The Narendra Modi government has signalled its clear resolve to shut down all criticism over the slowdown in the Indian economy — by brazenly refusing to acknowledge published, official statistics a...

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In a blow to India, Moody's Investors Service has cut the country's credit rating outlook to negative, saying the government has been partly ineffective in addressing economic weakness, leading to ris...

Former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Monday spoke about the economic elephants in the room that the Narendra Modi government is loath to discuss and served up on finance minister Nirmala Sitharam...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the budget presented by her last week provides a 'discreet and considered' stimulus.Speaking to industry representatives in the financial capit...

Sir — When one does not have substance in one’s speech, one tends to speak more. The budget speech was so unnecessarily long that the finance minister felt unwell upon reading it. Further, this bu...

Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday said economic growth projections made by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget for 2020-21 appear ambitious given the structural and cyclical challen...

The employees' union of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) will stage an hour-long walk-out strike on Tuesday to protest against the government's move to sell its stake in the state-run insurer through ...

Shares in Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and IDBI Bank — the two storied, state-owned institutions in the country’s financial sector — will be sold to the public.The surprise announcement in t...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday peppered her budget speech with catchphrases and shibboleths but her interpretation of some of the government’s slogans evoked befuddlement if not der...