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On oil, rupee and CAD, markets have turned out wrong. This is because they did not look beyond short-term risks Dominant market opinions on key

The official ‘back series’, with FY12 as base year raises some concerns It’s official, at least for now: the updated GDP series, released jointly by

After what turned out to be an eventful week for Chief Statistician of India Pravin Srivastava — his ministry released the back series of national accounts for the UPA

“The speed of resolution process has to improve so as to make the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) more responsive to the large number of

In the annals of ancient Greek historiography, King Pyrrhus of Epirus was considered one of the greatest military commanders of his time who, in his

By Ashok V Desai The NDA government has been a pioneer a number of times. Demonetisation and the goods and services tax (GST) are only

Demonetisation was a move against corrupt people and not against elite as has been indicated by former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said Friday. Subramanian in

Arvind Subramanian, India’s former chief economic adviser, has called demonetisation “draconian” in his soon-to-be-released book ‘Of Counsel’. He resigned in June this year due to “pressing

Tax revenue was 44.7 per cent of BE compared to 51.6 per cent achieved in the comparable period of the last year. The full-year fiscal deficit target

Back in 2007, the then US ambassador in China met Li Keqiang, who at the time was the Chinese Communist Party secretary for Liaoning and

The Q2 gross domestic product (GDP) growth number is definitely lower than was expected at 7.1 per cent for two reasons. A higher growth looked

At the end of the day, the Central Statistics Organisation (CSO), which released the gross domestic product (GDP) data for the July-September quarter of 2018

The World Bank’s reported suggestion that India should re-orient its policies to drive high growth across sectors instead of focusing only on hi-tech firms is

The National Company Law Tribunal’s Kolkata bench has admitted the insolvency plea against power transmission company EMC, which has defaulted on payments to the tune of Rs 6,500

All manner of interpretations and conspiracy theories are floating around regarding the CSO release of the new GDP back-series for the period 2004/5 to 2011/12

Fiscal deficit has breached the Budget Estimate in the first seven months of the current fiscal, according to the Controller-General of Accounts. The data released

The government’s re-estimation of the GDP using 2011-12 as the base year lowers India’s growth during the UPA regime. That growth under the present government

A little over seven years ago, RBI governor D Subbarao said that the central bank’s work was handicapped by unreliability of basic data and frequent

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has on Thursday ordered the only bidder for Mumbai-based infrastructure EPC company Jyoti Structures Ltd. to revise its

Demonetisation was a massive, draconian, monetary shock that accelerated economic slide to 6.8 per cent in the seven quarters after it against the 8 per cent