Economy - general

India’s foreign trade shrinks in May

14 Jun 2012

The country registered a trade deficit of $16.22 billion for May and a cumulative trade deficit of $29.67 billion for the first two months of the fiscal

India’s WPI inflation creeps up to 7.5 per cent in May

14 Jun 2012

Congress rejects TMC-SP names for President

14 Jun 2012

The Congress party's response followed a meeeting of senior party leaders Pranab Mukherjee, defence minister A K Antony and home minister P Chidambaram with UPA chairperson and Congress party president Sonia Gandhi

India unattractive investment destination: Goldman

14 Jun 2012

An important component of Goldman Sachs underweight view on India stemmed from "risk of significant capital flight"

Congress proposes Pranab, Ansari for president, TMC, SP name PM, Kalam, Somnath

14 Jun 2012

Direct tax collections up 3.6 per cent at Rs52,232 crore in April-May

13 Jun 2012

High oil prices holding up global economic growth: Reddy

13 Jun 2012

India’s annual oil import bill jumped to $140 billion from $100 billion over the last two financial years, which pushed down the country’s growth rate to 6.9 per cent from over 8 per cent in the previous financial year

India, US kick off Obama-Singh knowledge initiative

13 Jun 2012

Each of the eight projects will receive an award of approximately $250,000 that can be utilised over the three-year grant period

Kaushik Basu makes strong pitch for FDI in retail

13 Jun 2012

Indian economy to grow at 6.9% this year: World Bank

13 Jun 2012

US exempts India, 6 other nations from Iran oil import sanctions

12 Jun 2012

US said it is continuing talks with China and Singapore and exemptions may be granted before the 28 June deadline for the sanctions to take effect

Is the Indian economy a 'fallen angel'?

12 Jun 2012

The ongoing economic downturn is not a typical cyclical slowdown, but the problems that forced the Indian economy to this difficult corner are very evident. At the same time, it is difficult to accept that the economy has fallen into a structural growth trough, entirely due to domestic policy failures, says Shivshanker Verma

Factory output growth for April is 0.1 %, IIP shows

12 Jun 2012

The economic turnaround promised by the government is nowhere in sight, as production figures remain depressing

Pranab to meet bank chiefs today, discuss NPAs

12 Jun 2012

Indirect tax collections up 16 per cent in May 2012

11 Jun 2012

India on turnaround path, says Pranab Mukherjee

11 Jun 2012

`Foreign institutional investors have poured in $12 billion in the first five months of the current calendar year (up to 9 June 2012) as against FII inflows of $8.3 billon in the full calendar year 2011’

2012-13 to be turnaround year for Indian economy: Mukherjee

11 Jun 2012

Indian economy showing signs of fatigue: OECD

11 Jun 2012

The assessments for India and China, based on composite leading indicators, currently point towards economic activity below long-term trend, OECD said

India could be first BRIC country to lose investment rating: warns S&P

11 Jun 2012

GDP growth will be well under 6.5 % this year: business leaders

11 Jun 2012

FIIs pulling funds out of India at rapid rate

11 Jun 2012

India’s record grain stock starts to rot

09 Jun 2012

Reports said foodgrains worth about Rs2 crore stacked in the open by the Food Corporation of India in Kota, and Sriganganagar in Rajasthan got drenched in rain water on Wednesday