Category: Economy

Successful demonetisation will help in raising revenues on sustained basis as more and more people will come under the tax net, says a World Bank

The latest print of data on economic output from the Central Statistics Office makes for sobering reading. While the government should take it as a

India’s GDP growth slumped to a two-year low of 6.1% in the January-to-March quarter from 7% in the third quarter of 2016-17. This shows a

Union minister Nitin Gadkari is spot on when he says farm loan waivers are not the answer to tackling rural distress. Making crop insurance more

Talks of Reserve Bank of India shifting back its policy stance to accommodative is gaining some ground even as not many are expecting the central

The growth of eight core sectors declined to 2.5 per cent in April mainly because of lower coal, crude oil and cement productions. The growth

India’s economic growth slowed to 7.1 per cent in 2016-17, the year in which 87 per cent of the currency was demonetised, despite a very

The Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee (MPC) is expected to keep the repo rate — at which it lends to banks — unchanged

RBI in its April policy had surprised us by scaling up the inflation trajectory by 25 bps, with 1HFY18 averaging 4.5%. But it appears that

The dramatic and sustained disinflation India has witnessed over the past three years is the most stark manifestation of the macro-economic transformation the economy has

Ashok Lavasa, finance secretary with the central government, to Arup Roychoudhury on the case for interest rate cuts, lagging private investment and whether Air India

After abolishing the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) last week, the Narendra Modi government is close to announcing the next big wave of liberalisation in

Black money fight: Saying that the number of people paying taxes has radically increased in a period spanning just 3-4 months, FM Arun Jaitley said

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that poor performance by private investors and banks still remains a challenge for the Indian economy. “Despite

Lawrence Summers called Donald Trump’s first Budget “ludicrous”. It makes extravagant assumptions of high GDP growth for a decade. It also makes the elementary mistake

India’s foreign exchange reserves gained $4 billion to reach $379.3 billion for the week ended May 19 said the Reserve Bank of India on Friday,

04 Jata Kahan Hai Diwane (2)     Exporters say meeting the export target of $900 billion by 2020 seems tough, given the current global economic

India retained its numero uno position as the world’s top most greenfield FDI investment destination for the second consecutive year, attracting USD 62.3 billion in

As the Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is about to complete three-years in office, various financial schemes of the government have taken