More than 250,000 people were evicted across India during the coronavirus pandemic, and millions more are at risk of being uprooted as authorities eye projects for faster economic growth, housing righ...

The Finance Ministry on Friday said the economy has started showing signs of revival from the impact of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on the back of targeted fiscal relief, monetary policy ...

Noting that the West Bengal government has differences with the Centre on issues related to revival of the economy, state industry minister Partha Chatterjee on Thursday said the TMC dispensation is l...

The finance ministry in its monthly economic report has said the vaccination exercise needs to be speeded up for a quicker recovery of the economy. The report for May said the government must set as ...

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The Covid-19 pandemic has not only thrown the entrenched inequalities in Indian society into sharp relief but also exacerbated them further. What is shocking is that these iniquities can often be the ...

DMK Lok Sabha MP Ravi Kumar on Monday asked the Union government to desist from its move to discontinue a scholarship scheme meant for the girl students of public-funded schools belonging to the Sched...

State Bank of India (SBI) will try to keep the interest rates benign as long as possible with a view to supporting the economic growth, its chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara has said.  On the impact o...

The IMF on Tuesday projected an impressive 12.5 per cent growth rate for India in 2021, stronger than that of China, the only major economy to have a positive growth rate last year during the COVID-19...

Aditi Nayar, principal economist, Icra, said: “The Survey’s forecasts of real and nominal GDP growth for 2021-22 of 11 per cent and 15.4 per cent, respectively, will require a substantial ...