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Former Reserve Bank Governor C Rangarajan today said the GST rollout has been smooth barring some initial hick ups and maintained the new regime is

The Economic Survey today said implementation of GST has shown early signs of expansion in tax base and called for inclusion of education, healthcare electricity,

Signalling price stability, the Economic Survey-II today said retail inflation at the end of March 2018 will remain within RBI’s medium term target of 4

The RBI expectedly cut the repo rate last week by 25 basis points, bringing the key lending rate to a six-year low of 6 percent.

There is a “genuine case” for rating agencies to consider giving an upgrade to India’s sovereign rating following positive changes that have taken place in

The Finance Ministry on Friday in its mid-year economic survey said that achieving upper end of 6.75 percent to 7.5 percent real GDP growth predicted

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare’s recommendations on the proposed legislation surrogacy reflect the kind of progressive thinking policy-making in India needs.

The rupee has been behaving differently from most of the important world currencies. A medium-term review indicates that the dollar has strengthened against most international

Though the political class appears to be in favour of a strong rupee—the currency has appreciated around 6.1% against the dollar so far in 2017—the

Takshashila argues that true data protection can be secured through a “rights-based model” based on accountability of the data controller, autonomy of the user over

Apart from investing far more in health and education, says the Survey, policies need much change in both. Such as designing around learning outcomes in

The sting of demonetisation is still hurting the real estate and housing sector, which is in the doldrums. From hitting a five-year low in residential

What is the thinking behind saying that there are greater downsides for the economy to reach the higher limit of your earlier 2017-18 gross domestic

India may not achieve the upper-end of the 6.75-7.5 per cent growth forecast for the current fiscal, noted the second volume of the Economic Survey

Form association to engage with policy-makers Bitcoin start-ups have urged the Centre to allow self-regulation of the segment. Digital Asset and Block Chain Foundation of

Factory output fell to a four-year low and contracted by 0.1 per cent in June with poor performance of manufacturing and mining sectors. This is

Volume 2 admits to growth slowdown from pre-Budget projections, say analysts India Inc and analysts said that the second volume of the Economic Survey for

The Survey has called for more public investments in social sectors — mainly education and health — at a time when the NITI Aayog is

Exports need to grow at 26.5 per cent annually for the next five years for India to reach a “respectable’’ 5 per cent share in

It was in October 2014 that US-based economist Arvind Subramanian took office as the Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry for a three-year term.