What are India’s GDP Numbers Telling us About its Growth?
Reports from the ground suggest that slackening demand drives the slowdown. In picture, a worker checking the joints used for cement filtration at a manufacturing facility in Kolkata, in 2012. | Photo Credit: RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS While the robustness of the official estimates of the GDP and its growth in
Hindenburg Research Shut Down: Inside Story of the Short-Seller that Exposed Adani Group
Why did the US short-seller Hindenburg Research shut shop? Was it on account of real or perceived pressures and apprehensions of doom and despair? Or was it simply because the firm’s founder Nathan (Nate) Anderson and his 11 colleagues just wanted to move on, having achieved what they wanted less
Stringent Economic Policies and Growing Militancy have Left People in J&K Feeling Frustrated with the Centre
In September 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Jammu city, five years after the party he leads at the centre hacked away Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status and ended its statehood. “The Jammu region in particular faced decades of injustice at the hands of the
Manmohan Singh Combined Market Liberalism and Nehruvian Welfarism to Craft Modern India’s Economic Vision
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he received a special memento from K. Venugopal, Founder Editor of Businessline, in New Delhi on March 15, 2019. | Photo Credit: Kamal Narang In the tributes paid to Manmohan Singh, he has been described as the architect of economic liberalisation since he was
SUM AND SUBSTANCE | India’s Middle Class is the Biggest Loser of 2024
In a year of “yes, no, maybe” both the Reserve Bank and the Finance Ministry now agree that the country has a growth problem. If they had been listening to what consumer goods companies have been saying for a while, they may have reached that conclusion sooner. India’s festive season
Explained: The Fall of the Rupee, the RBI’s Response, and Current State of India’s Economy
Things have taken a rocky turn for the Indian rupee this year and the Central Bank is worried about how the domestic currency is unspooling. Representational image. | Photo Credit: REUTERS In what feels like chucking pails of water at a forest fire, the RBI has been selling dollars in
Frontline Wrapped: Top Ten Defining Economics Narratives of 2024
As the year comes to a close, Frontline has curated a list of our ten best economics stories of the year. | Photo Credit: By Special Arrangement India saw a flurry of economic activity in 2024, with major events unfolding throughout the year. From the Election Commission of India’s publication
France in Turmoil: Prime Minister Michel Barnier Ousted in No-Confidence Motion Amidst Economic Crisis
When Prime Minister Michel Barnier unveiled his deficit-reduction plan in October, promising to bring down the public deficit from around 6 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 3 per cent in 2029, it was seen as an attempt to steer the French economy into calmer waters. But on
Azure Power Accused of Land Grab for Solar Power Project in Assam | EXPLAINED
In 2019, the descendants of an erstwhile zamindar family entered into an “agreement of sale” for 91 acres of land to Azure Power Forty Pvt Ltd in Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Assam’s Nagaon district to build a solar power plant. The land deal directly affected the livelihoods of at
Azure Power Accused of Land Grab for Solar Power Project in Assam | EXPLAINED
In 2019, the descendants of an erstwhile zamindar family entered into an “agreement of sale” for 91 acres of land to Azure Power Forty Pvt Ltd in Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Assam’s Nagaon district to build a solar power plant. The land deal directly affected the livelihoods of at