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India's budget likely to hike spending to combat slumping growth

In January-March, annual growth slumped to 5.8 per cent, the slowest pace in 20 quarters.

03 Jul 2019 1:56 PM

Going for growth, government set to borrow more: Economists

Govt will revise its fiscal deficit target up to 3.5 per cent of GDP for the current fiscal year and 3.3 per cent for 2020-21.

03 Jul 2019 1:53 PM

‘Economic growth high on agenda of govt,’ says Nirmala Sitharaman

Finance Minister Sitharaman said in the last quarter, there could have been a fall and steps have been taken to improve the economy.

03 Jul 2019 8:55 AM

No study on effect of note-ban: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

This was disclosed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in reply to a question by Congress member Digvijaya Singh in the Rajya Sabha.

02 Jul 2019 7:53 PM

How New Age Digital Lenders are strengthening the backbone of economy ‘MSMEs’

MSME’s are now able to get easy access on short term, collateral-free loans that too in lesser time.

29 Jun 2019 6:13 PM

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Indian companies optimistic about their growth prospects: HSBC

Survey showed that businesses in India are very optimistic about their growth prospects, despite subdued macro-economic conditions.

26 Jun 2019 3:05 PM

Lowering GST on automobiles would help the economy: Anand Mahindra

Vehicle sales across categories registered a decline of 8.62 per cent to 20,86,358 units from 22,83,262 units in May 2018.

26 Jun 2019 1:36 PM

Experts panel suggests ways to achieve USD 5-trillion economy target: Niti Aayog

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar, CEO Amitabh Kant and senior government officials were present in the meeting.

23 Jun 2019 7:44 PM

Group constituted for resolving ecommerce issues: Piyush Goyal

The policy addresses broad areas of e-commerce ecosystem such as infra development, market places, regulatory issues among others.

21 Jun 2019 7:46 PM

Govt likely to let budget deficit rise as tax receipts fall short

Fiscal deficit target to as much as 3.6 per cent of GDP from an already upwardly revised target of 3.4 per cent.

21 Jun 2019 11:39 AM

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EAC-PM rejects Subramanian's claim on over-estimation of GDP

Primary contributors of the paper are economists Bibek Debroy, Rathin Roy, Surjit Bhalla, Charan Singh, Arvind Virmani.

19 Jun 2019 7:44 PM

FM reviews state of economy at FSDC meet

The FSDC is the apex body of sectoral regulators, headed by the finance minister.

19 Jun 2019 7:15 PM

Pakistan to get USD 3.4 billion in budgetary aid from Asian Development Bank

The ADB financing would come on top of the IMF loan, with most of the funds to be disbursed in the current fiscal year.

16 Jun 2019 9:41 AM

India defends methodology to measure economic growth

GDP growth being overstated by about 2.5 percentage points per year between 2011-12 and 2016-17.

12 Jun 2019 9:54 AM

Monsoon arrival may cheer market

Monsoon arrival and its advance as the week progresses is likely to cheer agri-input stocks.

10 Jun 2019 4:33 AM

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RBI removes charges on RTGS/NEFT transactions; asks banks to pass on benefits

RBI has decided to set up a committee to review the charges levied on the use to ATMs.

06 Jun 2019 12:53 PM

Highlights of RBI's monetary policy statement

Raises retail inflation forecast for Apr-Sept to 3-3.1 per cent and 3.4-3.7 per cent in Oct-March.

06 Jun 2019 12:48 PM

RBI cuts key rate by 25 bps, changes neutral policy stance to accommodative

Benchmark interest rate was cut by 0.25 per cent to 5.75 per cent from 6.00 per cent.

06 Jun 2019 12:04 PM

After dismal data, India sets up cabinet panels on jobs, economy

The unemployment rate rose to a multi-year-high of 6.1 per cent in the 2017-18 fiscal year.

06 Jun 2019 11:46 AM

Assocham demands cut in effective corp tax to 25 pc, inflation indexing of allowances

Assocham also demanded cut in customs duty rates on aluminium to 5 per cent from 7.5 per cent

03 Jun 2019 3:32 PM

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