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In the third week of August, the government had announced a new framework to oversee proposals for merger of state-run banks. That initiative aimed at

The move confirmed earlier reports of Chinese officials mulling a closure of domestic exchanges for virtual currency trading, which sent the price of Bitcoin tumbling.

Income inequality in India has been sharply on the rise, particularly since the early eighties, when growth began to accelerate, says a paper by French

The data released last Friday revealed that India’s current account deficit in the first quarter of 2017-18 is at its highest level in four years,

India’s external balance sheet may have improved significantly since the infamous taper tantrum of 2013, but there are now signs that warrant more caution from

Insolvency resolution is about the allocation of losses among different stakeholders in a situation where there isn’t enough left in the pot for everyone. So

The bitcoin-rupee swap rate went into a free fall after regulators in China forced BTC China, one of the world’s biggest exchanges for the digital

With 30 per cent lesser offtake of 430 million tonnes of cement last year, due to slowdown in construction industry in the country, a similar

Despite RBI’s caution on virtual currencies, a domestic Bitcoin exchange said it was adding over 2,500 users a day and had reached five lakh downloads.

If the economy can grow up to 8-9% for a decade or so, the number of people below the poverty line will come down. Since

In April, a top commerce ministry official told a group of financial journalists “not to be alarmist” over rising gold imports. The reporters wanted to

At the end of July 2017, the government had exhausted 92.4 per cent of the annual target of fiscal deficit. The time for boasts is

The finance ministry’s current economic survey indicates that today’s oil market is very different from a few years ago, in a way that imparts a

While agriculture year (July-June) 2016-17 saw record-high pulses production, profit margins for all pulses except gram (chick peas) declined by an average of 30%. This

Between central government excise duties and state VATs, taxes in Delhi comprise around 52% of the retail price of petrol and around 44% in the

In late June, one of India’s top wind power equipment makers, Inox Wind Ltd, was dragged into insolvency courts by a logistics handler over unpaid

After single-digit growth in the previous three months, exports rose 10.29 per cent in August, up from 3.94 per cent in July, despite exporters’ woes

India’s current account deficit (CAD) in the first quarter ended June soared to a four-year high of $14.3 billion, or 2.4 per cent of gross

The current account deficit (CAD) increased to $14.3 billion, or 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), in the first quarter of the current

Two months after the roll out of the goods and services tax (GST) regime in July, the order books of exporters are said to have