The lockdown-like curbs cast a dark shadow over India's ongoing economic revival. In fact, after the pent-up demand of July-Dec period subsided, the economy had started already losing momentum beginning January 2021, well before the second Covid wave intensified

While the reading will be heavily skewed by the plunge in activity a year earlier, the expected jump would be the strongest since at least 1992, when official quarterly records started, according to the median forecasts of 47 economists polled by Reuters

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Biden added that while his administration is on schedule to meet his new goal of distributing 200 million doses of the vaccine during his first 100 days, it will still take time for enough Americans to get vaccinated to slow the spread of the virus

Many monetary policy experts, including former RBI governors Raghuram Rajan and D Subbarao, had advised the government against tinkering with the inflation target

The Washington-based global lender, in its latest South Asia Economic Focus report released ahead of the annual Spring meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that the economy was already slowing when the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded

A follow up after five months of those recovered and discharged from hospitals revealed 90 per cent felt at least one symptom that they had not experienced before Covid-19

The ratings agency, in its latest Global Economic Outlook (GEO), anticipates the level of the country's GDP to remain well below its pre-pandemic forecast trajectory

Amid the ongoing correction, Sensex has lost 2,063 points  and Nifty has tumbled 617 points. The five-session loss in benchmark indices comes amid US 10-year bond yields rising to a high of 1.74% today against 1.54% on March 10

While India does not do well in labour-intensive aspects, the country is successful in the services sector and high skill manufacturing, said Paul Krugman

Rajan, also a noted economist, opined that the government's ambitious target to make India a USD 5-trillion economy by 2024-25 was \"more aspirational, rather than a carefully computed one even before the pandemic\"

The measure provides $400 billion for $1,400 direct payments to most Americans, $350 billion in aid to state and local governments, an expansion of the child tax credit and increased funding for vaccine distribution

The NSE's India VIX, a gauge of the market's expectation of volatility over the near term, fell 8.9% to 25.62

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Accepting that the government has missed its disinvestment target over the last few years, Sitharaman said pandemic affected its plans in FY20, while a slowing economy and lack of appetite hit in FY19.

Fuel prices have touched new highs over the last week. In Delhi, petrol has inched closer to Rs 90, whereas, in several cities of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, it is almost on the verge of crossing Rs 100 per litre

The world's third-largest economy grew an annualised 12.7% in October-December, government data showed on Monday, exceeding a median market forecast for a 9.5% gain

Bank credit growth shows signs of uptick, backed by retail and agri loans, but is expected to remain muted in FY21 due to asset quality pressures

While Indian IT services companies have made a strong comeback in Q3, Cognizant's full year  revenues for the first time has slipped into the negative territory, with guidance for 2021 also in low single digit range

The study published in 'PrePrints with the The Lancet' reveals that administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has 'substantially reduced' transmission of the virus