Economy - general

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

I-T dept won’t reopen cases prior to 1 April 2012: Pranab

30 May 2012

Rupee falls below 56 against dollar again

30 May 2012

Foreigners allowed to invest up to $1 b in corporate debt in India

29 May 2012

Whose fuel-price hike is it anyway?

28 May 2012

A rise in price of petrol by itself will have a negative impact on the economy and the environment unless it is followed by an immediate hike in diesel prices as well, writes Anjor Bhaskar

Government delays plan to hike prices of diesel, LPG and kerosene

28 May 2012

Graft case: CBI wants custody of YSR Cong boss Jagan

28 May 2012

Direct tax collections must increase, says Pranab

28 May 2012

Direct tax collections are not enough and the government is targeting revenue worth 12 per cent of GDP, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee says

Talking ourselves into a depression

27 May 2012

Reading a newspaper or watching television these days will make us believe that the Indian economy is already in a depression and our collective economic future is irredeemably doomed, if we are not dead already. The truth, as always, is more nuanced. By Vivek Sharma

Moily blames opposition, allies for economic woes, rupee fall

26 May 2012

International banks lower India’s GDP estimates for 2012-13

26 May 2012

Goldman Sachs and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch join the rising number of global institutions to express their pessimism over India economic prospects

Rupee gains on dollar sales by exporters, RBI

25 May 2012

Rangarajan heads new panel to review poverty estimates

24 May 2012

The group will review Planning Commission’s estimates that people with consumption expenditure of more than Rs28.65 per day in cities and Rs22.42 in rural areas are not poor

Rupee hits another record low of 56.22 a dollar

23 May 2012

UPA II: Good, but could put more, says PM’s report card

22 May 2012

He also offered to address the menace of corruption through both legislative and administrative measures

GST will make India’s goods and services competitive: FM

22 May 2012

The introduction of GST is expected to lead to a 1-1.5 per cent increase in GDP growth while easing the burden on the producer and the consumer and helping state to grow revenue

Rupee hits a new low of 55.42 against dollar

22 May 2012

Strong dollar demand from importers after the US currency strengthened in overseas markets helped the US currency to firm up further

Rupee plummets to 55 a dollar

21 May 2012

Neither the Reserve Bank nor the finance ministry moved to help the rupee in its hour of need, traders complain

Consumer price inflation for agricultural and rural labourers up about 100 basis points in April

21 May 2012

Tighter controls proposed in black money paper

21 May 2012

The white paper on black money tabled in Parliament spreads the blame for money-laundering across sectors from bullion and real estate to financial markets and NGOs