General Economic Updates

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Ask it to do the same for 6.18 lakh crores INR, which is the EXTERNAL govt debt that according to you is over 700 billon USD.

Are you simply confused or misinformed?

India's foreign debt jumps 10% to $736.3 bn; external debt-to-GDP also rises

India's external debt surged to USD 736.3 billion by March 2025, a 10% increase from the previous year, driven by currency market volatilities and the appreciation of the US dollar. Long-term debt constituted a major portion, while the share of short-term debt decreased, though its ratio to...

m.economictimes.com

Foreign debt climbs: India’s external debt rises 10% to $736.3 billion in FY25; debt-to-GDP edges up to 19.1% - The Times of India

India Business News: India’s external debt rose 10% to $736.3 billion at the end of March 2025 from $668.8 billion a year earlier, according to data released by the Reserv.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

https://www.business-standard.com/economy/news/india-s-external-debt-rises-to-736-billion-19-1-of-gdp-says-rbi-125062701306_1.html

 

[Rationale]

Are you simply confused or misinformed?

India's foreign debt jumps 10% to $736.3 bn; external debt-to-GDP also rises

India's external debt surged to USD 736.3 billion by March 2025, a 10% increase from the previous year, driven by currency market volatilities and the appreciation of the US dollar. Long-term debt constituted a major portion, while the share of short-term debt decreased, though its ratio to...

m.economictimes.com

Foreign debt climbs: India’s external debt rises 10% to $736.3 billion in FY25; debt-to-GDP edges up to 19.1% - The Times of India

India Business News: India’s external debt rose 10% to $736.3 billion at the end of March 2025 from $668.8 billion a year earlier, according to data released by the Reserv.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

https://www.business-standard.com/economy/news/india-s-external-debt-rises-to-736-billion-19-1-of-gdp-says-rbi-125062701306_1.html

Do you not understand the difference between TOTAL external debt and external debt owed by the GOVERNMENT ? Most of India's external debt ( more than 90%) is owed by non-government entities. The Indian GOVERNMENT has only around 70 bn of foreign debt and it can always print money, if required, to pay its local currency debt. Therefore, government finances are quite strong, which is why the government recently announced a huge cut in indirect taxes to offset any negative impact of the US tariffs on GDP growth.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Do you not understand the difference between TOTAL external debt and external debt owed by the GOVERNMENT ? Most of India's external debt ( more than 90%) is owed by non-government entities. The Indian GOVERNMENT has only around 70 bn of foreign debt and it can always print money, if required, to pay its local currency debt. Therefore, government finances are quite strong, which is why the government recently announced a huge cut in indirect taxes to offset any negative impact of the US tariffs on GDP growth.

Isn't that what I've been saying India's external debt of $736 billion?

Isn't the Indian Government the guarantor of all of India's external debt.

 

[Rationale]

Isn't that what I've been saying India's external debt of $736 billion?

Isn't the Indian Government the guarantor of all of India's external debt.

Lol, you are really ignorant. Why will the government guarantee private sector debt ?

If Tata's US subsidiary or even Coke USA borrows money from outside the US, is it guaranteed by the US government ?

Similarly, if Coke's Indian subsidiary or even Tata Motors India borrows from outside India, why will the Indian goverment have any responsibility for it ?

 

[Fatman17]

Weak reforms fuel Pakistan’s energy black hole
https://www.dawn.com/news/1940070?utm_source=whatsapp

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Do you not understand the difference between TOTAL external debt and external debt owed by the GOVERNMENT ? Most of India's external debt ( more than 90%) is owed by non-government entities. The Indian GOVERNMENT has only around 70 bn of foreign debt and it can always print money, if required, to pay its local currency debt. Therefore, government finances are quite strong, which is why the government recently announced a huge cut in indirect taxes to offset any negative impact of the US tariffs on GDP growth.

I am talking about the debt owed by the Government of India which is made up of external and internal debt amounting $2.1 trillion in March 2025 and expected to be $2.4 trillion March 2026.

This is what the Indian Government has confirmed and you're only interested in external debt of India owed only by the Government of India, ignoring the internal debt owed by the Government of India.

Look at the document title again.



