Inflation declined marginally to 4.49 per cent for the week ended October 22 from 4.71 per cent in the previous week
Infrastructure growth plummeted to 0.5 per cent during July 2005 compared to 11.1 per cent in the same month last fiscal, owing to a sharp fall in production of coal, steel, power and crude oil.
Assembly elections coming up in November and December could offer a window of opportunity to the government to make GST attractive through rate cuts.
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JSPL and Balco had emerged as the highest bidders in the recently concluded auctions.
ICICI Bank was the top loser along with index heavyweights RIL, ITC and HDFC.
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Inflation stood unchanged for the second consecutive week at 4.4 per cent for the week ended April 17 despite vegetables and tea prices skyrocketing and a marginal hike in some of the manufactured products, including cement.
If the economy gains momentum, that is a big positive for markets, given the strong macro of low inflation, falling rates, and a stable rupee, says Akash Prakash.
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There is a significant amount of dispersion in the growth rates across different industries.
A total 95 deaths deaths were reported since Friday morning, of which 37 in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, nine in West Bengal, seven in Madhya Pradesh, four each from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, three from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and two from Delhi and one each from Punjab and Haryana.
Irrfan was hoping he would get a role as one of the kids in Salaam Bombay!, and when that didn't happen, heartbreak and tears followed.
India's six core infrastructure industries grew by 5.2 per cent in November 2003 following growth in petroleum refinery products, coal and electricity industries.
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Economists, however, caution against interpreting the data as a broad-based revival
Industrialists affirm their belief that the adverse effects of demonetisation and the goods and services tax are finally over.
Overall prospects for economic growth are constrained by lack of new investments despite major gains in industrial growth in the first half of the fiscal, according to National Council for Applied Economic Research.
Two projects in Iran, which India is to execute involving major financial commitments on its part, are of particular significance for Indian steel.
Mirroring the buoyancy in economy, India's key infrastructure sector grew 5.9 per cent in December 2003 as opposed to a growth of 4.4 per cent in the same month in 2002.
'One good thing that has come out of all this is that it shown people that online ordering is the way forward.'
'Unless we change and we see a change in the direction we are taking, times can only get worse.'
Engage, don't entice, advises advertising guru Sandeep Goyal.
In the fourth of a six-part series, Ajay Modi visits Moradabad, to see how the brass city is coping with the after-effects of demonetisation.
Villagers have been protesting against the Sterlite factory since February 12, with an effigy of Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal as the backdrop. More than 75 days hence, the dharna continues, the summer vacation seeing children joining the protest.
On the profitability front, Crisil foresees a 0.5 per cent basis points y-o-y jump in EBITDA (operating profit) margins in Q2 FY15.
In October, the general index had declined by 4.2 per cent, while its manufacturing component went down by an even more alarming 7.6 per cent.
A majority of the respondents said that demonetisation is a positive step towards curbing black money and corruption from the economy, the move did have an impact on their sales.
A strong investment recovery is essential for India to sustain high GDP growth rates in the medium term
Mining baron Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Group has bid for the most number of 14 coal mines out of 23 on offer in the first round of auction which also have aggressive bids by Aditya Birla Group, Adani and Naveen Jindal group, but was shunned by foreign players.
The processes that create a seven per cent-plus GDP growth rate without a similar growth in jobs are far from fully understood, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
During the UPA government's second term in office, rural India's consumption expenditure grew at a faster pace than urban India's - for the first time since 1991.
Loans, cash credits, and overdrafts at the end of December 22, 2017, stood at Rs 81,287.32 billion, against Rs 73,340 billion in the year-ago period.
n the broader market, both the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices, were up 1.2% and 0.7% each.
'The Mumbai-Pune Olympics will be help shift the country's gaze to a region that denotes a new formula for sports, enterprise, and nation building,' argues Shashank Mani Tripathi.
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FinMin does not expect tax or non-tax revenue to reach anywhere close to the targets set in the interim Budget. Sources say that the challenge before the new government will be either to accept the reduced projection and tailor the Budget accordingly or set a more ambitious target.
