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Markets

21 May, 2019

Sensex closes nearly 1% lower after retreating from record highs

Indian shares pulled back from record highs to close 1% lower on Tuesday, as investors booked profits following a three-session ......

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Finance

24 April, 2019

Policy Tracker: Did PM Modi's FDI reforms manage to lure foreign investors?

Just a few months after taking charge as the head of the first majority government in nearly three decades, Prime ......

General

02 April, 2019

What is India's key opposition party Congress promising to do if it wins in elections?

India’s principal opposition Congress party has promised a minimum income guarantee scheme and a separate farmers’ budget among a slew ......

Economy

15 March, 2019

Over 100 economists, academics accuse Modi govt of interfering with data agencies

More than 100 economists and social scientists have alleged that the Indian government is interfering with the country’s statistics-gathering agencies, ......

Economy

05 February, 2019

RBI may soften policy stance, inch towards rate cut

The Reserve Bank of India is likely to change its monetary policy stance to “neutral” from “calibrated tightening” on Thursday ......

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Economy

31 January, 2019

Could doubts over India's economic and jobs data erode investor confidence?

Earlier this week, two of the country’s top statisticians--PC Mohanan, the chief of the National Statistical Commission and his colleague ......

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Finance

18 January, 2019

How bonus shares, buybacks and dividends by PSUs are propping up govt's coffers

From 2009-10 to 2013-14, when the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in the saddle, only one state-run company ......

General

01 June, 2018

India unwrapped: Fuel prices, bypoll losses add to BJP's woes; biz czars in a fix

If the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was hoping for a reprieve after the humiliation of bowing out in Karnataka ......

General

13 April, 2018

India unwrapped: PM Modi's silence on rape cases speaks loudest as protests mount

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came under intense attack this week over their deafening ......

Finance

11 December, 2017

Sensex rises for third day in a row as IT, bank shares gain

Indian shares closed higher for the third successive session on Monday, boosted by gains in IT and public sector bank ......