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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman sen during an interactive session on the Union Budget 2020-21 with industrialists in Chennai on Feb. 8, 2020. (PTI)

Nirmala Sitharaman: See these seven green shoots?

Fin min counts 7 indicators that show the Indian economy doing swimmingly whether Chidambaram agrees or not

11 Feb 2020 2:21 PM IST

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said that flawed structure and implementation has made GST a bad word among businesspersons, traders, exporters and common citizens. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

Economy close to collapse, fear in country: Chidambaram

Fiscal deficit was targeted to shrink to 3.3 per cent of the GDP but ended at 3.8 pc and in the next fiscal it is being...

11 Feb 2020 10:03 AM IST

While the country attracted FDI valued around $286 billion in the past five years across sectors, defence and aerospace, which were projected as high potential sectors under Make in India, could grab only a measly Rs 1,834 crore, according to government data released on Monday.

Defence, aerospace get Rs 1,800 cr FDI in 5 years

The government had also announced two defence corridors-- in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.

11 Feb 2020 4:17 AM IST

Investors added risk in November as their portfolios are no longer explicitly geared to assets that outperform in a low growth & low inflation backdrop, the survey said.

Indian inflation likely hit a near six-year high in January: report

40 economists showed India's annual consumer price inflation is expected to have risen to 7.40 per cent in January.

10 Feb 2020 11:21 AM IST

The government, however, said it would fine-tune its existing policies to increase outward shipments while also examine the loopholes of revenue leakage in the system.

GSTIN made mandatory in export, import papers

Data analytics by the revenue authorities have detected rampant tax evasion through black market and under-valuing of...

10 Feb 2020 5:49 AM IST

People wearing protective face masks ride a public bus in Hong Kong, Sunday. AP photo

China virus outbreak hits Indian tourism

Foreign as well as domestic tourists are cancelling travel to Kerala where three cases of the disease have been...

9 Feb 2020 2:31 PM IST

Argentine vice-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (AP photo)

Argentina to repay IMF debts after recession ends

Argentina needs to restructure $100 billion in sovereign debt with creditors, including part of a $57 billion credit...

9 Feb 2020 1:58 PM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Budget 2020 provides 'discreet and considered' stimulus: Sitharaman

Sitharaman said divestments are necessary to get transparency in the working of companies.

7 Feb 2020 1:37 PM IST

Japans fourth-largest automaker posted an operating profit of 51.8 billion yen (USD 471.34 million) for the October-December quarter.

Suzuki posts 11 pc fall in third-quarter profit, hit by slowing India...

Suzuki kept its forecast for full-year operating profit to drop 40 per cent to 200 billion yen.

7 Feb 2020 1:01 PM IST

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Highlights of RBI's sixth bi-monthly monetary policy statement for...

Next meeting of the MPC scheduled during March 31, April 1 and 3, 2020.

6 Feb 2020 1:04 PM IST

Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das

RBI has many other tools to revive growth, not just interest rates:...

The governor said the continuity in policy from last pause should not be read as a pointer to future actions.

6 Feb 2020 12:50 PM IST

The inflationary expectations would be seeping even in the core inflation (non-food, non-fuel). Going forward, both external and internal factors would weigh on the mind of the Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI: Assocham

RBI revises upwards retail inflation projection to 6.5 pc for Jan-Mar...

RBI further said that the actual inflation outcome for Q2 at 5.8 per cent overshot projections by 70 bps.

6 Feb 2020 12:36 PM IST