If the fiscal stimulus put in place by emerging economies such as India and China in the aftermath of the world’s worst financial crisis of 2008 cost...

Private sector investment in important sectors such as infrastructure, food security and climate change mitigation has seldom been on a desirable...

With a compact cabinet crew in place, the Modi government has made the right head-start in getting into the brass-tacks without wasting time and...

The return of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in particular in an electrifying electoral result that took...

Once the final tally is counted and the formation of the new government gets under way in the ensuing couple of days, the inescapable priority duly...

With more than two-thirds of the country’s crude oil being imported at wildly varying rates in the global oil market, India can ill-afford to remain...

As the nation is on the cusp of a change at the helms of administration with the outcome of the poll after mid-May throwing up any odd combination of...

The brouhaha over the RBI’s latest grant of ‘in-principle’ approval to two private players for getting into banking business on the eve of polls...

Having had the unique privilege of presenting several general budgets of the country as the finance minister first way back in 1996-1998 and twice...

India’s engineering goods export is one of the very few segments that did acquit themselves commendably in the current fiscal, even though the overall...

The country’s modest export growth of 6.3 per cent during the current fiscal (2013-2014) with estimated merchandise export turnover of 326 billion...

A paradox and parody without parallel in bilateral relations of any two neighbouring nations is that no sooner they resolved to bury the hatchet and...