The Fed is in the red

Research shows the US Fed doesn't get its predictions right as often as we would like to believe. With India and China in an upbeat mood, the dark days of last September are slowly fading in......

The dark side of the ID database

Mr Nilekani has taken on the responsibility over the most ambitious government programme of national identification in recent years. Having a single nationally accepted identification and identity......

Services may be included in WPI

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation is planning to include services in the wholesale price index to increase the scope and coverage of the index, said India's Chief Statistician......

Factory output grows after 2-month decline

Industrial output expanded 1.4 per cent in April after two months of decline, leading experts to predict that the economy had bottomed out. A return to 8-plus per cent industrial expansion was,......