Month: September 2017

Rahul’s right: we are not generating jobs In a speech recently in the US, Rahul Gandhi acknowledged that the UPA lost the 2014 polls because

Expectation of a further rise in retail inflation may preclude the Reserve Bank of India from cutting the policy repo rate in the upcoming monetary

Former finance minister Yashwant Sinha continued his no holds barred criticism of the government’s economic management, questioning the defence put by BJP leaders, including his

Amid the raging debate about the state of the economy, NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar spoke to TOI about its prospects. Kumar, who has taken

Shortly after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, without taking names, described him as a “job applicant@80”, senior BJP leader and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha responded

Former finance minister Yashwant Sinha has been in a combative mood over the last couple of days, starting with his opinion piece Wednesday in The

Decades of crony capitalism and piggy-banking on public sector banks have come to an end. Yashwant Sinha’s recent article (‘I need to speak up now‘,

Kapil Sibal: The PM in attempting to usher in the era of a cashless society, has rendered poor people cashless. The economy is in deep

The world economic crisis of 2008 is still not over, Y.V. Reddy says. Coalition governments in India have produced better economic growth rates in the

Amidst expectations of a stimulus package to boost India’s flagging growth prospects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set up an economic advisory council. What sort

The Economic Advisory Council and other policymakers have their task cut out In an admission that something is very wrong with the economy, the Centre