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New jobs posted on Naukri.com, India’s largest recruitment website, showed an increase of 8% in September compared to the same month last year. However, the headline number was boosted by […]
Subramanian Swamy is often accused of propagating outlandish ideas and suggestions, but at least on the issue of addressing a slowdown in India’s GDP growth, he seems to be closer […]
Naveen Jindal, chairman of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, one of India’s biggest steelmakers, today said the country is going through an economic slowdown, but assured investors that his company […]
Anuj Puri, chairman of Anarock Property Consultants, today called on the Reserve Bank of India to go for a cut of at least half a percentage point in the overnight […]
Amid reports that the two-wheeler industry in India is bracing for production cuts to deal with a dip in demand, Bajaj Auto, one of India’s biggest motorcycle maker, said it […]
Morgan Stanley Research, part of the MS financial services group, said the US currency has likely peaked already and that the US Federal Reserve is likely to follow a more […]
India’s finance minister Piyush Goel has blamed international factors for the current decline in the rupee’s value against the dollar, and said India’s financial situation is much improved from the […]
The core sector growth in India’s Index of Industrial Production was at 5.3% for February 2018, the government said today. In January, the growth was 6.1%. The highest growth was […]
The Indian banking system is likely to get a permanent liquidity boost of Rs 1.7 lakh cr due to the demonetization of high-denomination bank notes, State Bank of India chief economic […]
High fuel prices, particularly that of diesel, lifted India’s wholesale price index to its highest level since the Narendra Modi government took power almost three years ago. On an overall […]
Hiring activity fell 8% October this year compared to the same month a year ago, according to Naukri.com’s Job Speak Index. This dip was primarily caused by the festive season […]
The Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the estimates of Gross Domestic Product(GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1, of 2016-17, both at constant […]
India’s industrial production index for core industries rose 3.2% in July compared to a year ago, indicating a slight improvement in economic activities. The eight core industries, that comprise nearly […]
Sentiment in the Indian private sector remains low, even as individual consumption is starting to pick up, Singapore-based DBS bank said. “Industrial lending slowed to 0.5% year on year in Apr-May […]
The Naukri Job Speak Index reported a jump of 27% in hiring activity in May this year compared to last year. “Sustained growth in IT-Software and ITES during the year […]
International financial services firm Morgan Stanley said it expects the formation of bad loans to decline 40% this financial year, based on industry feedback. “Our view is that new NPL […]
The results of latest round of FICCI’s Economic Outlook Survey puts across a median GDP growth forecast of 7.7% for the fiscal year 2016-17. The growth in 2016-17 is expected […]
The combined Index of Eight Core Industries stands at 188.0 in March, 2016, which was 6.4 % higher compared to the index of March, 2015. With this, the cumulative growth […]
The overall wholesale price index for January declined by 1.0 percent, primarily due to lower fuel costs, but prices of primary articles and pulses continued to increase or remain high. […]
Business conditions across the Indian manufacturing economy improved further in October, but purchasing manager index showed weakness, research commissioned by The Nikkei newspaper showed. October saw the weakest rise in […]