Economy - general

SEZ developers plead for time; several face axe

18 Feb 2015

Wholesale price inflation rate falls further to (-) 0.39% in January

16 Feb 2015

India’s April-January trade deficit up at $118.37 bn

13 Feb 2015

India piled up a trade deficit of an estimated $118.37 billion in the first 10 months of the current financial year despite falling oil prices

With inflation on track despite base revision, Crisil expects RBI rate cut

13 Feb 2015

Industrial production growth slumps to 1.7% in December

12 Feb 2015

Government to slap criminal cases on black money suspects

12 Feb 2015

The union government announced today that its ‘crusade’ against black money stashed abroad will now focus on criminal proceedings

Consumer price inflation jumps to 5.11% in January as base year shifts to 2012

12 Feb 2015

Reforms will continue despite AAP’s Delhi sweep: Jaitley

12 Feb 2015

Farmer recompense: SC slams centre for wasting court time

12 Feb 2015

What was it worth? Assessing the value of Obama’s India visit

11 Feb 2015

Normally, the visit of a high-powered foreign dignitary is the occasion for a lot of announcements about partnerships and projects. This trip was no exception. But while such statements are often forgotten, this time there was evidence that the Obama visit had pushed the government to quick action on various fronts. Republished with permission of Knowledge@Wharton

Corporates using shell firms to pay bribes, says HDFC’s Parekh

11 Feb 2015

Respected banker Deepak parekh says bribes paid by corporations are disguised so well and look completely genuine or go through a large web of unidentifiable shell companies that the best of forensic accountants find it difficult to trace it

India’s GDP projected to grow at 7.4% in 2014-15

09 Feb 2015

Per capita income in the country is now estimated to grow 6.1 per cent in 2014-15 against the previous year`s estimate of 5.4 per cent, reaching a level of Rs74,193 in 2014-15 compared to Rs69,959 for the 2013-14 fiscal

India now claims to offer banking services to almost 100% of population

07 Feb 2015

Tata Motors sees 25.5% drop in Q3 profit; even JLR dips

07 Feb 2015

Tata Steel Q3 profit slumps 69% amid cheap imports

07 Feb 2015

Top diplomats to be evaluated on pushing ‘Make in India’

06 Feb 2015

Modi pushes ‘Make in India’ at meet with French minister Fabius

06 Feb 2015

Jaitley vows to stick by deficit target despite expansionism calls

06 Feb 2015

The government's top two economic advisers, Arvind Panagariya and Arvind Subramanian, have both advocated loosening deficit targets to allow public spending on infrastructure and help revive economic growth