A pick-up in luxury real estate has been the silver lining from the pandemic crisis, and with almost everyone banking on a sharp V-shaped recovery with the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccination, 2021 is poised to be a strong one, for high-value home transactions

The growth, however, was mainly driven by India, which accounted for 77 per cent of the total inflows to the subregion and received $51 billion in 2019, up 20 per cent from the previous year

India and Australia can combine complementary skills and expertise to develop new innovations by leveraging Australian expertise with Indian expertise including in data analytics, biotech, and mobile applications

Several studies throw up structural, logistical and financial challenges to the growth of crop insurance in India, jeopardised by apparent profiteering by insurance companies

According to the report published by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday, India's gross national income per capita fell to $6,681 in 2019 from $6,829 in 2018 on purchasing power parity (PPP) basis

RBI panel's proposal to allow big corporates/industrial houses to own and run banks and NBFCs is contrary to RBI's own earlier stand, economic logic and historical evidence of multiple economic crises caused by reckless private financial sector players

Multiple estimates by multilateral institutions show the COVID-19 pandemic will hit India the hardest by sending 40 million people into \"extreme poverty\", worsen hunger and income inequality, and yet the government seems oblivious with no data, no estimation or policy response

India followed by China, Mexico, the Philippines, and Egypt continue to be the top five countries in 2020 to receive foreign remittances

Flipkart's Big Billion Days sees 55% rise in digital payments, over 150% increase in EMI optionsThe annual festive season sale by Flipkart, The Big Billion Days (TBBD), which concluded on October 21 saw 1.5 times growth in the number of transacting sellers, amongst whom more than 35 per cent saw over thrice the sales compared to last year, said the company in a statement. Even as it added nearly 35 per cent new sellers on its platform, nearly 60 per cent of them were from Tier II and Tier II...

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R Rajhans' son, Siddharth, moved by what the Apple Watch did for his father, wrote to Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President of software engineering at Apple, and thanked him

As per the UNCTAD report, the volume of corporate debt and its quality is a cause for concern as it has deteriorated significantly since the global financial crisis in 2007-08

UNCTAD expects India's GDP to contract 5.9 per cent in 2020 and recover to 3.9 per cent next year

The UNCTAD report also said that it expects South Asia to contract 4.8 per cent and South-East Asia to dip 2.2 per cent. South Asia is expected to recover 3.9 per cent in 2021, while South-East Asia is expected to pull up 4.3 per cent

The GHI severity scale determines hunger severity on a 100-point scale where zero is considered to be the best possible scale, i.e., no hunger and 100 is considered to be the worst

\"Following the mantra of 'Reform-Perform-Transform', India has made great efforts to bring about transformation in the lives of millions of its citizens,\" says PM Modi

PM Modi questioned for how long India will be kept out of the decision-making structures of UN, asserting that reform in the responses, processes and the character of the global body is the \"need of the hour\"

The Trade and Development Report 2020 by UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Tuesday that the world economy is experiencing a deep recession amid a still-unchecked pandemic

This is Part I of two-part article revisiting critical economic decisions that eventually led to minus 23.9% growth in Q1 of FY21. Blaming exogenous factors (pandemic) or intense lockdown is merely an excuse to divert attention from government's ineptitude and thwart meaningful debate

No wonder the quality of education in Indian schools is very poor. The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) says just 16.2% students in Class I and 50.8% in Class III could read Class I text and 41.1% students in Class I and 72.2% in Class III could recognise 2-digit numbers in rural India