Once, in the early 1970s, I asked a very learned uncle why India had fallen off the knowledge map after the Gupta Empire declined. He thought for so long that I was about to repeat my question when he...

The Modi government found itself in a stew on Tuesday after former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian put out a paper in which he said India’s GDP growth estimate had been exaggerated by arou...

The 19-day extension of the lockdown on Tuesday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led analysts to flag concerns over its economic impact, with some estimating a GDP contraction of 1 per cent in 2020-21 ...

India Inc has sought a huge stimulus package from the government amid reports that the Centre is preparing a second round of boosters for the economy ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic.The Confederation...

Indian economic growth likely accelerated a touch in the October-December period after its weakest expansion in over six years in the previous quarter, a Reuters poll showed, with a small rebound in r...

As the BJP celebrated 100 days of achievements of its second term at the Centre, the Congress on Sunday tore into it over the Kashmir clampdown, the falling rupee and loss of jobs, accusing the right-...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said the state of the economy was 'deeply worrying' and that 'all-round mismanagement' by the Modi government has resulted in this slowdown.In a statemen...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s grand plan to get public sector banks to dole out loans and kick-start an economic arrival appears to have been star-crossed. Literally.On Thursday, Sitha...

 The extension of the lockdown by the government will have a deep impact on the economic activity, a foreign brokerage said, sharply cutting India's GDP forecast for this financial year to a cont...

A day after India reported its lowest economic growth in 40 quarters, a research report has questioned the overall data quality and volatility in the new series provided by the Central Statistics Offi...