The graph is smooth like a waterfall: in the quarters beginning with April 2018, the year-on-year growth in gross domestic product at constant prices has been 8.1, 8.0, 7.0, 6.6, 5.8, 5.0 and 4.5 per ...

The statistics ministry has constituted a 28-member standing committee on statistics (SCES), chaired by former chief statistician Pronab Sen, to improve the quality of data amid criticism of the gover...

India’s power demand fell 13.2 per cent in October from a year ago, posting its steepest monthly decline in over 12 years, government data showed, reflecting a deepening growth slowdown in Asia’s ...

The comment on the weaponisation of economics by the former chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, is a telling indictment of the way political interests trump such other considerations as veraci...

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday put out a new set of data that tried to show that economic growth during the NDA regime was far higher than that during the 10-year UPA tenure.The announcemen...

Domestic passenger vehicle sales declined 6.2 per cent in January, falling for the fifteenth consecutive month, stressed by rising cost of ownership and slower GDP growth, automobile industry body Sia...

We have received the government’s view of the economy in the past week, which is understandably rosy. It did not mention another view, which was made public just before Washington closed down for Ch...

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said investments would not pick up in a strife-torn country and restoring India’s image as a pluralist country with thriving communal harmony was a must for putting the econo...

Moody’s Investors Service on Monday has lowered its GDP growth projection for the 2019-20 fiscal to 4.9 per cent from 5.8 per cent. The rating agency said India’s weak household consumption will c...

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has said it might cut India’s sovereign rating if the economy did not recover.The rating agency has a BBB- rating with a stable outlook for India. Earlier this mont...