New consumer basket, expanded markets & digital datasets aim to make inflation estimates more representative, says MoSPI Secretary Saurabh Garg. Henceforth, MoSPI aims to revise base yr every 5 yrs.
Economic Survey 2025-26 presents a picture of an economy that is stronger, more resilient. But it also makes one thing clear: India’s biggest challenge now is execution.
Most poor countries that experimented with democracy failed to sustain it. While some collapsed into military rule, others slid into one-party states or ethnic autocracies.
The Modi govt shifted the burden of investing for growth from companies to the public sector. The share of government capital spending in GDP terms has doubled since 2014.
The latest World Economic Forum outlook for the year shows a modest improvement in confidence, but mounting concerns over debt, AI-driven volatility and a fractured trade order.
China’s exports to India have grown by 13.46 per cent between the first nine months of the 2024-2025 financial year and the 2025-26 financial year, according to the latest trade data.
The system was to delivered in March but will now reach the Indian shores by May, or June. The fifth S-400 will be delivered in the last quarter of this year.
Wealth inequality is an irrelevant ethical measure of a society. So long as everyone grows more prosperous (which is happening in India barring the inevitable bumps along the way) it doesn’t matter whether some grow richer faster than others, In fact, it is inevitable that people will gain money at different rates.
What a fool to write this article without having read the report. Even a single reading will tell that The Oxfam Report with respect to indirect taxes is based on estimated expenditure on certain food items and non-food items. According to the report, of the total GST collected from these food and non-food items, 64.3% is collected from the bottom 50% income group and 3-4% from the top 10% income group. Thus, the percentage is not with respect to the total GST revenue but GST from only some selected items.
And The Print is even bigger fool to put this article on their website.
Wealth inequality is an irrelevant ethical measure of a society. So long as everyone grows more prosperous (which is happening in India barring the inevitable bumps along the way) it doesn’t matter whether some grow richer faster than others, In fact, it is inevitable that people will gain money at different rates.
What a fool to write this article without having read the report. Even a single reading will tell that The Oxfam Report with respect to indirect taxes is based on estimated expenditure on certain food items and non-food items. According to the report, of the total GST collected from these food and non-food items, 64.3% is collected from the bottom 50% income group and 3-4% from the top 10% income group. Thus, the percentage is not with respect to the total GST revenue but GST from only some selected items.
And The Print is even bigger fool to put this article on their website.