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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicEconomic slowdown

Topic: economic slowdown

Economic Survey 2020 projects 6-6.5% growth for Indian economy in next fiscal

To enable Indian economy to strongly rebound in 2020-21, Economic Survey 2020 urges Modi govt to use its strong mandate to expeditiously deliver on reforms.

Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget has to present credible numbers, and commit to fiscal prudence

While the time to do fiscal expansion is when the economy is slowing, there is little point in having a discussion around numbers that people do not believe.

Maggi, fridge, clothes, mobile data, booze — nothing is selling in slowdown-hit rural UP

Kids are denied lunch and weddings are austere as rural consumption takes a beating due to economic slowdown. ThePrint travels through UP to meet people caught in the crisis.

Economist, Soros: Has Hindu nationalism increased global criticism of India or bad economy?

The Economist criticised the Modi govt in its latest cover story titled ‘Intolerant India’ while billionaire George Soros said Modi was creating a 'Hindu nationalist state' at Davos.

Young, educated, jobless: These men in UP villages have nothing to do but play cricket

Sharp slowdown in India’s growth is not limited to its cities. ThePrint travels to towns, villages to find shocking stories of economic crisis and hardship.

India’s painful ‘stagflation’ is now spreading to other emerging economies

India may be witnessing the most glaring setback among emerging economies, but its double pain of slowing growth & surging inflation is spreading far and wide.

India needs a lot more policy stability to attract investors: Arvind Panagariya

In an interview to ThePrint, former Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya also raises questions on the rhetoric to replace imports with domestic commodities.

Remove GST bottlenecks, boost rural spending among BJP’s 150 suggestions for Budget 2020

BJP leaders met nearly 200 organisations, sectoral representatives and macroeconomists, and made suggestions to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Indian rupee expected to be top performer in Asia this year, key forecaster says

The worst of India’s economic slowdown has passed and the authorities are unlikely to use currency depreciation as a measure to revive growth.

It’s Indira Gandhi’s 1974 in India again, but Modi faces a harsh new reality

CAA-NRC-NPR has divided India like nothing in decades, and the world is disappointed, if not critical. The stakes for Modi are higher than for Indira Gandhi.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.