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Finance
How coronavirus threatens to derail years of effort to control India govt debt
When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the annual budget in February, a little factoid went largely unnoticed and...
Economy
Flashback 2019: The year when the economy took a hard right turn towards turmoil
Soon after winning a second term in May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a target to boost the Indian economy’s ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Why India needs a more meaningful disinvestment strategy
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office for a second five-year term, the government’s policy think-tank Niti...
Finance
What India Inc, taxpayers can expect from Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden budget
Last week, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as India’s new finance minister, a deluge of...
Finance
How bonus shares, buybacks and dividends by PSUs are propping up govt's coffers
From 2009-10 to 2013-14, when the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in the saddle, only one state-run company...
Finance
Will macro headwinds knock India off its growth path?
Calendar 2017 was a year of contradictions for the Indian economy. Even as economic growth slipped in the aftermath of ......





