Policymakers in India appear to have lost their sagacity and their savoir faire. What on earth should one make of the statement by the chief economic adviser, Krishnamurthy Subramanian, that the ...

Chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian on Tuesday said the government was open to another round of fiscal stimulus but stressed on its timing as central support in itself may not push consum...

I wrote on New Year’s Day about Arvind Subramanian — the chief economic adviser who would barge into Arun Jaitley’s room and shower him with bright policy ideas, only to be politely listened to ...

Quick workThe quizmaster-turned-politician, Derek O’Brien, continues to be gripped by the ‘fastest finger first’ syndrome. During the address of the president, Ram Nath Kovind, to the joint sess...

Senior officials of the finance ministry called a media briefing in the capital on Friday but refused to field any questions, undermining the very definition of a cornerstone of journalism.The ministr...

Chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian slammed industry for seeking tax reliefs from the government to tide itself over the current economic slowdown and claimed the Indian economy was holdi...

The first revised estimates of the national income in 2018-19 show that the real GDP growth a year ago had crumbled to 6.1 per cent, piling more misery on finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman who will ...

The Narendra Modi government has finally run out of explanations for the sharp slowdown in the economy. After the National Statistical Office came out with data last week showing that gross domestic p...

The finance ministry’s chief economic adviser has come out with a novel thali concept to calculate the affordability of a plate of meal at a time spiralling prices of onion and other vegetables are ...

The Economic Survey, which was released in New Delhi on Friday, said entrepreneurial activity had increased in some northeastern states.This was mentioned in a chapter on Entrepreneurship and Wealth C...