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India can sustain 8% growth, says Lahiri

Fiscal deficit drops in August

A marginal increase in tax collections coupled with austerity measures to control expenditure helped government to limit fiscal deficit to 34 per cent of the budgeted target by August.

Crash keeps North Block on its toes

Govt not worried about high oil prices

India's large foreign exchange reserves can cushion a short-term jump in oil prices, but a long drawn conflict in Iraq could hurt the economy

'Inflation to be less than 5% in FY05'

The finance ministry expects the inflation to be less than 5.0 per cent in this fiscal after it was restricted at an average 5.5 per cent during 2003-04.

'Bengal has a lot to learn from Gujarat'

'Look at the number of billionaires, the number of new billionaires in India.' 'Adani and Ambani are not the only ones.' 'What's wrong with people making money as long as it benefits us?'

'BJP's Chanakyas mismanaged the Bengal exercise'

'It's a classic conflict between the old and the new BJP. The new BJP is made up of turncoats and the old of veterans who slogged for decades when the BJP barely existed in West Bengal'

Budget: It's important to spend all that money well

India is only on the starting block.

Bengal win will put Mamata in race for PM

The TMC expects to emerge victorious by way of a majority of minority votes and a minority of majority votes, notes Arun Bhatnagar, a retired IAS officer.

The 5 men who will decide how funds get shared by Centre and states

The panel will also recommend a fiscal consolidation road map for the central and state governments, study the impact of GST on the divisible pool, and propose performance-based incentives for states.

'Public investment to be main fuel for India's growth'

The report stated the 2013 land Act was a step forward.

Why West Bengal is lagging behind other states

West Bengal was the second-most industrialised state in terms of value added and first in terms of number of factories and employment even in the mid-1960s. With a severe and long process of deindustrialisation, it lost its primacy.

Move forward on infrastructure, not back

Shifting to a PPP model could repeat the errors of the past

Who should the next RBI Governor be? Vote now!

Will Arundhati Bhattacharya be the RBI's first woman governor? Or will Urjit Patel succeed Raghuram Rajanas RBI governor when his term ends on September 4?

Economists in India: Endangered species?

The pipeline for well-qualified and experienced policy economists at senior levels of government has broken, leading to a growing dearth of suitable candidates for top economist positions.