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Friday, March 29, 2024
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ADB cuts India’s GDP rate to 5.1% in FY20, cites poor job growth & rural distress

The Asian Development Bank had in September projected India's GDP growth at 6.5% in FY19 and 7.2% in FY20.

Nandan Nilekani: India’s financial inclusion is on fast track because of these 3 big ideas

Innovative platforms like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Uber wouldn't have been so successful without the class of silent public technology investment.

Is India is moving to ‘rule by gun’ asks Faizan Mustafa, Arvind Subramanian on better data

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

What’s recession? The economic term back in conversation after Sitharaman’s Parliament reply

Economists Raghuram Rajan, Rathin Roy among many debating if India is in the midst of recession after Nirmala Sitharaman brings it up in Parliament.

PM Modi’s ‘regressive’ CAB, a ‘ghar-wapsi’ and shrinking GDP in winters

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

Rate cuts won’t help India. RBI needs to increase money supply through quantitative easing

If RBI views asset purchases as a way to influence the waning quantity of money, then it should act now. Doing so may well save the day.

Manmohan Singh right about fear? Industrialists hailed corporate tax cut but silent now

PM Manmohan Singh has cited fear in Indian society as one of the factors responsible for the slowdown in economy.

With low GDP, RBI’s Shaktikanta Das will need more than rate cuts and a good reputation

For Shaktikanta Das to even contemplate taking his foot off the monetary pedal now would be a mistake.

How to mask the fall in GDP growth rate, and new Maharashtra relationships

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

India’s shock GDP growth rate is a crisis Modi govt should not waste

It would be a pity if Modi govt keeps ignoring bad economic news. Danger of doing nothing is that growth of 6% or less becomes the norm, not the unacceptable.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.