Category: Economy
West Asia conflict may slow India’s growth, push up Inflation: SBI Chairman
State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Challa Sreenivasulu Setty has warned that the ongoing conflict in West Asia could drag on global growth and push…
RBI must let rupee depreciate; use liquidity tools, not rate hikes, to curtail inflation: Duvvuri Subbarao
Mumbai: Former RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao has said the central bank must allow some more depreciation in the rupee to help absorb external pressures, and…
Indian small businesses record strongest growth since COVID in 2025: CPA Australia survey
New Delhi: Indian small businesses recorded their strongest growth since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2025, with four out of five firms reporting expansion, even as…
NHAI lines up 17 highway assets spanning 1,692 km for monetisation in FY27
State-owned National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Thursday said it has identified 17 National Highway assets with a combined length of 1,692.5 km for…
Govt readies contingency plans to counter El Nino threat to kharif season: Shivraj Singh Chouhan
New Delhi: The Centre is fully prepared to mitigate any adverse impact of the El Nino weather phenomenon on this year’s kharif crop, Union Agriculture…
Rare earth, gas supply, aircraft parts: What’s inside the new IIP calculus as India revises base year
India is undertaking the revision of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and plans to release the new series on June 1, 2026, marking the tenth…
RBI’s dividend gives Govt fiscal breathing space amid crude oil pressures: Kotak Securities Anindya Banerjee
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) record dividend payout of Rs 2.87 lakh crore is expected to directly repair the government’s balance sheet at…
Government fully prepared to tackle El Nino impact on kharif crop: Chouhan
The government is fully prepared to tackle any adverse impact of El Nino on this year’s kharif crop, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said…
Piyush Goyal wraps up Canada visit focusing on India-Canada CEPA talks, $50 billion trade goal
New Delhi: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal highlighted the role of the Indo-Canadian community in strengthening bilateral economic relations and deepening people-to-people…
India may cheer an Iran deal, but peace in Hormuz won’t refill its emptying economic tank
A US-Iran peace deal will be cheered by governments around the world. But in India, critically dependent on the Strait of Hormuz for everything from…