The unchanged repo rate at 5.25% brings no immediate relief for home loan borrowers as there would be no immediate decrease in EMIs. Fixed-rate borrowers will see no direct impact unless they choose to refinance or switch lenders. With the 125-bps rate cut over past year, borrowers with a ₹50-lakh home loan over 20 years could save ₹9.29 lakh interest.

What does an unchanged repo rate mean for home loan borrowers?

RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra announced an upward revision in India's real GDP growth projections for the first half of FY27. Projection for Q1 has been revised to 6.9%, up from 6.7% projected in December 2025, and for Q2, it has been revised from 6.8% to 7%. The full-year growth forecast for 2025-26 was also raised to 7.4% from 7.3%.

RBI announces upward revision in real GDP growth estimates for FY27

Benchmark index Sensex slipped by more than 350 points to 82,957.87 on Friday after the RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25%. Nifty also fell by 130 points to 25,504.85 following the announcement. In the last Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in December 2025, the central bank reduced the repo rate by 25 bps.

Sensex dips 350 points after RBI keeps repo rate unchanged

RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday announced the central bank's raised CPI inflation forecast for Q1 and Q2 FY27 at 4% and 4.2%, respectively. The slight upward revision in inflation outlook was mainly due to the rise in prices of precious metals, Malhotra said. Excluding precious metals, the underlying inflation pressures remain muted, he added.

RBI raises inflation forecast for Q1 FY27 to 4%

Jammu and Kashmir's per capita income grew at a compound annual growth rate of 8.81% between April 2019 and March 2025, according to the J&K government’s Economic Survey 2025-26. This was higher than that of Himachal (6.54%), Delhi (6.74%), and Punjab (7.46%), the Economic Survey, tabled in the Assembly on Thursday said. Notably, Article 370 was also abrogated in 2019.

J&K leads northern states in per capita income growth since 2019

Prices of gold suffered a decline on Friday. In Mumbai, 24-carat gold is retailing at approximately ₹1,52,180 per 10 grams, according to NDTVProfit. In Kolkata, the rate is ₹1,51,970. In Delhi, 24-carat gold rate currently stands at ₹1,51,910. The rate is ₹1,52,620 in Chennai, while in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, the rates are ₹1,52,420 and ₹1,52,300 respectively.

Gold price drops, list shows prices in Indian cities

RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra has announced the MPC's decision to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% and to maintain a 'neutral' monetary policy stance. In the last MPC meeting in December 2025, the central bank reduced the repo rate by 25 bps. Since February 2025, RBI has cut the repo rate by 125 basis points to support growth. 

RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 5.25%      

Pinterest has fired two engineers for creating a software tool to identify which employees lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts which affected 700 employees. The tool reportedly scanned Slack and other communication platforms to alert staff when coworkers' profiles were deactivated. CEO Bill Ready said employees should consider a job elsewhere if they're working against company's direction.

Pinterest fires 2 staffers for creating tool to track who got fired amid firm's 700 layoffs

Mobile advertising platform InMobi plans to raise over $500 million in an initial public offering (IPO), Moneycontrol reported. The company is in advanced talks with eight investment banks, including Kotak Mahindra Capital, Axis Capital, Jefferies and JPMorgan, for the IPO. It is targeting an IPO valuation between $4 billion and $5 billion.

InMobi plans $500 million IPO at $4-5 billion valuation: Report

Prozo has unveiled a 1.5 lakh sqft enterprise-grade multi-client facility at Horizon Industrial Parks, Gurugram, Haryana. This is now Prozo's largest multi-client warehouse in the country and its sixth multi-client facility in Haryana. The facility is engineered to handle complex and high-volume operations for enterprise, retail and D2C brands. 