The notes in circulation had grown at an average growth rate of 14.51 per cent year on year wise since October 2014 till October 2016

In July this year, PhonePe had received a fund infusion of about Rs 698 crore from its parent firm

In the preceding fiscal 2017-18, the notes in circulation were Rs 18,03,700 crore; while it stood at Rs 13,10,200 crore at the end of 2016-17

The current slowdown is the third slowdown since 1996 and will be the longest in the past 23 years if the next quarter's GDP is worse than 4.5%

Rajan pointed out that extreme centralisation, coupled with lack of empowered ministers and a coherent guiding vision meant reforms picked up steam only when PMO focused on them and lost pace when its attention switched to other pressing issues

The slowdown in manufacturing activity was reflected in the decline in capacity utilisation to 68.9 per cent in Q2FY20 from 73.6 per cent in Q1, says RBI in its fifth bi-monthly monetary policy statement

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The second and concluding part looks at how the quarterly GDP estimates use the organised sector indicators to measure the unorganised sector, which contributes nearly 50% to the GDP, thereby giving a misleading picture of the state of economic health

P Chidambaram said that all the people who had knowledge about the economy and its issues were banished by the BJP government

The government is clueless on the economy, it is stubborn and mulish in defending catastrophic mistakes like demonetisation, flawed GST, tax terrorism, says the former Union minister

National Statistical Commission has directed the statistics ministry to look at additional sources of data to cross-verify the apparent 'inconsistencies'in consumer spending patterns

Digitisation in buying insurance and claims settlement has contributed to the shift in buying trends. Millennials are more inclined to buy a product where buying and claims settlement processes are simple and convenient

Senior Bajaj at an award function on Saturday in Mumbai had said there was an \"atmosphere of fear\" and people were afraid to criticise the Modi government

As per the United Nations System of National Accounts (UN SNA)-2008, the member countries are required to revise the base year of their macro-economic indicators

As the economy goes into a tailspin, jobs across industries are becoming a casualty

Are survey results being withheld or discredited because they don't match the government line or is there an inherent problem in the way India conducts its statistics?

Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala cited a media report which claimed that the BJP took a large donation from a firm being probed by the Enforcement Directorate

The company, which had seen a revenue jump of over Rs 10,000 crore between 2011 and 2017 on the back of array of products such as toothpaste, soaps, atta, honey and ghee, suddenly seems to have much less visibility

The government emphasised at the Rajya Sabha that a declining trend was visible in the hoarding of Rs 2,000 notes

The lure for people to use Jan Dhan Yojana accounts is the attached benefits, which includes no requirement to maintain any minimum balance, a RuPay debit card with overdraft of Rs 10,000 and accident insurance