Ira Dugal
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Ira Dugal
@dugalira
Financial Journalist. Views and tweets are entirely personal. Present: India Financial News Editor @Reuters. Past: BQ Prime, Mint, NDTV
Mumbai, India
Joined April 2012
- RBI brought back another 100 tonnes of gold reserves between March and September . About 60% of gold reserves now held domestically.
- Two Nobel prize winners, two former CEAs and the largest bank’s CEO. Only @PrannoyRoyNDTV can draw a panel like this together!An NDTV Global Townhall with Dr Prannoy Roy - tonight at 9. Do watch.
- I don’t understand why the government is belabouring this point. Outstanding oil bonds: Rs 1.3 lakh crore. What Govt earned from excise collections last year: Rs 3.35 lakh crore.Replying to @NDTVProfitIndiaBurdened by interest payments on oil bonds floated by UPA, says Finance Minister.
- And it’s finally happened. India to be included in JP Morgan’s global bond index starting June 2024. #Bignews
- Hmm because I would walk towards an ATM for cash and decide to take a loan instead? 🤔Grocery stores keep high frequency products like milk & bread deep inside the store so they can use them to cross sell other things while you locate milk & bread. Banks took their high frequency product : ATM and kept it outside the branch. I wonder if it was a bad decision.
- Wow! Retail investors to be allowed direct investment in g-secs via accounts at the RBI. RBI calls it "Retail direct."
- 20 years in journalism today 😊
- India forex reserves climb to $705 billion. - Up $12.6 billion for the week on valuation gains, inflows. Biggest weekly jump since mid-July 2023. - Up $87.6 billion so far this year. - And for those with a long memory, a far cry from the $275 billion in reserves on Aug 30,
- Professional Update: After 6 fabulous and eventful years, I will be moving on from BQ shortly. In a few weeks, I join Reuters as Editor - India Financial News. Thrilled and Excited. Wish me 🍀
- All business journalists should be asked to pass a math exam. Basic math.
- I cannot understand why a registered lease agreement can’t be used as address proof in a bank @HDFCBank_Cares @RBI How are you supposed to change address on Aadhar or drivers licence everytime you move. Many people live on rent in case banks haven’t realised.
- What is the math here? Rs 72,000 per year per family. 25 crore people to benefit, they said. Assume 5 in a family. So 5 crore families. So about Rs 3.6 lakh crore a year? (ASKING. NOT TELLING)Breaking: @RahulGandhi announces minimum guarantee income scheme/NYAY as a Cong election promise.. RS 72,000 per year to BPL families.. game-changer or a flawed promise? @IndiaToday
