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Positive start for domestic stock markets lent support to rupee. (Photo: PTI)

Trade war risk, rising oil costs seen keeping rupee near record low:...

Rupee hit an all-time low of 69.09 per dollar last week and is the worst-performing currency in Asia this year.

7 July 2018 10:14 AM IST

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman during a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: Asian Age)

Despite IMF's projection, India among fastest growing economies: FM

Sitharaman is in Washington to attend the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund or IMF and the World Bank.

18 Oct 2019 9:26 AM IST

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday approved a USD 6 billion loan for Pakistan. (Photo: AFP)

IMF says India worked on fundamentals but certain problems need to be...

Georgieva said there has been 'very strong growth' in India over last years and IMF is projecting reasonably strong...

18 Oct 2019 9:13 AM IST

The argument put forward by the leaders of the BJP and others was that India did not depend on exports for its economic growth, and that the huge domestic market and the consumption it entailed was good enough to keep the economy in shape and the global developments were marginal. (Representational image)

Downgrades rise for firms in H1: Raters

Declining profitability and stretch in working capital cycles also were reasons for the downgrades.

2 Oct 2019 1:57 AM IST

A night shelter in Delhi

And welfare for all: Choosing happiness over populism

The focus here is not solely on economic growth but on economic growth plus happiness, and needs an incremental...

27 Nov 2019 2:21 AM IST

Desperate situations call for desperate measures, which are coming now, but only after the hubris of the reelection-dominated July Budget dissipated somewhat and those producing goods and offering services are being recognised as pivotal drivers of the economy.

India GDP growth in Q2 at 4.7 pc; FY20 forecast at 5.6 pc: Report

The Indian economy expanded 5 per cent in April-June, its slowest annual pace since 2013.

26 Nov 2019 3:57 PM IST

Nirmala Sitharaman said the governments efforts last time were thwarted by the poor numbers in the Upper House. (Photo: File)

Government to sell stake in five top PSUs

The decision taken on Wednesday could be seen as a precursor to more such moves in future.

21 Nov 2019 1:32 AM IST

Indian economic growth has steadily slowed to a six-year low of 5.0 per cent in the April-June quarter from an 8.1 per cent peak in the January-March quarter of 2018.

SBI, DBS signal growth rate set to dip further

The SBI research report was, however, hopeful that the economic growth rate will pick up pace in 2020-21 to 6.2 per...

13 Nov 2019 3:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

PM Modi to attend Brics meet November 13

Brasilia summit will be Prime Minister's 6th Brics participation.

8 Nov 2019 6:46 AM IST

Shaktikanta Das

RBI pegs GDP down to 5 per cent, no rate cut

The policy repo rate since February was cut in every policy, cumulatively easing by 1.35 per cent or by 135 basis points...

6 Dec 2019 3:22 AM IST

The previous high quarterly GDP growth was recorded in July-September period in 2014-15 at 8.4 per cent. (Representational Image)

GDP growth rate for 2017-18 revised upwards to 7.2 per cent

Real GDP or GDP at constant (2011-12) prices for 2017-18 and 2016-17 stand at Rs 131.80 lakh crore and Rs 122.98 lakh...

31 Jan 2019 6:04 PM IST

For FY 18, the fiscal deficit target was supposed to be 3 per cent but it may choose the upper band of 3.5 percent in the Union Budget.

Here's what to expect from 2019-2020 interim budget

The government is expected to project economic growth of around 7.5 per cent for the next financial year.

31 Jan 2019 2:16 PM IST