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Growth takes a back seat
6 April 2016 3:25 AM ISTEntering its third fiscal year, the Modi Government has been at pains to demonstrate its undiminished reforming zeal and cataloguing a whole range of...
Multi-cornered contests likely in TN
15 March 2016 2:23 AM ISTDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) leader Vijaykant’s decision to contest this year’s Tamil Nadu Assembly elections on his own has created...
CHINA’S STEERING OF G-20
7 March 2016 1:46 AM ISTTimes could hardly be more unpropitious than at present for China to be at the helm of G-20 when its own slowdown, tumbling asset market and volatile...
‘High growth’ cannot shield challenges
5 March 2016 2:58 AM ISTClose on the heels of a politically-loaded Union Budget, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reminded India of key macro-economic challenges...
Union Budget aimed at rural India
2 March 2016 8:39 AM ISTThe third Budget of the Narendra Modi Government at its mid-point takes care to shift emphasis to farmers and agriculture, ahead of a round of state...
Getting economy back on growth rails
13 Feb 2016 2:21 AM ISTIndia, and indeed the world, awaits to see how our “fastest-growing economy” would at last move forward in the new fiscal year 2016-17, from a...
Uphill task to kick-start growth
22 Jan 2016 3:05 AM ISTGlobal markets turned volatile from the start of the New Year and world growth, which slowed down to 2.5 percent (market-based exchange rate), in 2015...
2016: China still the mover and shaker in 2016
4 Jan 2016 1:04 AM ISTIt would be a fallacy to write off China, Asia’s mighty economy, as no longer the prime mover of global growth nor its potential to shake the world...
Reforms drag amid growing tensions
30 Dec 2015 3:02 AM ISTThe Modi Government, with its majoritarian streaks, looks increasingly vulnerable to political pressures after 19 months in office. Another session...
A wake-up call to Modi and BJP
14 Nov 2015 3:17 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi has shown himself to be a silent spectator, often on crucial occasions of public disquiet, whether over the “growing...
Global economy in the midst of fear
11 Oct 2015 3:39 AM ISTAt the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Lima (Peru) on October 9-10, the finance ministers of 188 member-countries are grappling with a weakened...
India faces tough external environment
9 Oct 2015 2:57 AM ISTBy mid-year, India has realised that its economy is grossly under-performing, well below the expectations raised in the Union Budget for <g...