India's forex reserves record sharpest fall of over 17 bln USD in 7 days

NEW DELHI, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- India's foreign exchange reserves fell by 17.761 billion U.S. dollars to 657.892 billion U.S. dollars during the week ended Nov. 15, according to the official data released by the country's central bank the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday.

This was the sharpest decline in the country's forex reserves ever since the RBI began releasing the weekly data in 1998, said an online r