Economy

Websites promoting desi bitcoins in the garb of ‘Make in India’ initiative; Delhi Police receives 8 complaints in a month; people duped of crores of rupees.

वित्त मंत्री के दावे सही हो सकते हैं लेकिन इनमें से कोई भी दावा उनके सामने खड़ी चुनौतियों की जटिलताओं को दूर नहीं कर सकेगा.

Economist Bibek Debroy and columnist Sadanand Dhume's Twitter exchange through limericks on India's jobs crisis and the H-1B visa tweak created a buzz.

While China’s Xi has resorted to an anti-corruption campaign, Japan’s Abe and Modi have switched to nationalism to retain popularity.

Driving isn’t their only job on days like New Years’ Eve or Christmas; facing rowdy passengers and cleaning vomit also figure in a day’s work.

From introduction of Goods and Services Tax to privatisation of Air India, the Modi government took some major policy decisions in 2017.

Govt departments are currently discussing a 30-point action plan to achieve this target under Modi’s pet ‘Digital India’ scheme.

A huge mistake India made post-Independence was the lack of emphasis on primary and secondary education, says member of PM’s Economic Advisory Council. New Delhi: Surjit Bhalla, economist and member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Economic Advisory Council, has hit out at policy-makers of the past for what he called making a complete shamble of India’s growth potential. “If there’s anything possibly wrong that a policy-maker can do, anywhere in the world, at any time in history, we’ve done it here,” Bhalla said, while comparing India’s growth trajectory to that of China. “Historically, sometimes China was rich and sometimes India. This continued for 480 years. But, China’s meteoric rise in economic growth in a short span of time led to the Indian economy falling far behind in the race,” he said. In that period, China’s economy underwent a shift from a largely agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse, and in the process saw sharp increase in productivity, wages that allowed China to become the...

From telecom minister A. Raja to whistleblower Subramanian Swamy, the list of names associated with the scam features many powerful figures.