
New Delhi: A sharp slowdown in India's foreign trade added to the woes of Asia's third-largest economy and piled more pressure on the weak coalition government to take steps to boost economic growth. Indian exports inched up 3.23 per cent to $24.5 billion in April from a year earlier after falling in March, data released on Friday confirmed, a far cry from the more than 20 per cent growth recorded...

05:22 AM, Jun 02, 2012

New Delhi: Against the backdrop of slowing economy and perception of policy paralysis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday sought to give a push to mega projects of over Rs 1,000 crore by putting in place a mechanism to track their progress and address hurdles. Waking up to delays caused to large projects on account of clearances, Singh announced that the Investment Tracking System would submit quarterly reports so that...

02:39 AM, Jun 02, 2012

New Delhi: Five global financial services majors, including Morgan Stanley, Stanchart and Citi, have lowered India's growth prospects to 5.7-6.4 per cent for the current fiscal, a day after markets received a "shock" from nine-year low GDP growth of 6.5 per cent for 2011-12. In their reports to clients worldwide, most of them blamed policy inaction by the government as a major roadblock to the Indian economy, which had expanded...

12:39 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Prime Minister Economic Advisory Council chairman C Rangarajan has admitted that the economic situation is critical. ...

10:55 PM, Jun 01, 2012

New Delhi/Mumbai/Nashik: The dramatic drop in Indian economic growth isn't bothering the likes of Mahendra Saraf. A farmer, he works in a sector that has seen growth shrink to 1.7 per cent in the first three months of 2012 against 7.5 per cent in the same period last year. But Mr Saraf, 26, is confident the blow to his profits will be cushioned by government agricultural subsidies. "Global and domestic...

01:02 AM, Jun 01, 2012

For the year, growth dropped to a three year low - 6.5 per cent against a robust 7.8 per cent last year. ...

11:57 PM, May 31, 2012

With growth sharply falling and exacerbating India's economic woes, was Bharat Bandh called by the BJP and the Left a thoughtless mistake? ...

09:35 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front hit out at the UPA government over falling the GDP. BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, "It's high time for the government to take concrete steps. The government has run out of ideas." Talking about policy paralysis, Jaitley said, "The government needs to build up consensus on policies within the party, alliance and the Opposition and come up with a proper...

04:08 PM, May 31, 2012

Mumbai: India's growth story is slowly losing its sheen and has hit a three-year low with the GDP growing at just 6.5 per cent in 2011-12, as compared to an impressive 8.4 per cent in the previous fiscal. The GDP growth in the January-March quarter, 2011-12, was just 5.3 per cent compared to 9.2 per cent in the same period in 2010-11. According to a CNBC-TV18 poll, the Q4 GDP...

11:26 AM, May 31, 2012

Bangalore: India's annual economic growth probably held steady in the January-March quarter at 6.1 per cent and the global economic slowdown, government policy paralysis and a record low currency suggest little chance of a pick up in the current quarter. A poll of 31 economists produced a median forecast of 6.1 per cent, unchanged from the growth of the October-December quarter. Forecasts ranged from 5.5 per cent to 7.3 per...

08:31 AM, May 31, 2012

Noida: Sher Singh has not found work in weeks. The 33-year-old day-labourer " who lives in one of India's largest industrial districts outside Delhi " says things were different a year ago. "Every day I would get up to three different jobs," he says, leaning against a rickety wall along Harola Labour Chowk road, where hundreds of labourers gather each morning to look for work. "I used to make Rs6,000...

12:17 AM, May 29, 2012

Kolkata: With key UPA ally Trinamool Congress averse to FDI in retail, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Centre is trying to build a consensus on it and other contentious issues. "We are working to build a policy consensus on a number of pending issues such as introduction of Goods and Services Tax, further liberalisation of FDI, including in retail, and deepening and strengthening of financial markets for...

04:33 AM, May 28, 2012

Manipal: Amid persisting global uncertainties, Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee on Saturday said that India's domestic demand, high savings rate and regulatory mechanisms make it a resilient economy. He, however, emphasised upon the need for increased coordination among countries to realise collective gains in the face of global economic woes. Mukherjee further said that performance of Asian economies in short to medium-term is crucial not only to keep the engine of...

10:48 PM, May 26, 2012

Amid raging protests by parties cutting across the political spectrum for a partial rollback on the petrol price hike, Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu has said that a rollback of any kind will hurt India's fiscal deficit target badly, leading to price increase in general. In an interview with Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', the Chief Economic Advisor said that oil price regulations had to be made in such a...

08:10 PM, May 26, 2012

Guwahati: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday said the country's economy was resilient to withstand global pressures in the current economic slowdown. "India has the potential to come out of this difficult situation because of its inherent strengths. The strengths are the purchasing power of 400 million middle class citizens and 600 million youth willing to take up challenging missions," he said at the 14th convocation of...

04:42 PM, May 25, 2012