The Indian packaged food market is expected to be worth $270 billion by 2027, driven by often contradictory trends in different parts of the country.

The analysis report showed individuals from vulnerable groups, namely women, uneducated, wage labourers, agricultural labourers and small traders, being the worst hit by job losses in 2018.

Indian startups raised $38.3 billion in funding in 2018Indian startups are estimated to have raised $38.3 billion in funding in 2018, behind only the US and China, a report by Yostartups said Thursday. Flipkart's $16 billion deal with American retailer Walmart accounted for the biggest piece of the pie, followed by Swiggy raising about $1.3 billion over three deals, and OYO picking up $1 billion in 2018, the report said. Other big funding deals included those by Paytm Mall ($895 million), ReN...

Indian companies announced projects worth Rs 1 lakh crore, which is 53 per cent lower than what was seen in the September quarter this fiscal and 55 per cent lower than the levels in December quarter last fiscal.

The pace of implementation of projects under the Smart City Mission has picked up significantly during the last one year.

GDP growth has slid, public finances are messy and there is a jobs crunch. What the government needs to do to boost the economy.

If anything, this data revision by the government, which shows that the growth during the UPA years is even lower than the growth in the past four years, is hard to reconcile for one reason -- the first UPA government witnessed tremendous economic tailwinds.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Niti-Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar both said that the CSO has used the same methodology for preparing the back-series estimates for the years 2004-05 to 2010-11 that it has been following since it shifted to the new base (2011-12) three years ago.

Odisha has done well on GSDP growth. It is now looking to attract value-added players in the metals space and rev up its MSME sector.

Survey after survey shows that consumers are feeling gloomy about their prospects. that is something the government should worry about.

PM Modi got lucky in the early part of his tenure when crude prices fell sharply. But in the run up to the elections, his luck on the economic front seems to have run out.

The report finds that while wages in most sectors have grown steadily, caste and gender disparity remain high.

The GDP back series data 'accidently' became public thanks to a report on real sector statistics prepared by a committee constituted by the National Statistical Commission. In the din that ensued, some of the more serious concerns that the committee raised regarding quality of the data got lost. Business Today's Prosenjit Datta and Dipak Mondal caught up with Sudipto Mundle, chairman of the Committee on Real Sector Statistics, which prepared the new series, to dig deeper into the observations made in the report. Edited excerpts:

ASK Wealth Advisors tries to estimate jobs using a completely new methodology -- the Sit-Stand-Go model, which relies on proxies (and some surveys) to come up with the number of about 5 million non-farm jobs being created annually in India.