This $2.4 trillion figure does not included non-Governmental internal and external debt. Including that would bring the figure to $3.1 trillion. The document clearly states that the Indian Government is liable to repay the $2.4 trillion (internal and external) debt.

https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/rec/annex9.pdf

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

Weak reforms fuel Pakistan’s energy black hole
https://www.dawn.com/news/1940070?utm_source=whatsapp

weak reform fuels for us (commoners)
people in related private and public sector made their careers!



without ever actually achieving, anything, worst of all, now such people will make our society now (because they will consider it obligatory to have children and give them same brought up as theirs, this is brutal murder as mass scale!)


not good, it is getting harder to distinguish if future is dark or dark is the past!


whole rythm and cycle in our society has been tethered, I fear for my and my family's future.


Kids having grown up in such a family/society will only become 'hounds' and 'wolves'!

sorry! dont ban me, I see things as they really are!

 

[Fatman17]

weak reform fuels for us (commoners)
people in related private and public sector made their careers!



without ever actually achieving, anything, worst of all, now such people will make our society now (because they will consider it obligatory to have children and give them same brought up as theirs, this is brutal murder as mass scale!)


not good, it is getting harder to distinguish if future is dark or dark is the past!


whole rythm and cycle in our society has been tethered, I fear for my and my family's future.


Kids having grown up in such a family/society will only become 'hounds' and 'wolves'!

sorry! dont ban me, I see things as they really are!

Be careful

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@Pakistan Space Agency

PSA sb

I am talking about the debt owed by the Government of India which is made up of external and internal debt amounting $2.1 trillion in March 2025 and expected to be $2.4 trillion March 2026.

Most of the USD 2.1 trillion government debt is denominated in local currency. Only about USD 70 billion (RS 618000 crores) is in foreign currency.

USD 736 billion is the total debt owed by Government as well as private sector. Against this the govt and private sector also hold almost USD 700 billion worth of foreign exchange.

Regards

 

[Rationale]

I am talking about the debt owed by the Government of India which is made up of external and internal debt amounting $2.1 trillion in March 2025 and expected to be $2.4 trillion March 2026.

This is what the Indian Government has confirmed and you're only interested in external debt of India owed only by the Government of India, ignoring the internal debt owed by the Government of India.

Look at the document title again.

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This $2.4 trillion figure does not included non-Governmental internal and external debt. Including that would bring the figure to $3.1 trillion. The document clearly states that the Indian Government is liable to repay the $2.4 trillion (internal and external) debt.

https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/rec/annex9.pdf

Yeah, except that it is not in dollars. All except 70 bn USD of that debt is in Indian rupees and the Indian government can just print all those rupees and pay off the debt overnight if it wants to.

Non-government debt is not the government's concern. Individuals and companies who have borrowed it are solely responsible to repay it.

 

[Fatman17]

Crop devastation
https://www.dawn.com/news/1940421?utm_source=whatsapp

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@Fatman17 sb

Terrible catastrophe in both Punjabs. There will be huge crop losses apart from the loss of lives.

Regards

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

@Fatman17 sb

Terrible catastrophe in both Punjabs. There will be huge crop losses apart from the loss of lives.

Regards

its as if such occurrences have already been decided (once every 3 to 4 years)

like inefficiency losses in electricity generation, one could calculate the 'assumed inefficiency'

likewise,

seems systems in both countries are 'designed' to have their own catastrophes made to appear as 'part of the system failures' as against 'failure of the system'!


very delicate and deep work, whoever has made that!

and very oddly, dont seem to hurt wealth generation of a particular class!

(landlords, politicians, bankers, judges!)

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@Mighty_Dragon_Strike

True. It will be the poor who will suffer. The biggies won't- in fact they even find ways of benefitting- aapda mein awsar (opportunities in calamities) as they say in India.

Regards

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

@Mighty_Dragon_Strike

True. It will be the poor who will suffer. The biggies won't- in fact they even find ways of benefitting- aapda mein awsar (opportunities in calamities) as they say in India.

Regards

who needs hell!

thats all I can say, idea of hell dwarves the calamities people of South Asia have endured since 1857..

my great grand father, got martyred (hanged till death by the tree) by the English, when he fought for Queen Rani Jhansi.. his wealth was plundered and looted by them

his only son, saved his life by going to IRaq (my grand father!)

cant describe the amount of love I have for them!