Global economy’s ‘growing pains’ in 2013 has forced IMF to slash its earlier projections for all economies – advanced, emerging and other developing –...

July has opened on a grim note for the Indian economy in 2013-2014, after the setbacks of the first quarter (April-June) with a slower growth...

The growing irrelevance of G-8 in a world so vastly different from the ‘cold war’ days of mid-1970s – when it was launched, on France’s initiative, as...

United Progressive Alliance-II’s performance, somewhat negative overall, had not matched the promises it had made in 2009 though the electoral...

Like M Karunanidhi trying to catch up with issues and demands so as not to be outsmarted by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief...

A fter delivering some grim messages with a sombre outlook for the economy in 2013-14 in its Macro-Economic Survey, the Reserve Bank has kept up with...

Karnataka, the first of five states to go to polls this year ahead of the Lok Sabha election 2014, looks like returning a faction-ridden Congress with...

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) semi-annual World Economic Outlook sees marginal improvement in global prospects in 2013 with gradual recovery...

Barring one variable – fiscal deficit control – Finance Minister Chidambaram’s much-touted reforms and pep talks to ginger up the economy, which had...

Amid wide expectations with growth at a decade low, and sustained pressures from the finance minister, the Reserve Bank of India  (RBI) further eased...

Having earned kudos for his balancing act, Finance Minister Chidambaram is up against the challenge of getting some early positives by way of investor...

Elections not being far away, Finance Minister P Chidambaram designed his fiscal exercise for 2013-2014 in a way that should appeal to people in...