Economy - general

Kaushik Basu makes strong pitch for FDI in retail

13 Jun 2012

Indian economy to grow at 6.9% this year: World Bank

13 Jun 2012

US exempts India, 6 other nations from Iran oil import sanctions

12 Jun 2012

US said it is continuing talks with China and Singapore and exemptions may be granted before the 28 June deadline for the sanctions to take effect

Is the Indian economy a 'fallen angel'?

12 Jun 2012

The ongoing economic downturn is not a typical cyclical slowdown, but the problems that forced the Indian economy to this difficult corner are very evident. At the same time, it is difficult to accept that the economy has fallen into a structural growth trough, entirely due to domestic policy failures, says Shivshanker Verma

Factory output growth for April is 0.1 %, IIP shows

12 Jun 2012

The economic turnaround promised by the government is nowhere in sight, as production figures remain depressing

Pranab to meet bank chiefs today, discuss NPAs

12 Jun 2012

Indirect tax collections up 16 per cent in May 2012

11 Jun 2012

India on turnaround path, says Pranab Mukherjee

11 Jun 2012

`Foreign institutional investors have poured in $12 billion in the first five months of the current calendar year (up to 9 June 2012) as against FII inflows of $8.3 billon in the full calendar year 2011’

2012-13 to be turnaround year for Indian economy: Mukherjee

11 Jun 2012

Indian economy showing signs of fatigue: OECD

11 Jun 2012

The assessments for India and China, based on composite leading indicators, currently point towards economic activity below long-term trend, OECD said

India could be first BRIC country to lose investment rating: warns S&P

11 Jun 2012

GDP growth will be well under 6.5 % this year: business leaders

11 Jun 2012

FIIs pulling funds out of India at rapid rate

11 Jun 2012

India’s record grain stock starts to rot

09 Jun 2012

Reports said foodgrains worth about Rs2 crore stacked in the open by the Food Corporation of India in Kota, and Sriganganagar in Rajasthan got drenched in rain water on Wednesday

India can achieve 7 per cent growth this year, says Montek

09 Jun 2012

How long can reforms wait, asks SEBI chief Sinha

09 Jun 2012

IIT-Kanpur rejects Sibal proposal; to hold own entrance test

09 Jun 2012

Karnataka gets proposals worth Rs5,00,000-cr on first day of investors’ meet

08 Jun 2012

CBI to grill India Cements' chief in Jagan assets case

08 Jun 2012

The CBI says that India Cements invested in these companies in an illegitimate quid pro quo when Jagan’s late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was the chief minister

Reports raise a stink over plan panel’s Rs35-lakh toilet renovation

07 Jun 2012

Direct tax collections up 13.02 per cent at Rs5,90,077 crore in 2011-12

07 Jun 2012

Pension bill shelved despite Congress promises

07 Jun 2012

The government today once again deferred the pension reform bill, due to the opposition of the Trinamool Congress, a key coalition partner, to pension reforms

Corporates expect rupee to slide to 58 per dollar: ING Vysya survey

04 Jun 2012

Pranab confident of meeting indirect tax collection target

04 Jun 2012

Economic situation not as grim as in 1991: Pranab

04 Jun 2012

Stung by the economic comparison with 1991, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said "there is no reason to believe that we are going back to the situation of 1991 because our fundamentals are very strong"