India’s economy grew at a steady pace in 2025 despite a global climate of sluggish growth, decelerating investment and weakening trade. Estimated real GDP growth for 2025 is close to 7 per cent, ...

C AN ONE of the world’s most protectionist economies become one of its most open? Can a country that has consistently failed to exploit its vast pool of unskilled labour to build a strong ...

When India unfurled its tricolour on August 15, 1947, the country's economy was a far cry from the vibrant, fast-growing one we know today. Back then, India was largely agrarian, its industries ...

India's economy expanded at a faster-than-expected annual rate of 7.4% in the quarter ended in March. That marked the country's strongest quarterly growth in the fiscal year of 2025. New Delhi could ...

Few offices in India’s post-independence governance have carried as much weight or invited as much scrutiny as that of the finance minister. From navigating food shortages and foreign exchange crises ...

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink urges India to prioritize domestic capital markets over foreign inflows for sustained economic ...

India celebrates its 77th Republic Day, reflecting on a remarkable 77-year economic journey. From a $30 billion agrarian economy in 1950, India has transformed into a global powerhouse with a $4 ...

The gross domestic product print for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2026 came in higher than the 6.7% growth forecast by economists in a Reuters poll Nominal GDP growth is showing signs of ...

As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present the 2026-27 Union Budget, she will set a historic record by ...

But nothing is easy, and this army of gig workers, set to expand from 7.7m in 2020-2021 to 23.5m by 2029-30, according to NITI Aayog, a government think-tank, has fuelled a rancorous national debate ...

Growth of gig workers outpaces overall employment, with non-agricultural gigs projected to constitute 6.7% of workforce by ...