The MPC raised the key lending rate or the repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40%, Governor Shaktikanta Das said.
The gains came on the back of news from Tuesday that the European Union would slap new sanctions on Russia for waging war on Ukraine
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also proposed that Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, and two other major banks be disconnected from the SWIFT international banking payment system.
The preceding month had witnessed record outbound shipments of $42.2 billion
Policy support can increase edible oil production
May soon officially declare war on Ukraine: US, Western officials
The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, has drafted new proposals for sanctions, which could include a phased-in embargo on Russian oil
A member of Iran's syndicate of car parts producers says Iranian producers have an opportunity to export their wares to a Russian manufacturer, state media reported.
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Russian forces Tuesday began storming the steel mill that represented the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukrainian defenders said
Ukrainian defenders of a steel plant in Mariupol say Russian forces have started to storm the the last pocket of resistance. The move comes almost two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military not to storm the plant, but rather block it off. The deputy commander of the Azov Regiment that is holed up in the Azovstal steel plant confirmed that Russian forces have started to storm the plant on Tuesday. That comes after some civilians escaped the plant over the weekend in a U.N.-assisted evacuation effort.
Both benchmark contracts rose more than 40 cents on Monday and extended those gains modestly in early trade on Tuesday
US space agency NASA and Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos have been the two largest partners on the ISS for the last three decades.
Vinay Kwatra also answered a question on oil imports from Russia, highlighting that India's imports from the country are a small fraction of what the rest of the world imports from Russia
The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for June delivery added 48 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to settle at 105.17 US dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange
"Russia has already been enacting covert mobilisation and is preparing to announce a mass mobilisation in the near future," Kyrylo Budanov from Ukraine Chief Intelligence Directorate said
The UN human rights office said on Monday that the death toll of civilians killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 had exceeded 3,000 people
Inflation is pushing central banks to shrink their balance sheets as they hike interest rates, adding a new risk for the world economy hit by war and lockdowns
ONGC subsidiary OVL derives significant value from its oilfields in that country
A Finnish nuclear energy company said Monday it has decided to terminate with immediate effect a contract with Russian state energy corporation Rosatom for the delivery of a nuclear power plant