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Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto India’s economy grew at a higher pace of 7.7% during 2025-26 as compared to 7.1% in 2024-25, according to government data released on Friday (June 5, 2026). In January-March period of the 2025-26 fiscal year, the gross domestic product (GDP) has been estimated to…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi, on September 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has expressed confidence that revenue buoyancy driven by spurt in consumption will take care of the estimated GST shortfall of ₹48,000 crore following reduction in tax rates on a host…
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Growth in the manufacturing sector quickened to 7.7% in the April-June 2025 quarter, coming on top of a high base of 7.6% in the same quarter of the previous year. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images India’s economic growth rate in the first quarter (April-June) of the current financial year quickened to a five-quarter high of…
Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The story so far: It has been what one may call, a bittersweet year for the economy, with a sweet first half, when growth surprised everyone, including the government. And a difficult latter half by the end of which the Reserve Bank of…
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India’s July-September growth slides: what options does RBI have? | Business Matters | Video Credit: The Hindu Economic growth fell sharply to 5.4% for the quarter ended September. The important question is, what next? Are we looking at a prolonged slowdown? And as importantly, will the Reserve Bank cut rates, something that observers have been…
Bhubaneswar: The slowing of India’s economic growth to a 15-month low of 6.7 per cent in the April-June quarter was due to “lower” government spending in the wake of the enforcement of the model code of conduct for the recent Lok Sabha polls, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Saturday. The RBI had projected a…
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GDP: Growth in Asia’s third-largest economy had been well above 7 per cent during previous quarters. India’s gross domestic product slowed to a quarter low of 6.7 per cent in April-June this fiscal against 8.2 per cent in the year-ago period, mainly due to poor showing by the farm sector, shows government data. Growth in Asia’s…
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Budget 2024: Minister Pankaj Chaudhary was among the first to arrive at North Block. New Delhi: Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said that the first Union Budget of the third Modi government will be based on his mantra of “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas.” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the full budget for…
India is moving ahead towards 8% GDP growth in a sustained manner, said RBI chief. (File) Mumbai: India is at the threshold of a major structural shift in its growth trajectory, highlighted Shaktikanta Das, Reserve Bank of India Governor, on Tuesday during his address at the 188th AGM (Annual General Meeting) of Bombay Chamber of…
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh | Photo Credit: PTI As financial markets went for a tumble on June 4 after the trends of the Lok Sabha poll results showed that the BJP was not getting a majority on its own, the Congress said the markets were given an artificial booster dose by the exit polls and…