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The Centre is set to release the second advanced estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) for this fiscal on Friday along with the third-quarter figures for the economy, on which there is a broad...

Industrial production grew 1 per cent in December, entering the positive territory after a month’s gap, mainly because of better performance of the manufacturing sector, official data showed on ...

The stock markets have turned excessively volatile in the past few days. The sensex crossed a 50,000 point threshold last Thursday before tumbling by over 1,800 points in two subsequent trading sessio...

The Reserve Bank of India has warned that the gross non-performing asset ratio of banks could rise to 13.5 per cent under a baseline scenario and almost double to 14.8 per cent in the worst case by Se...

The lower nominal GDP figure will mean that the fiscal deficit in 2020-21 -- which was projected at 3.5 per cent in last year’s budget -- will shoot to well over 7 per cent, according to some es...

Data released by the National Statistical Office, which show the gross domestic product for the second quarter (July-September) of 2020-21 declining by “only” 7.5 per cent compared to the ...

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With the passing of another International Literacy Day, India needs to confront the problem of its literacy levels. A report based on a 2017-18 survey by the National Statistical Office puts the count...

The Indian economy is floundering. Before the National Statistical Office came out with its macroeconomic data for the first quarter ended June 30, there was only an academic curiosity in the pundits&...