In January-March, annual growth slumped to 5.8 per cent, the slowest pace in 20 quarters.
03 Jul 2019 1:56 PM
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
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
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
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
Survey showed that businesses in India are very optimistic about their growth prospects, despite subdued macro-economic conditions.
26 Jun 2019 3:05 PM
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
Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar, CEO Amitabh Kant and senior government officials were present in the meeting.
23 Jun 2019 7:44 PM
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
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
Primary contributors of the paper are economists Bibek Debroy, Rathin Roy, Surjit Bhalla, Charan Singh, Arvind Virmani.
19 Jun 2019 7:44 PM
The FSDC is the apex body of sectoral regulators, headed by the finance minister.
19 Jun 2019 7:15 PM
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
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 and its advance as the week progresses is likely to cheer agri-input stocks.
10 Jun 2019 4:33 AM
RBI has decided to set up a committee to review the charges levied on the use to ATMs.
06 Jun 2019 12:53 PM
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
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
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 also demanded cut in customs duty rates on aluminium to 5 per cent from 7.5 per cent
03 Jun 2019 3:32 PM