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India pays its third largest oil supplier in euros using European banking channels and imports.

Excise cut to cost India its fiscal deficit target

It said that the government revenue from excise duties on petroleum products has more than doubled since fiscal 2014.

10 Oct 2018 12:27 AM IST

The argument put forward by the leaders of the BJP and others was that India did not depend on exports for its economic growth, and that the huge domestic market and the consumption it entailed was good enough to keep the economy in shape and the global developments were marginal. (Representational image)

India's ostrich club and the global recession

The moral of the market economy is that small disasters trigger bigger ones, potentially.

3 Oct 2018 1:31 AM IST

The objective of imparting financial literacy is to spearhead a revolution to change the investment habits of rural India and the middle classes through easily understandable education modules, pre-tested for their learnability before dissemination. (Representational image)

Why financial inclusion and financial literacy needs to have priority...

Financial inclusion can only happen concurrently with financial literacy, which are twin pillars to mitigate poverty.

3 Oct 2018 12:22 AM IST

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) estimated that Indias GDP grew by 8.5 per cent in the financial year 2010-11 (April 2010 to March 2011) and not at 10.3 per cent as previously estimated.(Photo: AFP)

Ahead of 2019 polls, govt slashes GDP growth data during UPA

NITI Aayog vice-chairman said variation in two sets of numbers was due to recalibration of data in certain sectors of...

29 Nov 2018 8:22 AM IST

China President Xi Jinping

Age of anxiety: Alienation modern scourge

The task of forging an overarching identity transcending the amalgam that develops through such superimposition...

25 Nov 2018 1:05 AM IST

US President Donald Trump

Age of anxiety: Good times, bad times

The world as a whole during the last three quarters of a century after World War II has seen the best of times .

25 Nov 2018 12:58 AM IST

India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)

India's immediate and existential eco crisis

Agriculture employs 58 per cent of our workforce and now contributes about 15 per cent of our GDP.

22 Nov 2018 6:44 AM IST

Chidambaram attacks govt over rocky ties with RBI, says RBI worked...

Chidambaram accused the government of "meddling" with the methodology of calculating the GDP numbers.

21 Nov 2018 3:58 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi further said that the government has taken several measures for improving the ease of doing business in the country. (Photo: PTI)

Govt must do more to implement its schemes

Credit growth is only just picking up, with banks burdened by stressed assets and afraid to lend for fear of increasing...

17 Nov 2018 12:01 AM IST

Chanda Kochhar of ICICI Bank. (Photo: File)

India's economy turning around, GDP to clock 7 pc in H2: Kochhar

ICICI Bank chief said the full fiscal GDP growth for 2017-18 should also be in excess of 6.5 per cent.

22 Jan 2018 1:08 PM IST

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Reading the tea leaves as fiscal 2019 looms

The FM is fiscally bound this year, not least because the GST is performing below expectations.

22 Jan 2018 12:29 AM IST

Reserve Bank of India, RBI, is a banking regulator. It also calculates and fixes repo rate. (Photo: AFP)

Mauritius largest source of FDI in India, says RBI

Ratio of market values of inward to outward direct investment, increased to 4.3 in March 2017 from 3.6 a year ago.

20 Jan 2018 11:46 AM IST