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose further by $1.31 billion to cross $123 billion during the week ended November 12 due to huge overseas investment in stock market and trade inflows.
India's foreign exchange reserves fell further by $430 million at $118.89 billion during the week ended August 20 after witnessing a marginal dip of $14 million a week earlier.
India's foreign exchange reserves crossed the $77 billion mark, a record high, following fresh inflows during the week ended April 25.
India's foreign exchange reserves fell by $14 million during the week ended August 13 after witnessing a rise of $1.01 billion a week earlier.
After recording a rise of over $ 1.24 billion in the previous week, India's foreign exchange reserves declined by $142 million led by a fall in gold reserves for the week ended June 4.
India's foreign exchange reserves grew further by $899 million to touch $107.5 billion for the week ended February 13.
The country's foreign exchange reserves went up by $761 million to $104.998 billion in the period under review, according to Reserve Bank of India's weekly statistical supplement released in Mumbai on Saturday.
The surge in India's foreign exchange reserves continued with a further rise of $611 million to cross $118 billion for the week ended April 30.
After witnessing a decline in the previous week, India's foreign exchange reserves soared by over $1.24 billion to cross $119 billion, for the week ended May 28.
Declining for the third consecutive week, India's forex reserves dipped by $77 million to reach $635.83 billion for the week ended December 10, RBI data showed on Friday. In the previous week, the reserves had slid by $1.78 billion to $635.90 billion. In the reporting week ended December 10, the dip in the forex kitty was on account of a decline in foreign currency assets (FCA), a major component of the overall reserves.
After a fall last week, India's foreign exchange reserves have recorded a rise again and are nearing the $85 billion mark.
Gold reserves were up by $1.525 billion in the reporting week to $37.625 billion.
India's foreign exchange reserves witnessed a massive jump with a further accretion of 1.710 billion, a record rise in the current fiscal, to surge past the $95 billion mark for the week ended November 21.\n\n\n\n
India's foreign exchange reserves recorded one of the highest ever inflows of dollar -- $3.74 billion -- to cross the $130-billion mark during the week ended December 3, 2004
India's foreign exchange reserves crossed the $84 billion mark following record inflows during the week ending July 18, 2003.
India's forex reserves jumped $4.54 billion to a new all-time high of $648.7 billion for the week ended May 17, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. This is the third consecutive week of increase in the overall kitty, which had increased by $2.56 billion to $644.15 billion in the previous reporting week ended May 17.
The rise in reserves was $2.12 billion.
India's foreign exchange reserves continue to scale new heights and crossed the $79 billion mark following inflows of $666 million during the week ending May 17.\n\n\n\n
This is the longest winning streak for gold in the last three decades.
After witnessing a downward trend for the past two weeks, India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.01 billion to cross the $119 billion mark during the week ended August 6.
India's foreign exchange reserves continued their upward swing, crossing the $117 billion mark with further inflows of $1.53 billion for the week ended April 16.
India's forex reserves dropped by $4.85 billion to $532.66 billion as on September 30, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. The reserves, which have been dipping as the central bank deploys the kitty to defend the rupee amid pressures caused majorly by global developments, had declined by over $8.13 billion to $537.52 billion in the previous reporting week. In October 2021, the country's forex kitty had reached an all-time high of $645 billion.
Heavy investment inflows and revaluation of currencies led to a surge in the country's foreign exchange by a record $1.82 billion during the week ending November 26, 2004.
India's foreign exchange reserves -- pegged at over $109 billion -- are not in plenty, RBI Deputy Governor K J Udeshi said on Friday.
India's foreign exchange reserves surged ahead by $772 million to touch record levels of $109.13 billion even as gold reserves declined by $99 million for the week ended March 5.
India's foreign exchange reserves fell for the second consecutive week, registering a decline of $423 million for the week ended May 6, 2005.
India's foreign exchange reserve rose by $266 million during the week ending January 14, 2005, after a drop over $2 billion a week earlier.
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