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Housing sales plunged 79 per cent to 19,038 units across eight major cities in April-June. (DC Photo)

Home prices across India fall 2.3 per cent in six months

As on Q2 2020, prices declined by 1.9 per cent for the 12-month period

16 Sept 2020 6:48 PM IST

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das. (PTI Photo)

RBI governor Shaktikant Das: Indian economy will recovery gradually

Indian economy contracted 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year

16 Sept 2020 1:11 PM IST

Rupee coin. (DECCAN CHRONICLE PHOTO)

NBFCs witness 15-20 per cent improvement in retail lending in last 2...

Most of the NBFCs are waiting for trends in collections in September given the end of the moratorium and the Kamath...

10 Sept 2020 10:50 AM IST

Life Insurance Corporation

Centre likely to sell 25 per cent stake in LIC; Rahul Gandhi slams...

The government is likely to float an IPO (Initial Public Offering) to raise the necessary amount of money

8 Sept 2020 2:38 PM IST

Reserve Bank of India announced a slew of measures to maintain market stability. (PTI Photo)

RBI rides to rescue, unveils steps to cool rising bond yields

The RBI has allowed an additional 2.5 per cent of deposits for banks as HTM for the second half of the current financial...

1 Sept 2020 12:28 PM IST

Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)

Finally, it falls to the farmer to rescue salvage India's parlous GDP

Growing at 3.4%, farm sector may be a safe haven for millions of corona refugees from urban India

1 Sept 2020 9:56 AM IST

The production of 8 core sectors had expanded by 2.6 per cent in July 2019. (PTI Photo)

Only the farmer bats for India as eight core sectors shrink 9.6%

Only the fertiliser industry continued to grow through the worst of the Covid months

31 Aug 2020 5:12 PM IST

Indian economy likely to see record quarterly slump as pandemic hits. (PTI Photo)

GDP to contract by 18.3% as economy set for weakest quarterly growth...

Economists predict a contraction of 8.1% and 1.0% in the September and December quarters respectively

31 Aug 2020 9:14 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chairs the 41st GST Council meeting via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Thursday, Aug 27, 2020. MoS for Finance Anurag Thakur and Finance Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey are also seen.

Centre writes to states on options of borrowing money to meet GST...

Compensation payment has been an issue since August 2019 with GST collections faltering. I

29 Aug 2020 7:59 PM IST

Items such as cereals and food grains when sold loose are GST-free, while the government imposes a five per cent GST on branded food grains and cereals.

Pandemic gives fillip to demand for cereals; 200 per cent increase in...

Cereals have witnessed increased demand from African countries and the Gulf region during the lock-down.

29 Aug 2020 1:18 PM IST

Indias general government debt-to-GDP ratio is likely to be at 80 per cent of GDP by FY30. (Representative Image)

Government debt-to GDP ratio to be at 80% by FY30: Report

The report also finds that the government support to real GDP growth in the 2020s decade would be lower than in the past...

27 Aug 2020 12:52 PM IST

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday warned banks that being overly risk averse will be self-defeating. (PTI Photo)

Extreme risk aversion can be self-defeating: RBI Governor warns banks

Rather than becoming averse to lending, banks have to improve their risk management and governance frameworks, Das said

27 Aug 2020 12:25 PM IST