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Government unveils Rs 1.7 lakh crore Covid lockdown package
The central government has come out with a Rs 1.7 lakh crore Covid response and lockdown package to insulate the economy and the people...
Pakistan surges as South Asia’s Italy on the Covid front
As the Covid threat getting the real pandemic nature in Europe, a new front is opening in South Asia in the form of Pakistan....
How Kerala becomes the knight in India’s Covid fight?
Kerala is a not a model boy for ultra-national sentiments. Often, there is strong divergence between what India thinks and what Kerala thinks on...
When economies are on shutdown.
There is no respite from the spread of the disastrous virus impact into the financial markets and to the economic sectors. Markets that opened...
RBI is in ‘never give up’ mode; brings LTRO to enhance...
There were a lot of talk about the falling abilities of central banks to arrest the current wave of slowdown. Extending from the US...
Budget 2020: the Class Act that we missed
Every economic situation warrants tailor made solutions - that is what macroeconomic management in the Trump era tells you. Nearly a dozen years back,...
Budget’s riskiest game- LIC disinvestment to bring Rs 90 k crore
If you can’t take eyes on one data in the budget 2020. That is about the disinvestment target set by the Finance Minister. The...
Budget surprisingly manages borrowing in the outskirts of the FRBM target
One interesting question about budget 2020 was what will be the budget size to manage the government’s response to the slowdown. Economists were convinced...
Budget brings complex tax structure to give relief to individuals
The Finance Minister has made interesting changes for individual income taxpayers by offering a different tax slab for those who forego all exemptions and...
Budget’s big step: Government disinvesting minority shares in LIC
In a remarkable budgetary step, the government will be disinvesting the mammoth public sector insurance entity – the Life Insurance Corporation. The disinvestment will...
Fiscal worries weaken government’s ability to boost the economy
When symptoms for a deep slowdown is increasingly evident, the economy badly need some intervention from the government. The usual fiscal stimulus in the...
Quarterly growth warns deep slowdown knocking on the door
India has registered the fifth successive quarterly GDP growth decline and the lowest growth rate in the past six and a half years.
The latest...
Government liberalises FDI norms to bring back growth momentum
The Union Cabinet ratified another economy booster to revive the growth momentum. This time, the FDI norms in sectors including the decisive contract manufacturing...
RBI Assets and Liabilities
RBI's Asset and Liabilities explained in brief. The various components of the RBI's assets including the capital reserve components and Liabilities including currency in...
RBI’s huge transfer – a real help for the government to...
Reserve Bank of India’s central board has decided to transfer a whopping Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the government including Rs 1.23 lakh crore...
Government brings boosters for the economy
In the context of the rising warning about the economic trends, the Finance Minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled a booster package to the economy....
How Trump attacks India’s Developing Country status?
The US President Donald Trump is continuously attacking India’s developing country status. In a latest development, he repeated that countries like China...
Trump’s war on India’s Developing Country status intensifies
Trump is in war with every country on the trade front. Friend or foe, anybody having a trade surplus is getting the...
Slowing economy- RBI goes for further rate cut
The Reserve Bank of India has reduced its policy rate by 35 basis point to 5.4% in its third bimonthly monetary policy...