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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicEconomic slowdown

Topic: economic slowdown

COVID-19: ‘India in Lockdown’ in TOI, Mint on ‘great fight’, ‘shades of Wuhan’ warns Tribune

A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.

The 5 days when world economy’s guardians fought virus and market turmoil

As the week draws to an end, an unprecedented 31 central banks have slashed interest rates and many of them have even activated the crisis playbook.

Biggest factory shutdown since world war II hits US, Europe

The shutdowns this time are coming after a bad 2019 for manufacturers around the globe, with the US and Germany reporting plummeting economies.

Modi govt is considering easier loans, tax rules to help economy fight coronavirus

The Finance Ministry is considering extending loan tenors and relaxing bad-debt norms for small firms.

Institutions of law & order abandoned dharma, those of justice, media failed India: Manmohan

Former PM Manmohan Singh said social unrest, economic ruin and coronavirus outbreak could diminish India's global standing as an economic and democratic power.

Blame Modi govt’s political, social agenda for slowdown, says Raghuram Rajan

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says Modi govt has focused more on fulfilling its political and social agenda rather than paying attention to economic growth.

Slowdown persists, economy grew 4.7% in Q3 2019-20 — the ‘lowest in 27 quarters’

Economic recovery remains elusive as sectors such as manufacturing and electricity contract. Full year GDP growth forecast at 5%.

Nirmala Sitharaman can’t just talk up the economy to make it grow faster

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Coronavirus adds risk to India’s nascent recovery, Chief Economic Adviser Subramanian says

India’s economy is seeing some green shoots but faces unknown risks from the coronavirus outbreak, Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian says.

Eye on slowdown, Modi govt revs up infra spending with Rs 1.7 lakh crore outlay

Within the infra sector, the allocation for highways got the biggest boost over last year — going up 10% to Rs 91,823.22 crore

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.