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This is the last full calendar year for the present government, and it has not begun well with the growth forecast for the current fiscal

Under normal liquidation process, the company operation is shut first and then assets are sold to realise value. Slum sale of assets is expected fetch

With just three weeks to go for the Union Budget, all eyes are on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to see if he would bring legislative

The government has an enviable record when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). The decision to liberalise FDI norms, taken by the Union

The past year has been a bad one for the underlying global political and economic order. Consider the following events and trends: * Despite apocalyptic

Investment in the Indian economy has declined from 34.3 per cent of the GDP in 2011-12 to 27 per cent of the GDP in 2016-17.

The economy may need a budgetary stimulus to reverse negative signals By pegging the rate of growth at 6.5 per cent in 2017-18, the first

The ‘bail-in’ clause in FRDI Bill is no big deal Some provisions in the proposed Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill is being discussed

The first advance estimates for economic growth in 2017-18, released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Friday, do not make a pretty picture. The

The global currency market has been braced for volatility, as the Brexit negotiations drag on. December saw a string of central bank policy reviews but

A view, currently shared by a large number of people, is that the Union government’s Budget for 2018-19 will be populist. The argument is that

The two measures of industrial performance The former assesses industry confidence levels while the latter focuses on output. IIP is a more reliable, representative index

Whistle-blowers alert authorities A number of insolvency-bound companies, reeling under huge unserved loans, are scouting for front entities to buy them out in a distress

Keen to minimise hardship faced by companies going in for insolvency resolution, the government will from financial year 2017-18 allow a company to reduce amount

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today hit out at the government over lower growth estimates for the current fiscal, saying the worst fears of an

By-VP  Singh      A new day brings new hope. A new year brings even greater hope. Such hope is wont to get even more

By- KS Mehta The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’s (IBC’s) welcome objective is expeditious revival of stagnating industrial investment, whether operating or capital work in progress,

Smaller banks have been more agile in the initial days of the Insolvency framework by moving more cases to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).

A common thread running through the high economic growth phases of different countries is that the regulatory regime has been relatively stable. This has provided

The practice of releasing advance GDP growth data began last year when the government shifted the Union Budget presentation to February 1. The economy is