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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde.(Photo:AP)

IMF's Lagarde: Trade protectionism threatens economic growth

IMF in January forecast global growth of 3.9 percent for this year.

11 April 2018 11:21 AM IST

Bolstered by the economic growth observed in 2017, talent acquisition witnessed an uptick across several sectors.

Hiring activity may rise in 2018 on robust economic growth: report

High demand for sales and marketing roles will continue into 2018.

3 April 2018 4:05 PM IST

Burj Khalifa, Dubai, the worlds tallest building.

Dubai keen to increase number of Indian tourists

In 2017, an estimated 2.07 million tourists from India visited Dubai, and they were not stop-over.

31 July 2018 12:27 AM IST

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