As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, the following changes have been made in the extant directions to provide operational flexibility and ease compliance burden on Exporters, Importers and Merchanting Traders:

Today, the Reserve Bank released data relating to India’s International Investment Position for end-June 2025[1]. Key Features of India’s IIP in end-June 2025: • Net claims of non-residents on India declined by US$ 16.4 billion during Q1:2025-26 and stood at US$ 312.8 billion as at end-June 2025. It was mainly due to higher rise in Indian residents’ overseas financial assets (US$ 47.8 billion) as compared to the foreign-owned assets in India (US$ 31.4 billion) (Table 1).

The stock of external debt at end-June 2025 as well as revised data for earlier quarters are set out in Statements I (IMF format ) and II (old format). The major developments relating to India’s external debt as at end-June 2025 are presented below. Highlights • At end-June 2025, India’s external debt was placed at US$ 747.2 billion, an increase of US$ 11.2 billion over its level at end-March 2025 (Table 1).