Moody's assigns a 'Baa3' rating on India, with a stable outlook.
Qatar is the world's richest country in terms of per capita income.
The findings of the report showed consumer spending falling for the first time in over four decades in 2017-18. The government has, however, termed it a "draft" report, reports Somesh Jha.
Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are at second and third spot, whereas Uttar Pradesh and Bihar remained at the bottom.
MSI's exports increased by 54.34 per cent to 14,386 units in January, from 9,321 units in the year-ago period.
Who is a poor Indian? One who earns below Rs 35 a day? Or one whose salary is in four figures? While the debate rages, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, the organisation that governs the affairs of the Zoroastrian community in Bombay, has said that any Parsi who earns less than Rs 90,000 a month (or Rs 10.8 lakh a year) is poor and therefore eligible for its help in finding a house.
Fast paced urbanisation has taken a toll on the environment.
In 10 years from 1995 to 2005, the military expenditure in South Asia increased by 50 per cent, and one in every 10 military personnel in the world are in this part of the globe, a United States report has said.
Hooda said he accepts the decision taken by the party high command and will make all efforts to form a Congress government in the state.
How China's all powerful Communist party bungled the response to the coronavirus crisis.
While India's human development index has improved, absolute performance levels aren't satisfactory, says T N Ninan.
The average assets of an MP are now 345.8 times that of an annual income of a tax-filing individual, reports Sachin P Mampatta.
Getting electricity connection in a new building or a new factory is not an easy task.
'China need not worry about a truly 'resurgent India'.' 'It's not going to happen.'
'It may take two years for the economy to return to normal.' 'We should ensure that the vulnerable do not dig into their savings or give up their assets because that will set them back by several years.'
Besides, as urbanisation spreads, the country will consume more wheat, pulses and less rice and coarse cereals in the coming years.
The third BRIC summit in Sanya, China, on Thursday will have a new member: South Africa.
From being ranked at 56 last year, India now stands at 62, according to INSEAD and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and global business school INSEAD.
Technology market research firm Tech Market View said the contract, which is one of Wipro's largest deals group-wide, signals the growing influence of offshore-centric IT-BPO players in large scale UK outsourcing market.
Companies, so far, were constrained by the provisions of Articles 370 and 35A, which restricted the purchase of land and hiring manpower.
The industrialised world must work fast.
India's curve, yet to flatten vis-a-vis countries with similar or more conservative plans to ease restrictions, still points to 'exponential growth', despite India having tested much fewer people.
Consumption per capita was 5.6 times less in a month for the bottom ten per cent of the population than the top 10 per cent in rural areas during 2009-10.
'We are at $2.7 trillion and 2024 is not far away.' 'The country will need to grow by 9% every year for 5 years continuously and raise the aggregate investment rate to 38% of GDP to achieve the government's target of turning India into a $5 trillion economy.' 'Given the fact that we are only growing at about 5% and our investment rates are only about 30%, it may take a number of years before we can reach that targeted level.'
'How do we ensure that the unlocking, which is desperately needed for earning income and livelihood, will not create ugly spikes in the infection rates?' 'And if it does, what then?'asks Omkar Goswami.
India owns over 18,000 tonnes of above ground gold stocks worth approximately $800 billion and representing at least 11 per cent of global stock, according to estimates of World Gold Council.
Beneath the feel-good is an environment that breeds bubbles.
Indians spend a higher percentage of their earnings on food consumption, compared with other countries globally, Ramachandra N Galla, chairman of Amara Raja Group, said.
IFFCO beat competition from among the 523 cooperatives from 30 counties that were surveyed for the agriculture and food industries sector.
Major carmakers in the country are loading barrels for the coming battle in the field, reports Arnab Dutta.
Tata Consultancy Services has become the second-largest insurance business process outsourcing provider in the UK, after winning two deals worth 250 million pound (around Rs1,800 crore).
'The Swedish government would consider who will live, who will not die, in rationing coronavirus healthcare!' 'This means the 'biological age' would supersede the patient's chronological age as a potential guideline,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
Barack Obama's staff could not have chosen a better venue than Humayun's Tomb for his only cultural outing in the capital.
NSO has pegged economic growth at 5 per cent in 2019-20 in its second advance estimates.
'No one seems to have looked at the extent of money that is being borrowed by individuals, and the rising levels of household debt.' 'At their present rates of growth, personal loans in India could well become the largest category of bank credit in just two or three years,' cautions T N Ninan.
India must weave a quick-fix formula to ensure growth.
'Just see what kind of political, social and economic impact it will have when the number of unemployed goes up four times in one year suddenly.'
Tier-II cities are all set to witness good retail growth in near future.
Challenges posed by climate change hit centre stage in 2009 which saw the government doing a flip-flop ahead of the crucial Copenhagen summit even as the Opposition and experts alleged that India succumbed to pressure from rich nations on emission cuts.
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