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Principal Secretary-2 to the PM, Shaktikanta Das, highlights India's 7.8% average GDP growth as a blueprint for navigating global volatility. With global risks tilted to the downside due to frequent geopolitical shocks, India's experience offers a model of navigating volatility through structural reforms, policy discipline, and innovation, Principal Secretary-2 to the Prime Minister of India Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday. The global economy has been grappling with persistent shocks, includi ...Read More >
Moody's Ratings has slashed India's economic growth estimates for the current fiscal to 6% from 6.8% earlier, saying the ongoing conflict in West Asia will moderate growth momentum and raise inflation risks. In its credit opinion report on India, Moody's said prolonged disruptions, particularly LPG shipments due to the conflict, would lead to near-term household shortages, higher fuel and transport costs, and spillovers to food inflation through India's reliance on imported fertilisers. Moody' ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): Economists and industry leaders on Wednesday largely backed the Reserve Bank of India's decision to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent, saying the central bank's cautious approach is appropriate amid global uncertainties and rising energy prices. Experts said the move reflects a balancing act between controlling inflation and sustaining economic growth. Dipti Deshpande, Principal Economist at Crisil Ltd, said the RBI's decision to maintain the polic ...Read More >
Consequently, the standing deposit facility (SDF) rate remains at 5 per cent and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the bank rate remain at 5.5 per cent. The committee, which held its 60th meeting from April 6 to 8 under the chairmanship of RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra, also decided to continue with the neutral stance, the monetary policy statement released after the meeting said. Elevated energy and other commodity prices coupled with supply shock due to disruptions in the Strait o ...Read More >
The Reserve Bank of India forecasts a slowdown in India's GDP growth to 6.9% due to the West Asia crisis and global supply chain disruptions, impacting commodity prices and export routes. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters Key Points RBI projects India's GDP growth at 6.9% for the current financial year, lower than the previous estimate. Disruptions in key shipping routes due to the West Asia crisis are expected to adversely impact merchandise exports. Sustained momentum in the services sect ...Read More >
New Delhi: Global rating agency Moody's Ratings slashed India's economic growth estimates for the current fiscal to 6 per cent from 6.8 percent earlier, saying the ongoing conflict in West Asia will moderate growth momentum and raise inflation risks as well. "While inflation remains contained for now, geopolitical risks have tilted the inflation outlook to the upside," Moody's said in its credit opinion report on India, while projecting inflation to average 4.8 per cent in FY27, up from 2.4 per ...Read More >
New Delhi: Moody's Ratings has slashed India's economic growth estimates for the current fiscal to 6 per cent from 6.8 per cent earlier, saying the ongoing conflict in West Asia will moderate growth momentum and raise inflation risks. In its credit opinion report on India, Moody's said prolonged disruptions, particularly LPG shipments due to the conflict, would lead to near-term household shortages, higher fuel and transport costs, and spillovers to food inflation through India's reliance on imp ...Read More >
Chennai: With the West Asia crisis impacting the fuel prices and availability, CPI inflation is expected to move up to 4.1 - 4.3 per cent in FY27, find rating agencies. The GDP growth could also ease to 6.5 per cent in FY27 from 7.5 per cent estimated for FY26. The ongoing conflict in West Asia has led to a surge in energy prices and impacted availability, which could lead to higher inflation, impacting consumer demand. The average CPI inflation is anticipated to more than double to 4.3% in FY ...Read More >
The latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report suggests that India's domestic strength continues to offset the impact of rising US tariffs and global trade tensions. India's Growth Outlook According to the IMF, the 6.6% forecast reflects strong performance in the first quarter of 2025, which helped neutralise much of the tariff-related impact on exports. However, the figure is 0.2 percentage points lower than the pre-tariff projection made in October 2024. India's economic expansion is expect ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Growth for the Indian economy is projected to remain resilient amid global uncertainties and the outlook for inflation has been revised downwards, opening up policy space for further supporting growth, a report by RBI said."The Indian economy displayed resilience amid broader global uncertainty and weak external demand," said RBI's state of the economy report released on Monday. It noted that "global uncertainty has edged up" and that "trade tensions have started to simmer yet again".Acc ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): Highlighting India's growing economic potential, the 15th Finance Commission Chairman NK Singh stated that the country's large unsaturated domestic market offers significant opportunities for private investment, public-private partnerships, external private investment, and internal resource mobilisation. Speaking on the sidelines of the 4th 'Kautilya Economic Conclave 2025' in the national captial on Friday, Singh said, "We are at the inflexion point when the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 29 (PTI) Global rating Moody's on Monday affirmed India's long-term local and foreign-currency issuer ratings and the local-currency senior unsecured rating at 'Baa3' with a 'stable' outlook on the back of robust economic growth and sound external position. The rating agency also affirmed India's other short-term local-currency rating at P-3. "The rating affirmation and stable outlook reflect our view that India's prevailing credit strengths, including its large, fast-growing ec ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to lower policy rates by 25 basis points each in the upcoming Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meetings in October and December, taking the terminal policy rate to 5 per cent, according to a report by Morgan Stanley. The global brokerage firm noted that the central bank now has room for monetary easing as inflation continues to undershoot the target. Also Read | Vishwakarma Jayanti 2025: Why Vishwakarma Puja Is C ...Read More >
MUMBAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - S&P Global Ratings on Thursday upgraded India's long-term sovereign credit rating to 'BBB' from 'BBB-', the first upgrade in 18 years, citing strong economic growth, improved monetary policy credibility, and sustained fiscal consolidation. Fitch has rated India at 'BBB-' since 2006 while Moody's has had a 'Baa3' rating in place since June 2020. The upgrade follows S&P's decision in May 2024 to revise India's outlook to positive from stable, driven by robust growth an ...Read More >
MUMBAI (Reuters) -S&P Global Ratings on Thursday upgraded India's long-term sovereign credit rating to 'BBB' from 'BBB-', the first upgrade in 18 years, citing strong economic growth, improved monetary policy credibility, and sustained fiscal consolidation. Fitch has rated India at 'BBB-' since 2006 while Moody's has had a 'Baa3' rating in place since June 2020. The upgrade follows S&P's decision in May 2024 to revise India's outlook to positive from stable, driven by robust growth and better ...Read More >
VMPL New Delhi [India], August 14: Ellenox, India's largest venture studio, is accelerating its global push in enterprise AI development. In the past year, the company has grown its headcount by 50% over the last year, bringing in senior AI talent from Amazon and Google to power its next phase of expansion. Already delivering AI transformation for Fortune 50 leaders in fintech, cloud computing, consumer social, and sports-tech, Ellenox has built systems that replace costly call centers with na ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) S&P on Thursday upgraded India's sovereign credit rating to 'BBB' with a stable outlook after a gap of nearly 19 years, citing robust economic growth, political commitment for fiscal consolidation and 'conducive' monetary policy to check inflation. "India remains among the best performing economies in the world...The quality of government spending has improved in the past five to six years," S&P Global Ratings said. The impact of US tariffs on the Indian economy will be ...Read More >
Kinnaur: A cloudburst was reported in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district on Wednesday evening. Due to the cloudburst, a sudden flash flood struck Hojis Lungpa Nala. Notably, the site was an active road construction zone under CPWD towards Gangthang Bralam. A rescue operation was launched to rescue the stranded civilians. The Indian Army was also called in to help the local administration. The Army has deployed its new generation equipment to assist in the operation. The Logistics Drone High Al ...Read More >
Mumbai: Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said US tariffs-related challenges will dissipate in the next one or two quarters, and urged the private sector to do more as the country navigates through other longer-term challenges. He attributed the growth slowdown in FY25, which saw a deceleration to 6.5 per cent from FY24's 9.2 per cent, to tight credit conditions and liquidity issues. The right agriculture policies can add 25 per cent to real GDP growth, Nageswaran added. ...Read More >
Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said US tariffs-related challenges will dissipate in the next one or two quarters, and urged the private sector to do more as the country navigates through other longer-term challenges. He attributed the growth slowdown in FY25, which saw a deceleration to 6.5 per cent from FY24's 9.2 per cent, to tight credit conditions and liquidity issues. The right agriculture policies can add 25 per cent t ...Read More >
New Delhi/Imphal, Aug 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made a second consecutive arrest in the 2024 killings in Manipur's Jiribam, central probe agency sources said on Friday. The NIA in a statement said that the national probe agency caught Lalrosang Hmar alias Rosang, a resident of Moinathol Village in southern Assam's Cachar district, from the Mizoram capital Aizawl on Thursday. The arrest came after the arrest of another key accused, Thanglienlal Hmar, by a jo ...Read More >
New Delhi, August 1: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is projected to keep repo rates unchanged in the upcoming Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on August 6, a report said on Friday. Amid global market uncertainties and tariff concerns, India's GDP is projected to be 7 per cent in the upcoming three quarters, higher than current estimates, according to the report from HSBC Global Investment Research. Analysts believe that the GDP deflator has too much WPI inflation in it. "Such a scenario ...Read More >
India pays digitally: 2025 marks the third year of the 'Har payment digital' initiative by Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Indeed, it is huge leap: India crossed 20 billion payments (approximating ₹250 trillion) through digital modes (Sanjay Malhotra, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, March 10, 2025). However, while there is no denying the convenience and time-saving brought in by the quantum leap in digital payments, do digital payments actually contribute to GDP growth? Are payments leadi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): Corporate revenue growth in India may face a slowdown in the coming financial year due to weaker nominal GDP growth, according to a recent report by Jefferies. The report estimates that India's nominal GDP growth is likely to ease to 9 per cent in FY26. This would be the second-lowest pace since FY04, excluding the pandemic-hit FY21. The slowdown in nominal GDP growth is expected, despite stable real GDP growth of 6.5 per cent, mainly due to lower inflation, wh ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): India will continue to grow robustly, even among major industrialised G7 countries, the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) said in a report on 'Population, Productivity, Partnership: Rethinking G7-India Collaboration'. The PHDCCI report added that with an average real GDP growth of more than 8 per cent from 2021 to 2024, India has consistently outpaced all G7 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI) The higher oil prices triggered by a brief Israel-Iran war have come down, but it is too soon to sound the "all clear" for the rest of the year, said a finance ministry report on Friday. The ministry's monthly economic review also stressed that with no major imbalances in the macro aggregates, a subdued inflation rate combined with a growth-supportive monetary policy stance, India's macroeconomic health is in a relative goldilocks situation. The brief Israel-Iran war, f ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation rate between 2017 and 2021, a revised extreme poverty line of USD 3 would constitute a 15 per cent higher threshold than USD 2.15 expressed in 2021 prices and result in a 5.3 per cent poverty rate in 2022-23, the World Bank said in a report. Also Read | ICU Hor ...Read More >
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