'India can never be Congress-mukt'

'...because the party is based on the Constitution.' Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Kapil Sibal questions the government's gross domestic product data of 7.1 per cent. He tells......

GDP is a measure of income, not of output: Pronab Sen

The wide differential in the base years of the national accounts and index of industrial production and the wholesale price index could explain the inconsistency we see between the gross domestic......

Why advance GDP estimates won't fully capture note ban effect

Much of the Q3 data will simply not be available for the CSO to factor in its calculation. The advance estimates of GDP for 2016-17, to be released later this week, might not fully capture the......

Jaitley defends UPA era's revised GDP numbers

The new numbers show India's economic growth rate averaged 6.7 per cent during the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance regime as compared to 7.3 per cent under the present government. Previous......

The curious case of GDP discrepancies

This time there has been a rather peculiar criticism of the latest GDP numbers. Gross domestic product (GDP) data released on Tuesday by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) showed India's economy......