The Reserve Bank of India launched its 49th round of order books, inventories and capacity utilisation survey (OBICUS) of the manufacturing sector on April 16, 2020. The survey covers the reference period between January-March 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The OBICUS ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the second set of measures to preserve financial stability and help put money in the hands of the needy and disadvantaged during the extended lockdown due to the COVID-19 crisis. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The move by the ...

Recently, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has suggested RBI to adopt the concept of Helicopter Money to help state governments tide over the current crisis and kick start economic activity in India. It is aimed to rising concerns over economic crisis that has been triggered by the ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the realisation period of export proceeds and Ways and Means Advance (WMA) limit of state governments. Further, the central bank has provided relief to the banking sector’s capital requirements. These steps have been taken to cushion the economic impact ...

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stated that the schemes for the merger of 10 state-run banks into four lenders will come into force from 1 April. RBI also stated that the branches of merging banks will operate as of the banks in which the banks have been amalgamated. The banks sought to defer the ...

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made a proposal to write-down Additional Tier-1 (AT-1) bonds as part of the SBI-led restructuring package for Yes Bank. AT-1 bonds are a type of unsecured, perpetual bonds that banks issue to shore up their core capital base to meet the Basel-III norms. AT-1 bonds ...

Reserve Bank of India revised exposure limits for urban cooperative banks (UCBs) to a single borrower and a group of borrowers to 15 per cent and 25 percent, respectively, of tier-1 capital. RBI had earlier permitted UCBs to have exposures up to 15 per cent and 40 per cent of their capital funds ...

Reserve Bank of India announced the setting up of a Digital Payments Index. This index, the RBI says would help capture the extent of digitisation of payments effectively. The DPI would be based on multiple parameters and shall reflect accurately the penetration and deepening of various digital ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept repo rate unchanged for the second consecutive time at 5.15 per cent and reverse repo rate at 4.90 per cent in its sixth bi-monthly monetary policy meet. It also decided to continue with its accommodative stance as long as it was necessary to revive growth. ...

Union Cabinet approved amendments to the Banking Regulation Act to bring cooperative banks under the regulatory mechanism of Reserve Bank of India. The government has taken this move in the wake of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank crisis. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...