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Can India defy US pressure and continue trade ties with Venezuela, Russia?

Finance Minister Sitharaman says India cannot sacrifice 'economic strength' and strategic interests to comply with US sanctions.

Oct 16, 2019

Even after growth rate cut to 6.1%, Indian economy remains 'very strong': IMF

India and China with their projected growth rate of 6.1 percent for the current year share the top rank among major economies.

Oct 16, 2019

Amid losses, Paytm in talks with T Rowe Price for $1 billion funding

Paytm has been scouting for investors and shore up funds since the beginning of the year amid increasing loss and competition in the digital payments segment posed by Google Pay and Walmart-owned PhonePe.

Oct 15, 2019

'Indian economy doing very badly': Nobel awardee Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee, who shared the Nobel prize for economics, said that the Indian economy is "doing very badly" even as the government is increasingly recognising that there is a problem.

Oct 15, 2019

Trump or Xi? Who has won the first round of US-China trade wars?

President Trump hails 'the greatest and biggest deal ever made for our Great Patriot Farmers'; US agrees to suspend next round of tariff hike on Chinese imports while Beijing will import $40-50 billion US farm products.

Oct 14, 2019

When will economic slowdown end? World Bank predicts 2nd year of fall in growth

World Bank cut India's GDP growth estimate to 6% for the 2019-20 financial year against 6.9% it achieved in FY19 amid broad-based deceleration of different sectors in the earlier quarters of the year.

Oct 13, 2019

Raghuram Rajan's take on how worrying the economic situation is as growth slows

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says that uncertainty over economic vision is causing deep distress in the economy whose growth forecast has been slashed multiple times this fisc.

Oct 12, 2019

Chennai connect to see new era in Sino-India relations, says PM Modi

After one-on-one talks with the Chinese President Xi Jinping in multiple sessions spread over two days, PM Modi said a new era of cooperation will begin on Saturday in Sino-India ties through the "Chennai connect".

Oct 12, 2019

Asia-Pacific 2019 growth to slow to 5.8% on trade tensions: World Bank

Economic growth in the region is forecast to slip to 5.8% in 2019 from 6.3% in 2018.

Oct 10, 2019

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Railways made Rs 35,073 crore in 10 years by just selling scrap

The Indian Railways said it earned a maximum profit of Rs 4,409 crore by selling scrap in 2011-12. The lowest income of Rs 2,718 crore was in 2016-17.

Oct 10, 2019

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Will there be any taker for Air India as 100% stake sale proposal sweetens deal?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hopes to raise Rs 1.05 lakh crore from once-shelved Air India stake sale while struggling to make up the Rs 1.45-lakh-crore largesse lost to a corporate tax cut amid worsening revenue account deficit.

Oct 9, 2019

Major corporate lay-off: After Cognizant, HP India to fire 500 people in India

HP will fire 7,000-9,000 employees globally by 2022 as part of a restructuring of operations intended to cut costs

Oct 7, 2019

Sensex sheds 434 points after RBI policy meeting; rate-sensitive stocks tank

The RBI cut the repo rate by 25 basis points (one basis point is one-hundredth of a per cent) to 5.15% from 5.40% but Sensex and Nifty declined over 1% as growth worries took the centre stage.

Oct 4, 2019

RBI cuts repo rate by 25 bps to 5.15%; GDP growth for FY20 adjusted to 6.1%

The lending rates were reduced in a bid to reverse the consumption slowdown and shore-up growth.