The year 2021 brings positivity and optimism. There is a lot to look forward to even though the battle against the virus is not yet over. Countries are still challenged by recurrent infections. But ef...

Analysts want the government to give a realistic fiscal deficit target for 2021-22 as the coronavirus has dealt a severe blow to its finances this year. The pandemic  has caused the fiscal defic...

Arvind Subramanian did flag grave concerns on the economy. So did Kaushik Basu and several others. The dire remarks fell on deaf ears in the Narendra Modi government. Understandably, because Subraman...

American brokerage BofA Securities on Friday said the Indian economy continues to be “weak”, pointing to activity indicators tracked by it. On the positive side, the brokerage said credit...

The Reserve Bank of India has raised a red flag for the banking industry with an early warning that the stack of bad loans could rise to alarming levels once it starts to roll back the post-pandemic r...

The sudden announcement by the Reserve Bank of India of a variable rate, term reverse repo auction to restore normal liquidity management operations has taken markets by surprise even as it has led to...

India’s industrial production entered the negative zone after two months with a year-on-year contraction of 1.9 per cent in November because of poor showing by the manufacturing and mining secto...

The government is considering a number of relief options to the salaried class in the budget, including raising the standard deduction by Rs 10,000-20,000 from the current level of Rs 50,000 and offer...

  Retail inflation tumbled to a 14 month low of 4.59 per cent amid a dramatic fall in vegetable prices and contraction in overall food prices. Analysts in a Reuters poll had predicted inflation ...

The current forecasts for the growth rates of gross domestic product are, expectedly, quite grim. The real GDP, that is national income corrected for price changes, is estimated to contract by 7.7 per...