Economy - general
Indian slump due to poor infra, business investment: IMF
26 Mar 2014
A slump in infrastructure and corporate investment has been the single largest contributor to India's recent growth slowdown, a working paper released by the IMF says
Under 30s account for 25% of bank loans: Cibil
24 Mar 2014
The number of young borrowers in the country has grown significantly with the spread of banking facilities and an increase in job availability
Retrospective tax on Vodafone was a mistake: Pitroda
20 Mar 2014
Sam Pitroda, the prime minister’s technology advisor, on Wednesday admitted that the UPA government did “mess up” and took some wrong decisions, including the one to impose a retrospective tax on Vodafone
Wholesale price inflation falls further to a 9-month low of 4.68%
14 Mar 2014
The decline in wholesale price inflation is not going to make an impact on RBI’s monetary policy stance as the consumer price inflation is still at 8 per cent levels, with core inflation showing a firm trend
India’s industrial production barely grew at 0.1% in January
12 Mar 2014
Cumulative growth of industrial production during the first 10 months of the fiscal (April-January 2013-14) over the corresponding period of the previous year stood at 0.0 per cent
US pressures India to further cut Iranian oil imports
12 Mar 2014
India finds itself obliged to cut its oil imports from Iran by two-thirds from the first quarter of the financial year that begins in April, in keeping with the nuclear deal easing sanctions on Teheran
Switzerland says India can get only 'lawful' info on black money
10 Mar 2014
Switzerland says it is exchanging information with Indian authorities on all lawful requests, but cannot help on enquiries based on stolen banking data