While intraregional trade accounts for 50 per cent of total trade in East Asia and the Pacific and 22 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa, it forms only 5 per cent of South Asia's total trade.

The GDP back series data 'accidently' became public thanks to a report on real sector statistics prepared by a committee constituted by the National Statistical Commission. In the din that ensued, some of the more serious concerns that the committee raised regarding quality of the data got lost. Business Today's Prosenjit Datta and Dipak Mondal caught up with Sudipto Mundle, chairman of the Committee on Real Sector Statistics, which prepared the new series, to dig deeper into the observations made in the report. Edited excerpts:

In December this year, drones will begin flying across Indian skies for surveys, photography, and mapping.

Digitisation has reached a level where you can manage your entire financial world with clicks and taps. Here is what all you can do and how you can manage personal finance digitally.

The store, set up with an investment of Rs 1,000 crore, employs 950 people (called co-workers) directly and 1500 indirectly in services.

The consumer confidence survey was for the June round, and conducted in six metros - Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi and had 5268 responses.

Beverly Hills Polo Club said that once they sent legal notices to Amazon, the latter took down some URLs.

ASK Wealth Advisors tries to estimate jobs using a completely new methodology -- the Sit-Stand-Go model, which relies on proxies (and some surveys) to come up with the number of about 5 million non-farm jobs being created annually in India.

Before he became Prime Minister, Narendra Modi vowed to bring all illicit money stashed away in foreign countries, and promised that poor people in the country would get Rs 15 lakh each.

Dr Brad Shuck, Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership & Learning at University of Louisville, Kentucky speaks to Business Today on the importance of treating employees with dignity and giving them recognition that is personal and in real time.

India has a huge official data and statistics problem and the problem is only growing bigger by the day.

Nurses in rural health facilities are the unsung heroes of Indian healthcare; they deserve empathy, respect, training and supportive supervision.

The biannual Employment Outlook Report by TeamLease Services forecasts an increase of 4 per cent in the net employment outlook to 95% for the April-September 2018 period versus 91% in October-March 2017-18.

The construction of all the four lines is expected to cost more than Rs 2-lakh crore. The final location survey (FLS) is in progress and the Indian Railways is expected to submit the report to the defence ministry by 2020.

The reserve reduction, the third by the central bank this year, had been widely anticipated by investors amid concerns over market liquidity and a potential economic drag from a trade dispute with the United States.

As Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian announced his intention to relinquish his post and return to the United States, BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey sheds light on the contributions made by the economist during his tenure. Subramanian took on the job on October 16, 2014, after the post had been lying vacant for over a year. Though his three-year term ended last October, the government had extended his appointment by one year.

In the course of investigation, Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, the epicentre of the 2016 Panama Papers confirmed the existence of several customers who had denied any links as well as unmasked new clients in a bargain.

Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian has announced his intention to relinquish his post and return to the United States.

The survey says the current expense does not include expenditure incurred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's poll campaigning. The survey, however, concludes that the Assembly election in Karnataka has proved to be more expensive than the state elections in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

A detailed account of India's struggle with its colossal waste problem.