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The interim budget in February gave a substantial stimulus to the taxpayer. Almost three crore taxpayers moved out of the net, as the min...Read More

The latest monthly economic report of the Department of Economic Affairs of the Finance Ministry has some worrying trends. The economic g...Read More

In less than a month we will have elected the seventeenth Lok Sabha. The seat tally across parties will determine who gets to form the ne...Read More

The ball has been set rolling for the biggest election of the world. About 900 million voters will go to a million booths to elect 545 me...Read More

The Supreme Court recently rejected a petition which asked that “criminal” candidates be disqualified from contesting elections. These ar...Read More

We are still three months away from the national elections. Pundits say that elections are always about the economy. The recent Union Bud...Read More

There was much drama involving economic data on the eve of the budget. Firstly, the remaining two independent members of the Statistical ...Read More

The year began with great optimism about economic growth. The previous year i.e. 2017 had concluded with actual growth beating earlier es...Read More

This December 12 is the third death anniversary of Sharad Joshi, founder of the Shetkari Sanghatana, the farmers’ organisation. At a time...Read More

The big news this week was on two key prices. One is the price of the almighty dollar, and the other is the price of petrol (or diesel). ...Read More

The government releases official data on quarterly growth of national income, with a time gap of exactly two months. On August 31, it rep...Read More

It is received wisdom that prior to the era of liberalisation, the Indian economy was a story of chronic shortages. This was the fate of ...Read More