YES Bank share price rose up to 5% in trade today ahead of the meeting of board of directors of the private lender on December 10 to finalise and approve the details of the preferential allotment

The poor performance is largely on the back of the steep decline in vehicle industry where production was down by over 13 per cent in the April-September period this financial year

The second and concluding part looks at how the quarterly GDP estimates use the organised sector indicators to measure the unorganised sector, which contributes nearly 50% to the GDP, thereby giving a misleading picture of the state of economic health

FPIs are global funds allocating money to India as part of their emerging market portfolio. They are mostly heavy stakeholders and about two-third of their investments are in largecap stocks

All the key economic indicators have been on a downward swing for quite some time. If this slide is not checked India may slip into recession sooner than later. In this first part of a two-part series, the article looks at what the major economic indicators are telling about the state of Indian economy

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Real wage in China is likely to grow at 2.9 per cent, down from 3.2 per cent last year and 4.2 per cent the year before. Meanwhile, Japan is expected to see a real-wage growth of 0.6 per cent

India's unemployment rate remains high for the month of November 2019 at 7.48% amid lowest labour participation rate of just 42.37%

Q2 GDP: Recession, simply put, is when an economy starts to decline in value. It means that the country is producing and earning less than what it did before

The just released GDP data for the second quarter (July-September) shows that the growth has gone down to 4.5 per cent (the lowest in six years) from 5 per cent in the first quarter (April-June)

Q2 GDP: Some of the key economies in the world are in the verge of recession raising fears about the global economic health

The biggest central government employer Indian Railways had 2,59,369 job vacancies, Defence had 1,87,054 vacancies and Home Affairs had 72,365 vacancies, according to the data

7th Pay Commission news: According to the official notification by the IIT Patna, there are total 24 job vacancies for 11 posts.

As the economy goes into a tailspin, jobs across industries are becoming a casualty

There's more pain in telecom, whose unfortunate decline has eerily coincided with the five-quarter downturn in the economy. Manu Kaushik lays bare the mess and what to expect next

To meet its fiscal targets, the government is in a rush to divest its stake in state-owned firms. The pressure to sell has been building over the years with rise in expenses

The fall in the unemployment rate, by weekly status methodology basis, came as employment among regular wage employees and a section of self-employed workers increased during the period

As macroeconomic indicators continue to disappoint, employees in India are facing the headwinds of corporate cost optimisation

The central bank has already chopped 135 basis points off its key lending rate, but this has failed to spur demand

The credibility of India's statistical system is at stake because of the commissions and omissions ever since the 2011-12 series was announced in January 2015 and continued through multiple revisions in GDP numbers until now that dent public confidence