What do the fluctuating gold-silver price ratio portend?
The world seems to have caught severe pneumonia, or worse, as China had flu.
This is a terrible situation for a growing economy to be in, and the central bank would be expected to act to correct the situation.
Pakistan's deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, who is in China on a four-day visit, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-chaired the fifth round of the foreign minister-level China-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue.
Gandhi said Modi's top priority now is to get his Speaker in Parliament and is not bothered about NEET .
Pakistan's newly-elected President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday announced that he would not draw any salary during his tenure as part of his bid to help the cash-strapped country face the challenging economic hardship.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said it was necessary to acknowledge that China will influence India's neighbouring countries, and India must not be scared of such "competitive politics".
'...without looking into yourself.' 'What matters most is human relationships and the human mind.'
Barack Obama, who took charge as the 44th President of the United States on January 20 amid sky high approval ratings, is already facing a decline in his tremendous popularity.A recently conducted poll shows that Obama's job approval ratings have dipped due to the relentless financial crisis and the government's stumbling stimulus packages to revive the American economy.
India Inc produces worst results in five quarters.
India's manufacturing sector activity remained broadly flat in June as new orders declined for the first time in over four years and power cuts and fragile economic conditions weighed on the sector's performance, an HSBC survey said.
'You must have heard that Pakistan is going bankrupt or that a default or meltdown is taking place. It (default) has already taken place. We are living in a bankrupt country,' Defence minister Khawaja Asif said.
Economists have long argued that they shouldn't be expected to predict crises, such as the one that almost sank the global economy five years ago.
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The Economic Survey, to be tabled in Parliament on Thursday, is likely to provide an assessment of the impact of the global financial meltdown on the Indian economy and outline the strategy to spur growth and contain the mounting fiscal deficit.
The response by the finance ministry and the RBI to the churning in financial markets is mature.
India is emerging Asia's canary in the 'hot money' mine.
In any downturn, the turnaround comes only when investors feel asset prices have bottomed out; when consumer demand has fallen so much that it has nowhere to go but up; and when bankers feel that businesses (or those that remain) are on even keel.
The recent financial crisis and prospects of a prolonged downturn in global economic activity have once again invigorated the critiques of global financial integration and free trade.
We forget that, three months ago, the over-riding economic problem in India was inflation. So the good news is that the tide has turned.
The government thinks that it can buy peace with its own people, not by providing an environment for growth, but by bribing them into silence, writes M R Venkatesh.
India and the Maldives on Friday agreed to set up a core group to further deepen their partnership as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a 'productive' meeting with newly-elected Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu and discussed ways to enhance the bilateral friendship across diverse sectors.
Sri Lanka's ministry of defence on Tuesday ordered the army, air force and navy personnel to open fire on anyone looting public property or causing harm to others amidst violent protests in the island nation over the unprecedented economic crisis.
India and China will escape the downturn that other countries in the world are expected to face.
Sri Lanka's embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would resign on Wednesday, Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced late on Saturday night, hours after thousands of protesters stormed the former's official residence, blaming his government for an unprecedented economic crisis that has brought the country to its knees.
India and China, besides some developed countries, may face economic downturn in the coming months, according to an analysis by OECD -- a grouping of mostly advanced nations.
Shehbaz Sharif, the younger brother of former premier Nawaz Sharif, is expected to become Pakistan's new prime minister as the coalition of leading political parties led by them is set to comfortably cross the simple majority mark to form the next government after elections produced a split mandate.
With its economy battered by the devastating floods, Pakistan must make peace with India and normalise its economic ties if it wants to overcome the crisis, a noted American scholar has said.
During a meeting of parties convened on Sunday ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, Tamil Nadu-based Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam demanded India intervene in the neighbouring country which is facing a debilitating economic crisis.
Due to India's limited dependence on external demand and strong fiscal and monetary stimulus measures, the global economic and financial crisis had a relatively muted effect on the country, the Obama Administration told the US Congress on Thursday.
There are a number of factors that helped India remain relatively unscathed. Some of them are to do with RBI and some of them are to do with the Indian economy.
This columnist cannot pretend to be an economic expert but can certainly point out that the statistics being reeled out on a daily basis now, have added to the economic burden of the people, says Seema Mustafa.
The conclusion is derived from a Business Standard poll of CEOs, bankers, market players & economists.
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Initiating a debate on the current economic situation in the country, Ravi Shankar Prasad of Bharatiya Janata Party slammed the government over rising prices, including that of onions, saying the common man is suffering and "crony capitalism has come to rule".
"President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa is still in the country, I made a mistake in the (BBC) interview," Speaker Abeywardena told ANI in a telephone call.
Europe may continue to reel from the shock of the global financial crisis, but even in these depressed circumstances Information Technology-related outsourcing remains surprisingly buoyant to the benefit of Indian firms like Tata Consultancy Services.
Opening the two-day 15th NAM Summit of the 118 developing nations at this Egyptian Red Sea resort city, Cuban President Raul Castro said the grouping believes that all countries in the world should search for effective and justified measures to tackle the current financial crisis.
Cyprus, once a high-income economy is today facing a severe economic crisis.
The economic situation has led to huge protests with demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Basil had negotiated the Indian economic relief package to help Sri Lanka tackle the current foreign exchange crisis.
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