Government looking at cushioning slowdown due to demonetisation with sops and higher outlay for micro, small and medium enterprises, agriculture, and affordable housing.
Young, city-bred, successful, enthusiastic Indians are ditching their cars and cycling to work.
CBI has alleged in court that Kumar, an "influential" officer, was intimidating witnesses.
India's new policy commission has received a makeover and a dream team has been formed to head the Think Tank, NITI Aayog.
His view will be shaped by his perception of US world interests and India's economic performance relative to China.
China is keen to get Indian bullet train deals as it would provide a major opening for it to win projects abroad.
Assocham said even if an investment revival were to happen, it would be a time lag of at least 18 months before it reflects in the manufacturing sector.
Indian bond yields may not spike if the government opts to increase spending when it unveils its annual budget in late February.
Arun Jaitley addressed a post-Budget press conference.
Joint crack team of Maruti, Tata Motors, M&M to develop hybrid cars in India
Twitter is a great medium for political leaders to communicate with their supporters and engage with their opponents. Provided the tweets are coherent and sensible. So why is the Delhi chief minister tweeting illogical stuff about the PM, asks Sudhir Bisht.
Stepping up its attack on the Union Health Minister over the removal of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Chief Vigilance Officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday called for the immediate sacking or resignation of Harsh Vardhan.
The finance ministry has ruled out the proposal for the appointment of a chief operating officer (COO) of the rank of deputy governor in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), as the government feels no interim arrangements should be made for such high-profile appointments.
For a long time, the Indian economy has been drifting without a credible monetary anchor.
If money allocations, investment commitments are a sign of better things to come, the state can be optimistic.
Ponzi schemes have characteristics that the informed investor can spot easily.
Basu said there are a couple of big ticket items on the agenda.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday debunked results of various opinion polls giving some weightage to Aam Admi Party and edge to BJP in the December 4 assembly election, saying their projections do not reflect the ground realities as people are likely to go for the Congress which fulfilled their aspirations.
As India's online population crosses 450 million, e-commerce ventures are trying to grab a pie of online sales estimated to hit $48 billion by 2020.
India's plans to relax foreign direct investment (FDI) rules across a broad spectrum of industries have received the final approval from the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA).
The opposition has attacked the Modi government over the National Democratic Alliance's last full-fledged budget before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
'The Indian economy has been subsidised by the poor.'
'Four years into his tenure and Modi still has no idea what is wrong with the agriculture sector!'
The Modi PMO is like none other: It is staffed by people who are so low profile that the only dominant personality is the Prime Minister's.
As Modi completes a year in office, his cuts in federal welfare spending on the poorest of India's 1.25 bn people are coming in for sharp criticism.
Why are states important to win for national parties? What is the significance of local power? That was what we should have a look at because the Congress has been squeezed out of power in more states today than it has ever been in history.
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Punjab's voters are dissatisfied with the Akali Dal-BJP ruling combine. The Congress does not have a strong agenda on which to fight the 2017 assembly polls -- fertile ground for the AAP to step in.
The Budget may see new rural schemes and stepping up of funding towards existing programmes like MNREGA, rural housing, irrigation projects and crop insurance.
From parity in 1980, China's economy has outgrown India's fivefold to $10 trillion
A week after taking office, Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers have ambitious promises to keep.
The opposition parties snatched the high-profile Kairana LS seat in from BJP with a united force.
According to market experts, GST Bill, movement of the rupee and uncertain global cues amid expected rate cut by the US Fed will dictate the movement of the markets.
With politicians boosting their social media presence in the poll season using fake online followers, Facebook has started cracking down on fraudulent accounts showing suspicious high number of 'likes'.
Shiv Sena made it clear it will not support the land acquisition law in its present form.
The best of India's brains are instead busy solving the world's problems (I deliberately exaggerate a bit to drive home the point), as our policies incentivise them to do so.
India's rank was further amplified by the collapse of the South American and Russian economies.
