According to economists at YES Bank, heath and R&D related spending is expected to see a boost to align India with its global peers and to adapt to ongoing changes in global health conditions

RBI paper says India must look for ways in which cash sitting idly in balance sheets of corporations and banks and reverse repo balances with the RBI finds its way into credit to productive sectors before it imposes a persistent deflationary weight on real activity

Centre had planned a disinvestment mop-up of Rs 2.1 lakh crore this fiscal, by selling stake in several public sector enterprises, but the plans have been stalled due to several factors

Misdirected stimulus that relies heavily on liquidity infusion when demand is depressed and incentivising loan defaults by routinely writing off NPAs threaten financial stability and economic recovery

Bajaj Finserv's total income rose to Rs 15,961 crore during the quarter under review from Rs 14,561 crore in the year-ago quarter

Sectorally, except FMCG, all the other indices closed in the green territory today, with almost 2.2% rise in auto and IT index and 2% gain in PSU Bank, followed by 1% rise in media index

The government recently announced a WTO compliant Remission on Duties and Taxes on Export Products (RoDTEP) scheme that replaced the earlier Merchandise Export Incentive Scheme. Effective since the beginning of the year, the government is yet to notify the rates of the new scheme

The Union Budget 2021 should reflect concrete and enthused government efforts to boost both consumption and demand for an overall push to the economy

The country has the lowest manufacturing costs among peers, even though China retains significant ecosystem advantages and despite that India and Vietnam appear most likely to benefit from a shift out of China

DK Joshi, Chief Economist, CRISIL, Nilesh Shah, Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company, Mukesh Butani, Managing Partner, BMR Legal Advocates,  Prof. Gourav Vallabh, Spokesperson, Indian National Congress,  Gopal Krishna Agarwal, National Spokesperson, BJP on Economic Affairs, spoke about how the government should aim to spur growth. Watch them in conversation with Rajeev Dubey, Editor, Business Today.Also Read: Jobs have moved from high productivity to low productivity sectors: CMIE

All states asked for the Centre's interposition in clearing outstanding dues arising out of lower devolution of the states and GST in FY 2020-21

Rating agency Icra on Monday said most of the indicators have displayed a year-on-year (y-o-y) expansion in December 2020, which signals a tentative return to pre-COVID normalcy

All eyes are on the budget as the government walks a tightrope of balancing growth and fiscal concerns. Effective implementation of the proposed budget will be key

Extending fall for the second straight session, Sensex ended 470 points lower at 48,564 and Nifty fell by 152 points to 14,281. In the last two sessions, Sensex has lost 1,019 points and Nifty is down  313 points

First advance estimates of national income highlight three key imperatives to revive growth: generate demand and investment cycles by directly spending more and reverse import substitution

Growth in the three months ending in December rose to 6.5% over a year earlier, up from the previous quarter's 4.9%, according to official data released Monday

The gross domestic product (GDP) growth was faster than the 6.1% forecast by economists in a Reuters poll, and followed 4.9% growth in the third quarter

On the positive side, BofA Securities said credit demand is bottoming out and the real lending rates adjusted for wholesale price inflation are falling

There is a need to re-accelerate the economic growth... Indian economy is likely to contract to 7.5 per cent in 2020-21. But it will grow in double-digit in the next fiscal year, he said

The S&P BSE Sensex index first hit 25,000 in 2014 after the BJP-led NDA government came to power with a record majority