De-growth is expected to come down to low single digits in Q4FY20, and Q2 FY21 is when we start seeing growth, said Mahindra and Mahindra Managing Director Pawan Goenka

In August last year, Reliance Industries head Mukesh Ambani had announced initial agreements to sell a 20 per cent stake in the oil-to-chemical business to the Saudi national oil company

UKIBC Chief Executive Officer Richard Heald said that the e-commerce sector has a tremendous potential, especially for the smaller businesses, who get a platform to sell their wares

Budget 2020: Expectations were that Sitharaman, who had in September last year cut corporate tax rates to their lowest to boost economic growth, would announce similar sops for individual taxpayers

India Brazil bilateral ties: After wide ranging talks between PM Modi and President Bolsonaro, India and Brazil are reported to have a bilateral trade of $15 billion by 2022

Part II of this two-part series looks at another area of off-budget financing that has escaped CAG's attention - 'strategic disinvestment' in CPSEs the tabs for which are picked by other CPSEs. This is worrisome as it threatens to jeopardise financial health of many CPSEs, including the 'navaratnas' for short-term fiscal gains

True extent of central government's off-budget financing is not known. CAG picked some cases for scrutiny in the recent past and found an alarming rise in the magnitude of such financing, which is not only distorting the budget numbers but also poses a serious challenge to fiscal responsibilityPart I of this two-part series looks at the trends and why it should concern all

Deepak Bagla, MD and CEO of Invest India, in an exclusive interview with Rahul Kanwal, News Director, India Today & Aajtak, speaks about the presence of India at Davos and how foreign investors have reacted to the India story. He said investors were happy that India could take some major decisions which made good economics as the centre of good politics.According to him, this is bound to be a record FDI year for India. Watch the video for more.

A majority of respondents to a survey conducted by India Today and Karvy Insights feel that soaring prices of onion and other food items are indicators of the poor state of the Indian economy. The poll called the Mood of the Nation (MOTN) surveyed 12,141 people across India. The majority believe that it is either growing slowly or not growing at all. The survey responses are in line with recent estimates. According to the national income released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), India's GDP growth may fall to an 11-year low of 5 per cent in the current fiscal. Watch as India Today's Rahul Kanwal discusses the current state of Indian economy, the results of the survey and the chances of revival with experts at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos.

Off-budget borrowings are a means by which the government keeps its fiscal deficit in check by making quasi-government entities borrow on its behalf, to partly fund its expenditure plan for the year

Mood of the Nation survey: According to the latest data by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), the Indian economy is expected to grow at 5% in FY20 as against 6.8% GDP growth clocked in FY19

A majority - 58 per cent - are either not hopeful or are doubtful of the target. Out of the 58 per cent, around 34 per cent believe that India won't reach the $5 trillion target by 2025, while 24 per cent have no opinion on this

Buyout activity in Indian PE/VC industry has grown from strength-to-strength as India moves towards global norms where buyouts are usually the largest deal type of PE/VC investment

Union Budget 2020: The need of the hour is long-range agricultural policy and programmes which could remove the bottlenecks for agri-warehousing and facilitate easy credit for farmers

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Nirmala Sitharaman, in her maiden budget, broke the long-standing tradition of carrying a budget briefcase, used by all the finance ministers before her. She was seen carrying a red cloth bag instead. Here is why she broke the tradition. Watch the video to know more.Also read: India Ratings projects country's FY21 GDP growth at 5.5%Also watch: Davos 2020: Khan seeks help from Trump over Kashmir issue  

GDP growth 2019: The government has announced a slew of measures recently to prop-up the economy, but Ind-Ra believes they will come to aid only in the medium term

The selected agencies will be responsible for assisting the regulator 'in valuation of attached assets and sale thereof to prospective buyers on behalf of Sebi'

Putting forward a cautious figure, India Ratings and Research has pegged the Indian economy to grow at a 5.5% rate in FY21 (2020-21), which is marginally higher than the 5% GDP growth rate estimate for FY20 (2019-20)

Tech Mahindra's CEO CP Gurnani said that it was very unusual that a growth rate which was running at 8-10 per cent was now at 4-5 per cent, impacting the global growth rate