Category: Economy

US President Donald Trump’s latest jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, trivialising India’s contribution to Afghanistan and asking India to shoulder greater responsibility, was uncalled

In bad news for labour market in India, the estimated unemployment rate rose to a 27-month high of 7.38% in the month of December 2018

Fund allocations made under the government’s Start-up India initiative show that the ambitious scheme is far from being a success. The start-up fund of funds,

In May 2014, there was an air of strong optimism; perhaps, India’s time had come. The country’s Prime Minister (PM) reputed for action, promised a

The government’s flip-flop on its policy on marketplace e-commerce companies seems to be an indication that the country is heading towards a general election and the power of lobbying

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has a word of caution for governments propagating farm- loan waiver. “Any generalised kind of write-off obviously has an adverse effect

Even as States are once again vying to announce loan waivers to help farmers, government data suggest that such efforts have failed to mitigate farm

Losses in the recent elections to the assemblies of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan have given the BJP a jolt. The party had misjudged the

The clarified norms on foreign direct investment (FDI) in e-commerce have not impacted the stability and predictability of the country’s regulatory environment as there is no change

Policymakers will have to bust recessionary fears with more than just monetary policy Stock markets across the world had very little reason to celebrate in

As many domestic and international experts have speculated, job creation worldwide is less now because of robots (artificial intelligence) and a decline in global GDP

The paralysis triggered by the US government shutdown could have unexpected consequences, such as muddying economic statistics just as the markets are extremely reactive to any whiff