India’s economic growth has tumbled to a 12-year low of 4.2 per cent in 2019-20.What is even worse is that this statistic barely reflects the impact of the coronavirus-induced lockdown, which has si...

India’s growth slowed sharply in the three months to March -- not as severely as analysts had forecast -- but the numbers gave a taste of the Covid-19 economic pain to come.Gross domestic product ex...

India's economic growth slipped to 3.1 per cent in the January-March quarter of 2019-20 showing impact of Covid-19 pandemic.The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 5.7 per cent in the corresp...

Where is the demand generator?The balancing act implicit in the package may be a deft move to stir entrepreneurial energies and shake up the economy, but what is missing is that big demand trigger whi...

Amidst the global economic recession due to the coronavirus pandemic, foreign investors have pulled out an estimated USD 26 billion from developing Asian economies and over USD 16 billion out of India...

The government's Rs 20.97 lakh crore Covid-19 package lacks in addressing immediate concerns of the economy as the actual fiscal impact of the additional stimulus is only about 1 per cent of GDP as op...

The Congress on Monday said the government’s stimulus package barely equalled 0.91 per cent of the GDP rather than 10 per cent as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed, and said it had given noth...

The Congress on Monday said the fiscal stimulus package announced by the government is 'hopelessly inadequate' given the gravity of the economic crisis as it amounts to only Rs 1.86 lakh crore, which ...

The Centre has raised the borrowing limits of states to 5 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) but the allowance has come with strings attached.States will have to meet strict conditions lai...

It is far too early to judge how the three phases of the national lockdown that began on March 24 — with a dress rehearsal two days earlier — will be judged in the coming years or, indeed, by futu...