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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicGDP growth

Topic: GDP growth

RBI begins MPC meeting with new ‘dovish’ members, all eyes on growth, inflation forecasts

The tilt of the new members is seen as dovish, but market participants don’t see further interest rate cuts. The three-day MPC meeting is under way.

Methodological ambiguities in GDP data must be sorted out, standing committee on finance says

The parliamentary panel said authentic and credible data is crucial for planning, policy structuring, informed decision making and inclusive growth.

Investor sentiment still low. But green shoots in bank loans, GST collections, power usage

Double-digit growth seems optimistic. Modi govt needs to more than double its expenditure to compensate for the losses and avert GDP decline. It's fanciful at best.

India’s economic growth has seen a consistent fall, Gods cannot be blamed for everything

In episode 560 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains why the Indian economy's contraction by a record 23.9% is part of a larger pattern.

Not Sushant Singh Rajput, not Rhea Chakraborty. It’s the economy, stupid

As Indian economy shrunk by 23.9%, many were left with prayer to cope with this invisible ‘hand of God’ – they morphed the Go Corona Go chant to Grow GDP Grow.

Indian economy is heading for a K-shaped recovery and it won’t be a pretty sight

K-shaped recovery means the growing gap between ‘winners and losers’. An example in India is the stock market being healthy while millions have lost their jobs.

India’s fiscal crisis can only get worse as tax revenue is seen dropping 12.5% in 2020-21

GST revenue collected this August was 12% lower than the amount last August, and the economy is only crawling back to life post the Covid-19 lockdown.

Jolted by Q1 slump, economists rush to further lower GDP forecast for fiscal 2020-21

While SBI has predicted nearly 11% contraction for the whole year and negative growth in all four quarters, others have also revised already-bleak estimates.

GDP numbers show Modi govt needs to work on stimulating demand

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Why India fell off the global middle-class map

A stunted middle class may be a direct result of extreme inequality. Folks at the top don’t see teeming masses as a meaningful market, except for utilities, soap, short videos, and personal loans.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.