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Finance

29 May, 2020

How coronavirus threatens to derail years of effort to control India govt debt

When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the annual budget in February, a little factoid went largely unnoticed and mostly under-reported. For ......

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Economy

23 December, 2019

Flashback 2019: The year when the economy took a hard right turn towards turmoil

Soon after winning a second term in May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a target to boost the Indian economy’s ......

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Finance

26 June, 2019

Budget 2019: Why India needs a more meaningful disinvestment strategy

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office for a second five-year term, the government’s policy think-tank Niti Aayog said ......

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Finance

04 June, 2019

What India Inc, taxpayers can expect from Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden budget

Last week, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as India’s new finance minister, a deluge of bad ......

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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 ......

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Finance

13 February, 2018

Will macro headwinds knock India of​f​ its growth path?

Calendar 2017 was a year of contradictions for the Indian economy. Even as economic growth slipped in the aftermath of ......