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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicEconomic slowdown

Topic: economic slowdown

RBI’s record Rs 1.76 lakh crore booster shot lifts stocks, bonds and rupee

The windfall is a timely boost for the Modi government that is looking to spur economic growth as a sustained slowdown has rung alarm bells.

After Modi govt announcements, Indian stocks, bonds rally despite selloff in rest of Asia

Equities bucked the selloff in Asia as trade tensions that roiled stocks globally eased somewhat following Donald Trump stating that China asked to re-start trade talks.

Parliament House upgrades to ‘home theater’, and PV Sindhu nets World Championship

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

India’s steel consumption set for slowest growth in 3 years

Steel companies are taking a battering this year as a crisis in the country’s shadow banking sector fueled a cash crunch, and economic growth slowed to a five-year low.

Modi govt’s stimulus plan for economy falls short on vision

India is still waiting interminably for larger firms to be allowed to flourish, smaller firms to get cheap financing & state to retreat from business.

Parle-G is not just a humble biscuit. It’s a part of India’s cultural consciousness

The news of Parle potentially laying off 10,000 employees has led to an outpouring of nostalgia for one of India’s oldest biscuit brands.

Modi govt considering exempting foreign investors from super-rich tax

The proposal to tax the super rich, along with the Budget's lack of measures to boost the economy, led to foreigners withdrawing more than $3 billion from Indian shares.

Justice Lokur on judicial reform, Richard Haas roots for India, Narayanan’s warning on Kashmir

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Global bond rally passes by India as uncertainty kills its markets

Bond yields globally are declining and bonds in India are less enthused given the lack of clarity on the govt’s spending plans and its foreign debt debut.

Price surge spells ‘hell’ for India’s gold sales as demand wanes

A combination of high taxes, record prices, slowing economic growth and floods are poised to erode India’s gold demand in the peak festival season.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.