Economy - general

Karnataka gets proposals worth Rs5,00,000-cr on first day of investors’ meet

08 Jun 2012

CBI to grill India Cements' chief in Jagan assets case

08 Jun 2012

The CBI says that India Cements invested in these companies in an illegitimate quid pro quo when Jagan’s late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was the chief minister

Reports raise a stink over plan panel’s Rs35-lakh toilet renovation

07 Jun 2012

Direct tax collections up 13.02 per cent at Rs5,90,077 crore in 2011-12

07 Jun 2012

Pension bill shelved despite Congress promises

07 Jun 2012

The government today once again deferred the pension reform bill, due to the opposition of the Trinamool Congress, a key coalition partner, to pension reforms

Corporates expect rupee to slide to 58 per dollar: ING Vysya survey

04 Jun 2012

Pranab confident of meeting indirect tax collection target

04 Jun 2012

Economic situation not as grim as in 1991: Pranab

04 Jun 2012

Stung by the economic comparison with 1991, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said "there is no reason to believe that we are going back to the situation of 1991 because our fundamentals are very strong"

Monsoon to arrive in 48 hours: weather department

04 Jun 2012

The onset of the rains may meet the schedule of the Met department; but there are strong fears that the monsoon will be weak

Sharma heads board to boost sagging manufacturing sector

04 Jun 2012

Cut in RBI rates likely this month

04 Jun 2012

There is leeway to cut interest rates because of declining production and lower crude prices, the central bank’s deputy governor Subir Gokarn says

Cut in RBI rates likely this month

04 Jun 2012

There is leeway to cut interest rates because of declining production and lower crude prices, the central bank’s deputy governor Subir Gokarn says

CBI gains five-day window to grill Jagan

02 Jun 2012

Bihar emerges as India’s ‘tiger economy’

02 Jun 2012

Bihar, once written off as a basket case, has seen tremendous improvement both on the economic and law and order fronts since 2005

Banks’ outstanding loans grow 21.8 % to Rs40,75,647 crore in FY’11

01 Jun 2012

India starts fiscal with a $13.5-bn trade deficit in April

01 Jun 2012

Crude oil, which accounts for a major part of India’s imports, rose nearly 7 per cent to $13.91 billion in April 2012

Karnataka to set up Rs500-crore infrastructure fund

01 Jun 2012

PM sets up monitoring system for large projects

01 Jun 2012

Rupee hits record low of 56.52 against the dollar

31 May 2012

Consumer price inflation for industrial workers zooms to 10.22 per cent in April

31 May 2012

India, Bahrain sign tax information pact

31 May 2012

Core sector growth fails to break above 2.2 per cent in April

31 May 2012

India’s GDP growth slowed to 6.5 per cent in 2011-12

31 May 2012

Per capita net national income (NNI) in real terms is estimated to have reached Rs37,851 in 2011-12, from Rs35,993 crore in 2010-11

Bandh over petrol price hike disrupts life nationwide

31 May 2012

Mumbai and Delhi – both ruled by the Congress and its allies – were relatively less affected, although there were transport problems with autorickshaws off the road