Day: February 4, 2018

India’s trade scenario remains uncertain, especially because its export growth has been far lower than expected. In the past, the sluggish global economy had proved

Since Casablanca’s cult transcends generations, you could easily use one of its immortal lines to describe what the NDA government’s last Budget has done to

The Union Budget presented on February 1 had some fascinating and unexpected aspects. First was the lack of defence spending, which upset our strategic experts.

Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist at Crisil,  the Indian arm of one of the world’s biggest rating agency Standard & Poor’s, talks to Pawan Bali about the various

On February 1, 2018, the finance minister during his Budget speech declared, “I am pleased to announce two major initiatives as part of ‘Ayushman Bharat’…

Rupa Rege Nitsure Against the backdrop of India achieving the lowest growth in the past five years in 2017-18 (FY18) and posting a sustained fall

This government’s last full year budget was entirely predictable in parts. But it also threw up a couple of surprises. First, the predictable parts. Finance