This is the second consecutive year that India has been recognised as a top improver. India is the only South Asian country to achieve this distinction two years in a row, and only nine other countries have accomplished this since 2011.

The Trump administration believes that there are a lot of US food and agricultural exports that are facing unfair trade barriers. It wants the Indian market to be reopened to US poultry and be opened for pork.

Ira Kalish, Chief Global Economist, Deloitte, Touche Tohmatsu, talks to Prosenjit Datta, Rajeev Dubey and Joe C. Mathew on how India can do well in spite of trade wars, oil, the state of the global economy and the future of global trade.

Only 40 per cent of India's 390 million internet users transact online. The remaining 60 per cent do their research online but complete the transaction offline.

Minister of State for Statistics Vijay Goel revealed in a written reply to Lok Sabha.

Green shoots emerge for residential real estate, but it isn't out of the woods.

In 1947, when we had a population of 353 million, 272 children of every 1000 live births would die before their fifth birthday - this accounted to 4.11 million children deaths. Compare this to 2015: while our population almost quadrupled to 1.3 billion, the number of child deaths reduced to a quarter at 1.2 million at a rate of 45.2 per 1000 live births.

Scooters account for a third of all two-wheelers sold in India today. But how long will the resurgence last?

The HDI is a composite index which assess the social and economic development levels of a country. This ranks the country in four principal areas: mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling, life expectancy and per capita income. The latest HDI report placed India at 131st position among the 188 countries.

Activa, which has been the largest selling scooter in India for over a decade now, had ended Splendor's long stay at the top in 2016/17 and has extended its lead in fiscal 2018.

Only sustained productivity growth can raise living standards

A WTO member country gets 60 days to respond. The US on Wednesday filed a complaint at the WTO against India's export subsidy programmes, claiming these initiatives harm US companies by creating an uneven playing field.

Stating that it expects GDP growth to pick up in the next two years, Fitch said gradual implementation of the structural reform agenda is expected to contribute to higher growth, as will higher real disposable income.

\"We will be updating the forecast for India, including the growth rate, and that will be coming January with the update of our World Economic Outlook,\" IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters at a news conference held at its headquarters.

While the core of its product offering continues to be peer viewed medical research articles, British Medical Journal has diversified into an entity that offers learning modules for continuing medical education (CME) for doctors, best practice guidelines for practicing physicians and bestows clinical excellence awards.

Though both the credit rating agencies appreciated India's strong GDP, S&P raised concern over increasing fiscal deficit and debt burden, saying the country's fiscal challenges coupled with low per capita income and high debt also reflect the country's underperformance.

While reaffirming a stable outlook for India, S&P appreciated Modi government's reforms. Stable outlook reflects growth will remain strong over the next two years, the rating agency said.

India has risen one rung to the 126th spot in the International Monetary Fund's ranking of countries based on their GDP per capita but remains at the bottom amongst the BRICS group.

The Indian government's Aadhaar card scheme, which has enrolled more than 1 billion people, has helped the exchequer save about $9 billion by eliminating fraud in beneficiary lists, its architect Nandan Nilekani has said here.

Questions over phasing out of export subsidies at the WTO may force India to shift to a new trade policy.