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India's foreign exchange reserves fell for the second consecutive week, registering a decline of $423 million for the week ended May 6, 2005.
Bolstered by heavy inflows, India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $515 million, crossing the $119 billion mark.
Foreign currency assets, which are a major component of the overall reserves, rose by $646.4 million to $386.762 billion.
India's management of foreign exchange reserves has generally been in accordance with International Monetary Fund guidelines and comparable to global best practices.
Growth in India's gross domestic product for the June quarter of 2013-14, as well as for the entire 2014-15, was 4.7%.
India's foreign exchange reserves touched nearly $133 billion due to record buying by the central bank and revaluation of international currencies.
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.
Robust trade and overseas investment inflows along with revaluation of currencies propelled India's foreign exchange reserves to rise further by $1.56 billion to cross $125 billion mark during the week ended November 19.
Hit by the revaluation of international currencies, India's foreign exchange reserves dipped by a massive $1.16 billion for the week ended June 3, 2005.
India's gold holding in forex reserves rose to 560.3 tonnes by the end of March 2018.
India's foreign exchange reserves -- pegged at over $109 billion -- are not in plenty, RBI Deputy Governor K J Udeshi said on Friday.
After witnessing a rise in inflows for the past three weeks, India's foreign exchange reserves fell by $648 million to stand at $1,41,898 for the week ended April 22, 2005.
After witnessing only a marginal rise in inflows for three weeks, India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $1 billion to $142.54 billion for the week ended April 22, 2005.
India's foreign exchange reserves showed a marginal rise of $54 million during the week ended September 3 after witnessing a sharp decline of $1.370 billion in the previous week.
Recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also ruled out the possibility of India witnessing a repeat of the 1991 balance of payments crisis and reversing the path to globalisation of economy.
Foreign exchange reserves as a percentage of India's total external debt were 73 per cent at the end of December 2015.
India's foreign exchange reserves further rose by $328 million to cross the $121 billion mark for the week ended July 16.
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.
After witnessing a decline in the previous week, India's foreign exchange reserves grew by $671 million to cross the $120-billion mark for the week ended July 2.
Despite the government's hectic efforts to avoid voting on the no-confidence motion against Khan, the joint Opposition succeeded in its month-long efforts to oust Khan from the prime minister's office as 174 members of the 342-member National Assembly voted against him in the wee hours of Sunday after a day of high drama.
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.
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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
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.
India's rupee is likely to remain under pressure due to high prices of crude oil and other commodities, and may stabilise at around 79-80 against the US dollar in the near term, say experts amid limited headroom available with the Reserve Bank to check the weakening of the domestic currency. The currency has slumped over 5 per cent this year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent international crude oil prices soaring to a decade high. On Monday, rupee ended at a fresh all-time low of 78.34 (provisional) against the US dollar.
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 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.
With huge accumulated foreign exchange reserves at their disposal, developing countries, mainly India, China, Russia, Brazil and Mexico, are giving invaluable reverse aid to the United States, although it is not counted as aid.
The RBI has set up a panel to review ATM charges, and fees levied by banks.
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 surged by $685 million to touch $108.36 billion following fresh inflows and revaluation of the United States currency vis-a-vis other currencies for the week ended February 27.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $88 million to $141.54 billion for the week ended April 15, 2005.
India's foreign exchange reserves surged ahead with further accretion of $169 million due to fresh inflows and revaluation of the US currency vis-a-vis other currencies for the week ended February 20.\n\n\n\n
India's foreign exchange reserves surged further by $1.6 billion to cross the $106 billion mark for the week ended February 6.
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 fell by $14 million during the week ended August 13 after witnessing a rise of $1.01 billion a week earlier.
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 rose to $100.59 billion in the week ended December 26 from $100.04 billion the previous week, according to the Reserve Bank of India's weekly statistical supplement released in Mumbai on Saturday.
