The Repo Rate Hike: Inflation Gave the Cover, the Rupee Gave the Reason

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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence RBI Policy Decoded The Repo Rate Hike: Inflation Gave the Cover, the Rupee Gave the Reason The RBI raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent on 7 October 2026. With the rupee at ₹96.78 to the dollar, the Fed at 3.75–4.00 percent and bank credit growing near 18 percent, the fuller story is bigger than August CPI of 4.8 percent. The Reserve Bank of India raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent on 7 October 2026. It is the first hike since February 2023, and the stance has moved from neutral to calibrated tightening. The rate decision was unanimous. The Governor cited inflation. The Monetary Policy Committee said the inflation outlook is no longer as comfortable as it was last year, and near-term rate cuts were taken off the table. That is the official story, and it is not wrong. But it is incomplete. Look at what surrounds the decision: a rupee near its record...
Sweetest language tag for Bengali?
TNN, Apr 22, 2010

KOLKATA: The Bengali New Year couldn’t have started on a sweeter note. If a message circulating on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook is to be believed, Bengali has been voted the sweetest language in the world.

Conducted by Unesco, the vote ranks Spanish and Dutch as the second and third sweetest tongues respectively. Even though Twitter and Facebook users have started celebrating, there was yet no official confirmation from Unesco which conducted the online voting a couple of months back.

Messages and postings like “Joy Bangla”, “Proud to be a Bengali” and “Banglar Joy” have flooded social networking sites. Celebratory messages are being exchanged, though some felt it could be premature. Rahul Ray, who came across the news on Twitter four days ago, was ecstatic. “If so many people are talking about it, this has to be true. There can’t be any doubt that Bengali is a sweet language. Now, it has been accepted that it is indeed the sweetest,” said Ray.

According to twitter messages, the formal announcement could come on Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary in May. “There is no doubt that Bengali is a sweet language,” said author Dibyendu Palit

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