There was further accretion of $452 million during the week ending November 14 taking the country's foreign exchange reserves to record high of $93.663 billion.
India's forex reserves fell for the fourth week in a row by $520 million to $139 billion for the week ended May 20, 2005.
The Reserve Bank of India is not in favour of limiting the build-up of foreign exchange reserves, now at over $93 billion, as the country would require them for higher economic growth, Usha Thorat, executive director at the central bank, said.
The government on Wednesday tightened external commercial borrowing norms in the wake of softer interest regime and burgeoning foreign exchange reserves, now at over $92 billion.
IMF chief Horst Kohler, who is in Dubai to World Bank Group and IMF meetings, did not comment on the issue of BPCL and HPCL divestment.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $692 million at $86,255 million during the week ended August 29.
The country's foreign exchange reserves vaulted beyond $140 billion mark as inflows into the kitty swelled by $2.87 billion for the week ended March 11 due to heavy intervention in the market by Reserve Bank of India.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $148 million at $85.563 billion, a record high level, during the week ended August 22.
The country's foreign exchange reserves continued to surge ahead and for the third week in a row crossed the $1.5 billion mark.
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday hoped that international crude oil prices will ease in the near future and said India was in a comfortable position to sustain prices at around $50 a barrel.
India's foreign exchange reserves swelled by over $2.6 billion to touch $135.65 billion for the week ended February 25.
After recording a decline in the previous week, India's foreign exchange reserves jumped by $869 million at $82.774 billion during the week ended July 4.\n\n\n\n
India's foreign exchange reserves declined by $215 million at $81.905 billion during the week ended June 27, 2003. \n\n\n\n
The Institute of Economic Growth has forecast a depletion in the foreign exchange reserves to $79 billion in August mainly due to over $4 billion dollar payout of Resurgent India Bonds.
India's foreign exchange reserves surged ahead in the first week of the new fiscal following fresh accretion of over $1 billion to move past the record levels of $112 billion during the week ended April 2, 2004.
Foreign exchange reserves climbed further by $ 402 million to a new record high of $109.998 billion during the week ended March 19 from $109.596 billion a week ago.
India's foreign exchange reserves continued to rise to record levels with fresh inflows of $588 million to touch $77.598 billion during the week ended May 2.
Continuing their upward march due to fresh inflows, India's foreign exchange reserves have further surged ahead by $711 million at $75.751 billion during the week ended April 11.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $235 million at $75.040 billion during the week ended April 4.
India's foreign exchange reserves surged ahead by a record inflow of over $1.7 billion to touch $103.82 billion during the week ended January 9, 2004.
With an inflow of $2 billion, the highest ever in recent times, India's foreign exchange reserves zoomed past the $90 billion mark for the week ended October 10.
The foreign exchange reserves of the country moved up further by $337 million to a new record high of $66,925 million during the week ended November 29.\n\n\n\n
India should accelerate the pace of reduction of customs duty rather than merely carry on building up the foreign exchange reserves, according to Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former finance secretary and one of the authors of India's economic reforms.
Comfortable with the rupee stable and foreign exchange reserves of over $85 billion, the government is planning to prepay foreign loans worth over $3 billion to reduce its interest burden and fiscal gap.\n\n\n\n
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday decided to leave benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 per cent but maintained an accommodative stance as the economy faces heat of the second Covid wave.
Government is also will also enter into an agreement with Japan for a $50 billion swap.
India's foreign exchange reserves swelled by $343 million to record high of $81.672 billion, during the week ended June 6.\n\n\n\n
Inflows of hot money or short-term funds by way of non-resident Indian deposits are not expected
The Centre is now in the process of identifying the loans it intends to prepay, including some bilateral loans, and these would be finalised in a month
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