India's retail inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), eased to 4.31% in January 2025, a five-month low, compared to 5.22% in December. This decline was mainly due to slower food price...
The Union Budget 2025 has cheered the middle class, farmers, and MSME workers. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed a new income tax structure that offers considerable tax relief to...
The Economic Survey 2025 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on January 31, 2025, has predicted that the growth rate of GDP would be in the range of 6.3-6.8% in the fiscal year 2025-26.
As governments worldwide are looking for ways to stimulate economic growth and attract investment, the tax holiday has become one of the tools often used.
Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), recently shared his views on the rupee’s depreciation against the US dollar at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Economic experts say India's trade relationship in the last decade has increased dramatically, but an impending 'FX War' will adversely affect the world economy.
Market analysts say Donald Trump's probable win in the US presidential election has invited mixed responses about its implications on the Indian economy and also domestic equity markets.
New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday said that India is among the fastest-growing major economies, adding it was a matter of pride for everyone that the country has become...
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday released the Big Bang Numbers on the Indian economy as part of his Bi-Weekly Bharat newsletter for the fortnight of July 15-31 on the...
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the Nudge Theory, given by economist Richard Thaler, has been used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in...
New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that from being declared a fragile economy in 2013, India is now among the fastest growing economies in the world with...
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) India will have the world's second-largest economy by 2075, surpassing not only Japan and Germany but also the US, a new report has said.
Warangal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at the BRS government in his Warangal rally on Saturday while heaped praise on Telangana and its people and said the ‘contributions of Telangana and...
Chennai, June 15 (IANS) India will be the third largest contributor to the global gross domestic product (GDP) this year, Chief Economic Advisor, Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday.
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Tuesday expressed confidence that India will be among fastest growing economies in the world in 2023 which would grow...
Chennai, May 16 (IANS) With the Indian economy being a key contributor for Asian economic growth outperformance, the broad based recovery in demand runs counter to the weakness seen outside Asia,...
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that despite many global challenges, India is the fastest growing major economy today.
Gandhinagar: India’s economy is likely to grow 13 fold from its current size to become a $40 trillion economy by 2047, Reliance Industries chairperson Mukesh Ambani said on Tuesday.
As the European Union seems reluctant to throw Russia out of the SWIFT global interbank payments system - a massive network of more than 11,000 banks and other organisations in more than 200...
Business tycoon Ratan Tata on Saturday gave out a clarification saying a WhatsApp forward attributed to his name talking about “huge downfall of the economy due to corona” has “neither been said, nor...
Business tycoon Ratan Tata on Saturday gave out a clarification saying a WhatsApp forward attributed to his name talking about “huge downfall of the economy due to corona” has “neither been said, nor...
India can become a USD 5-trillion economy but the timeframe of achieving it is not certain, said State Bank of India chairman Rajnish Kumar on Saturday. He added that the target was possible with the...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation data shows that the urban unemployment rate in the country fell to 9.3 per cent during January-March 2019 from 9.8 per cent in April-June 2018...
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said the state of the economy was “deeply worrying” and that “all-round mismanagement”
Growth rate at 8 per cent, investment at 36 per cent, and agripreneurs, codification of labour laws and revamping of minerals exploration policy are the prescribed drivers for India to become a $5-...
By increasing productivity and reducing cost, Blockchain technology has the potential to create value of up to $5 billion in India in the next five years
Among developed nations, for the US, the cost of violence in terms of PPP was USD 2.67 trillion or 8 per cent of the GDP. For the UK, it was 312.27 billion, 7 per cent of GDP.
The biggest one comes as a threat to the inflation rate. Until now, India has witnessed a decline in inflation mainly due to a fall in global commodity prices.
More than any of the world’s largest economies, India’s major industries have displayed levels of resilience and growth that will buoy business confidence. 
The country has the best growth prospects among seven large economies of the world, including China and South Korea, a study done by a global logistics major.
The GDP growth is expected to rise to 7.3 per cent in 2018-19, making India again the world’s fastest growing economy
The much-awaited second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figures were released last week. It must have come as a relief to the Modi government that economic growth is finally on the upswing.
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