MUMBAI: India’s central bank kept interests rate on hold Tuesday, resisting government pressure for a fourth cut of the year and saying the country’s economic recovery was “still work in progress.”

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the benchmark repo rate—the level at which it lends to commercial banks—would remain at 7.25 percent as analysts had expected.

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