'Dear prime minister: Harvard is not just Amartya Sen'

'Amartya Sen is a citizen of the country who has every right to criticise or give his opinion on a policy decision.''Get back at him! Why get back at Harvard?' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

Niti Aayog VC accepts Chidambaram's challenge on revised GDP data

Chidambaram had termed the revision of GDP data as a 'hatchet job' by Niti Aayog and said it was time to windup the 'utterly worthless body'. Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar on Thursday......

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......

Investment picks up to a seven-quarter high of 14.4% in Q4

Economists, however, caution against interpreting the data as a broad-based revival Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Investment growth leap-frogged to a seven-quarter high of 14.4 per cent in......

'All we can tell you is the GDP figures. After that you are free to speculate'

It is not a good idea to take the line that since demonetisation happened in the third quarter, everything that happened then was a consequence of that, says Chief Statistician TCA Anant. As......