GDP
- Business
GDP growth in 2020-21 likely to be in negative: RBI Guv
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank on India (RBI) on Friday said India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be in negative territory in 2020-21 as the outbreak of coronavirus has disrupted…
- Business
Moody’s slashes India GDP growth in 2020 to 2.5 pc
New Delhi: Moody’s Investors Service on Friday slashed its estimate of India’s GDP growth during 2020 calendar year to 2.5 per cent from an earlier estimate of 5.3 per cent,…
- Pakistan
Financial inclusion of women can boost Pak’s GDP by 33%
Islamabad: Pakistan can boost its gross domestic product (GDP) by 33 percent by ensuring the financial inclusion of women and girls, according to speakers at a youth dialogue here. The dialogue…
- Hyderabad
Telangana’s debt to GDP ratio second lowest in country: KTR
Hyderabad: Contrary to the allegations levelled by the Opposition Congress and BJP, Telangana, according to the Central government, has maintained strong financial discipline and emerged as the State with the…
- Politics
Rahul Gandhi targets PM Modi over inflation, GDP
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday targetted the Centre over increasing inflation and fall in gross domestic product (GDP) growth, while stating that the Prime Minister and his…
- Business
States’ aggregate fiscal deficit to rise to 3 pc of GDP in FY20
Mumbai: The aggregate fiscal deficit of states will touch 3 per cent gross domestic product (GDP) in FY20 against the budgeted figure of 2.6 per cent, India Ratings and Research…
- Business
‘Saved’ economy from disaster, asserts PM Modi
New Delhi: PM Modi, while speaking at the inaugural session of ‘100 years of Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India)’, claimed that the Indian Central Government has…
- India
Low GDP not for the first time, economy to bounce back: Modi
New Delhi: Noting that the economy has gone through ups and downs in the past too, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday cited macro economic data from previous governments to…
- India
India has rarely seen GDP growth below 5% since ’91: Garg
New Delhi: Expressing concern over the alarming fall in GDP growth rate, former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg in a blog post said India has rarely witnessed a sub-5 per cent…
- India
Economy in coma, says Congress as GDP growth falls to 4.5%
New Delh: The Congress on Friday slammed the government after India’s GDP growth rate went down to 4.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2019-20 saying that the economy has…
- Stock Market
Sensex turns red after RBI lowers GDP forecast to 6.1 pc
Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices reversed early morning trends and turned red on Friday afternoon after the Reserve Bank of India cut repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.15 percent…
- Politics
Congress leaders hit out govt as Q1 GDP growth falls to 5%
New Delhi: Congress leaders hit out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over the growth rate of 5 percent in April to June quarter. In a tweet on Saturday,…
- Business
Domestic and global headwinds to drag FY20 GDP growth to 6yr low
New Delhi: India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) on Wednesday revised India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in current financial year downwards to 6.7 per cent — marking a six-year low…
- Business
Fiscal Deficit at 0.75% of GDP in April: DoE figures
NEW DELHI: Fiscal deficit for the month of April was at Rs 1,57,048 crore which is 22 percent of the budgeted estimate for the year 2019-20, slightly lower than what…
- Business
Slowdown in agriculture, manufacturing may pull GDP down to 6.6 pc: Fitch
NEW DELHI: Global rating agency Fitch Ratings has cut forecast for India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 6.6 per cent for the current fiscal 2019-20, from 6.8 per cent…
- Business
GDP overestimated, growth during 2012-17 at 4.5%: ex-CEA
NEW DELHI: The growth numbers have come back to haunt the government with former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian also questioning the change in GDP calculation methods and numbers…
- Politics
Mayawati tears into Centre over unemployment rate
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday hit out at the Centre expressing dissatisfaction over the increasing unemployment rate in the country that has risen to a record…
- Stock Market
Equity indices open in green, Sensex up 160 points
Mumbai: The key Indian equity indices opened on a positive note on Monday due to buying activity in banking, FMCG and oil and gas stocks. At 9.35 a.m., the Sensex…
- India
Unemployment rate hits 45-year high
New Delhi: It is now official that the country has indeed been witnessing jobless growth. Months after rejecting the claim by a leaked report that India’s unemployment rate had touched…
- Business
New government formation, GDP data to dictate equity trends
MUMBAI: The formation of the new government at the Centre along with GDP data and derivatives expiry will dictate the trends of the Indian equity market in the coming week.…
- Business
GDP growth in Q3 of 2018-19 pegged at 6.6%
New Delhi: The economic growth of India slowed to a low of 6.6 percent in October to December period of the current fiscal year 2018-19, according to government data released…
- Business
Government doles out sops for MSME, unorganised sectors
NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced a 2 per cent interest subvention for the MSME sector and Rs 3,000 monthly pension for workers in the unorganised…
- Stock Market
Indian equities open lower despite good GDP forecast
New Delhi: Equity benchmarks opened lower on Tuesday with market breadth leaning in favour of sellers. At 10:00 hrs, the S&P BSE Sensex Index was down 140.89 points or 0.40…
- Business
China lowers 2017 GDP growth
Beijing: China has lowered its final 2017 GDP growth from 6.9 per cent, announced initially, to 6.8 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said on Friday. China…
- India
GDP in fast lane, ahead of general elections
NEW DELHI: Recovering from the damage caused by the demonetisation and the goods and services tax (GST), India’s economy is forecast to grow at its fastest pace in three years…
