Economy

On November 20, 2020, an Internal Working Group (IWG) constituted to “review extant ownership guidelines and corporate…

The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo and reverse rates unchanged at 4% and 3.35% respectively in…

The boundaries between manufacturing and services, and even agriculture, are becoming fuzzier. Manufacturing…

Nokia was once the leader of the world in mobile phone handsets. Its largest manufacturing plant was located in…

Bank failures have achieved a hattrick within a short period: the PMC Bank, the Yes Bank and now the Lakshmi Vilas Bank…

The RBI annual State finances study, released this year on Oct. 27, comes with the special theme it has titled: “Covid-…

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as ways of pushing…

Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract,…

There was a unanimous decision to hold the policy repo rate constant primarily because the headline inflation measured…

The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, which concluded its third meeting for 2020-21 on Friday, kept the policy rate…

This is the first time in India’s history that we are experiencing a steep recession without any adverse shock of…

Three farm bills passed by the parliament last week have become a bone of contention. At one level, they are a step in…

The economy shrank by nearly one fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the…

Two Indian initiatives have found places amongst the ten best global initiatives selected by the Rockefeller Foundation…

The past week has been dominated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remark alluding to an “act of God”. She was…