Most countries likely to go into recession, but India will see positive growth: Former RBI director

Vipin Malik on the central bank’s recent rate cuts and what its post-lockdown policy should be.

Prathamesh Mulye, Qz.com

· Apr 29, 2020 · 08:30 pm

LIC has been Indians’ security net for decades. It is now facing an uncertain future

Amid plummeting Sensex, the Life Insurance Corporation of India lost Rs 1.84 lakh crore in 2020.

Manavi Kapur, qz.com

· Mar 25, 2020 · 08:30 pm

As the world enters another recession, here are the lessons to remember from 2008

Is the ‘trickle-down’ approach, which protects banks and corporations first, the best way forward?

Ken-Hou Lin, The Conversation

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Megan Neely, The Conversation

· Mar 24, 2020 · 01:30 pm

No, Jaggi Vasudev, CAA protests are not what is scaring global investors away from India

The government is doing a splendid job snubbing foreign investors on its own.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jan 23, 2020 · 01:56 pm

The layoff spree across India’s major startups is not likely to slow down in 2020

Data released last year shows that unemployment in 2017-’18 was at a 45-year high.

Niharika Sharma, qz.com

· Jan 17, 2020 · 08:30 pm

Economic slowdown: Output of eight core industries declined 1.5% in November, shows data

Five of eight sectors – coal, crude oil, natural gas, steel, and electricity – contracted.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2019 · 07:00 pm

Indian economy faces liquidity shortage, needs quick decisions, says Union minister Nitin Gadkari

Gadkari said the country’s economy was going through a challenging situation and that around Rs 89,000 crore worth of cases were pending.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 23, 2019 · 12:20 pm

Economic slowdown: Priyanka Gandhi criticises BJP, says people have been left to suffer

Meanwhile, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reviewed the state of the economy at a meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 07, 2019 · 03:23 pm

Economic slowdown: Congress announces nationwide protests from November 5 to 15

The party has also planned to hold 35 press conferences across the country between November 1 and 8.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 30, 2019 · 06:06 pm

Abhijit Banerjee’s prescription for Indian economy: ‘Stop PMO interference, raise NREGA wages, pray’

The economist, who was awarded the Nobel prize on Monday, spoke just last week about what Indian policymakers need to do.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Oct 14, 2019 · 05:17 pm

After penny-pinching for months, Indians are ready to spend again during festive season: Survey

Forty per cent of respondents said they plan to spend up to Rs 50,000 on home renovations and appliances.

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· Sep 23, 2019 · 01:30 pm

BJP’s ideology is to keep India in economic slowdown, claims Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia

The Congress leader said that every record was being broken in terms of economic decline in the past six quarters.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 16, 2019 · 10:43 am