Economy not doing as badly as made out to be

Sen says despite the respite coming in terms of inflation data, liquidity management is the key to Indian economy.

Calcutta High Court on Tuesday adjourned till May 13 the hearing of a petition by SFI leader Sudipto Gupta's father, Pronab Gupta, seeking a CBI probe into the death of his son.

The Budget target of a 4.8 per cent fiscal deficit for 2013-14 is reasonably realistic.

Among the untargeted subsidies, he would like to see the fuel and fertiliser subsidies being pared down. In the case of food, the cost of holding foodgrain stocks is much more than the actual subsidy, he points out.

RBI grapples with an unusual inflation story Annapurna Singh, May 20, 2013, DHNS : Amid concerns at India’s economic growth likely to touch a decadal low of 5 per cent in 2012-13 and industrial output dipping to a 20-year low in the same ...

Thus, even while the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said in its advance estimates that GDP growth for 2012-13 would be 5 percent, Sen thinks it should be higher, at 6.5 percent. Or so he told The Economic Times in an interview today. Last year, the ...

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NEW DELHI: With India's booming services sector contributing over half of the country's ( GDP), the government would soon roll out an Annual Survey of Services to create the first official database on the sector. The survey is expected to improve ...