GST has transformed economy: PM in Mann Ki Baat

Instead of a consumption stimulus the government must address the NPA issue on a war footing and invest in infrastructure, affordable housing and exports, says Sanjeev Nayyar. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. The economic slowdown and GDP growth of 5.7 per cent in the April-June quarter 2017 has dominated the media discourse for the last week. Much was expected from the prime minister's speech at the Bharatiya Janata Party's national executive meeting. The focus was, however, on ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi established a direct dialogue with district collectors and senior state and central government officials across the country through a video conference on Wednesday, asking them to work in a mission mode and transform their regions ...

Scientists all over the world look forward to the first week of October when the Nobel Prizes for the year are announced. This announcement begins with physiology and medicine and ends with the Nobel Peace Prize. The award relating to economics bear the name ...

By Francesco Guarascio and Robert-Jan Bartunek LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers were discussing on Monday the role of their bailout fund in the planned deepening of the economic integration of the 19 countries sharing the euro and whether ...

Working on various areas across the railway ecosystem in India can create 10 lakh jobs within a year, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said today. Monetising the real estate assets as well as fast tracking some of the existing investment plans would generate a lot ...

Since Modi and his team expect to win the 2019 elections, the groundwork for improved performance in their second term should be done now, says T N Ninan. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com. Is the economy paying the price for the government's failure to undertake basic reform over the past three years? Almost certainly, yes, just as it is also paying the price for the previous government's failure to undertake structural reform. The time to take the difficult decisions was when the going ...

There is no connection between development and winning elections. Certainly not in India’s most populous state There are many ways to propaganda, but none more ingenious than that devised in where else, but Uttar Pradesh. For instance, how do you find out ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh supremo Mohan Bhagwat on 30th September attended RSS annual event on Vijay Dashami at Nagpur. In the event, while addressing the crowd Bhagwat talk about issues such as the Rohingya refugee crisis, cow vigilantism, the current ...

Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Yashwant Sinha on Thursday stuck to his guns after government's strong rebuttal of his stinging criticism of its handling of the economy over which union minister Jayant Sinha also joined issue with his father and stoutly defended the economic policies. An unfazed Yashwant Sinha, who had launched a blistering attack on the government, and the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in particular, that set off a political storm, hoped the Centre would do some course ...