Economy - general

India down 2 notches in UNDP's human development index

15 Mar 2013

Madras HC stops OMCs from hiking diesel prices for public transport buses

15 Mar 2013

Tax dodgers can avert penalty by paying up now: Chidambaram

14 Mar 2013

High food and fuel prices push up WPI inflation rate to 6.84 per cent in February

14 Mar 2013

HSBC, Morgan Stanley cut India’s 2013-14 growth forecasts

13 Mar 2013

HSBC, Morgan Stanley cut India’s 2013-14 growth forecasts

13 Mar 2013

Credit flow to industry slackens to 15.2 % in January

12 Mar 2013

Consumer price inflation firms up to 10.91 % in February

12 Mar 2013

Manufacturing, power sectors help IIP expand 2.4 % in January

12 Mar 2013

Manufacturing and electricity sectors posted growth rates of 2.7 per cent and 6.4 per cent, respectively, in January 2013

OECD pessimistic about India’s economic growth prospects

12 Mar 2013

India’s trade deficit hits $182 billion in April-February 2012-13

11 Mar 2013

February trade deficit at $14.92 billion, however, was lower compared to the $20 billion shortfall of the previous month (January 2013)

India to grow by 6 per cent next year: World Bank president

11 Mar 2013

FDI inflows to India plunge 34 % to $22.7 bn in 2012

11 Mar 2013

According to some estimates, India needs almost $1 trillion in FDI in the next five years for its infrastructure including roads, ports, railways, power, etc, to drive the country’s targetted economic growth

High inflation is not ‘the new norm’, must be curbed: RBI

09 Mar 2013

In a sharp comment against some Indian policy-makers accepting high inflation as a consequence of economic growth, RBI governor D Subbarao today said the RBI rejects the notion that high inflation is the "new normal"

Moily defends diesel price hike for bulk users; offers relief to fishermen co-ops

09 Mar 2013

Chidambaram gives RBI another hint to cut interest rates

09 Mar 2013

Chidambaram pitches again for RBI rate cut

08 Mar 2013

The move towards fiscal consolidation will impart confidence in the economy, support domestic and foreign investments and will boost supply side initiatives, he said

Govt seeks Parliament nod for Rs49,715-crore extra spending in FY’13

08 Mar 2013

The Rs49,715.54 crore supplementary demands presented today along with the Rs32,120 crore supplementary grants sought in December last year takes additional government spending in the current fiscal to Rs81,835.54 crore

Old age pensions to be inflation-linked, made universal

07 Mar 2013

Over 7 % growth next fiscal unlikely, Moody’s tells India

07 Mar 2013

India can bounce back to 8 % growth “in coming years”: Montek

07 Mar 2013

Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and the country's leading economic strategist, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, stressed that the pace of poverty reduction in the country was within the target set by the government

Pawar denies misappropriation of funds in Rs52,000-crore farm debt-waiver scheme

06 Mar 2013

PM promises action against farm loan waiver ‘cheats’

06 Mar 2013

Yet another CAG revelation sees government on the defensive in Parliament - this time the auditor's indictment of the government's 2008 agriculture loan-waiver scheme

India’s 10 richest could cover fiscal deficit: Forbes

06 Mar 2013

The total net worth of India's 55 billionaires could cover the country’s fiscal deficit twice over, according to Forbes magazine’s annual study of the world’s billionaires