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  'India moving towards great power strategy under PM Modi's leadership', says Chinese media

  India | January 05, 2024 8:58 IST

  China praises India: According to the author Zhang Jiadong, the shift reflected India's ambitions to escape its historical colonial shadow and position itself as a global influencer, politically and culturally.

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  Unemployment rate declined to 10 pc from 17.8 pc in 2017-18: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

  Business | December 07, 2023 21:45 IST

  The retail inflation based on the consumer price index (CPI) had touched a high of 7.8 per cent in April 2022. However, now it has been close to the Reserve Bank's target of 4 per cent.

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  India's economic growth likely to be better than IMF's projections next fiscal year, claims CEA

  India | October 31, 2022 17:43 IST

  India's economic growth: The International Monetary Fund recently predicted real growth for India at 6.8% this year and 6.1% the following year.

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  Moody's slashes India's economic growth forecast to 7.7% for 2022

  Business | September 01, 2022 13:43 IST

  Business news updates: This is a sharp 1.1 percentage points cut from the growth projection of 8.8 per cent for current year made in May by Moody's.

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  Swift recovery expected due to limited impact of lockdown on economy: Survey

  Business | July 11, 2021 13:06 IST

  India's economy is expected to see a swift recovery from the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 as lockdowns were largely designed to limit social gatherings and did not affect economic activities much.

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  India's weak household consumption to curb economic growth: Moody's

  Business | December 16, 2019 12:46 IST

  Moody's Investors Service on Monday said that India's weak household consumption will curb economic growth and weigh on the credit quality of Indian issuers in a range of sectors. Moody's has lowered its GDP growth projection for India for the fiscal year ending March 2020 to 4.9 per cent from 5.8 per cent.

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  4.5 per cent GDP growth rate unacceptable, worrisome: Manmohan

  India | November 29, 2019 20:24 IST

  Former prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday the GDP growth rate of 4.5 per cent was unacceptable and worrisome, and urged his successor Narendra Modi to set aside "deep-rooted suspicion" of society and nurse India back to harmonious, mutually trustworthy society that can help the economy soar.

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  India's economic growth slows to 4.5% in July-September

  Business | November 29, 2019 18:55 IST

  India's economic growth has slowed to 4.5 per cent in July-September from 7 per cent a year ago, government data said on Friday.

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  Twitterati flood Nirmala Sitharaman with advice to rekindle economic growth

  Business | June 02, 2019 9:27 IST

  Inundated with congratulatory messages, the Twitter handle of the new Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs also contains in-depth advices on the next level of economic reforms and growth-oriented moves that she should undertake.

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  United Nation lowers India's growth rate by 0.6 per cent but at 7 per cent it hangs on to the top-spot

  Business | May 22, 2019 9:28 IST

  The IMF cut India's growth projections for this year by 0.2 per cent from the 7.5 per cent made in January to 7.3 per cent. It projected next year's growth at 7.5 per cent, though lower than the earlier 7.7 projection. The Asian Development Bank said India's growth rate would be 7.2 per cent this year and 7.3 per cent next year.

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  Economic growth of 6 pc in FY15 is possible: Chidambaram

  May 01, 2014 16:27 IST

  New Delhi: India's economy is likely to recover and achieve 6 per cent growth in 2014-15 on the back of sound economic policies and a pick-up in investment, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.“If investments

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