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Friday, November 14, 2025
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Topic: GDP

Simplifying GST rates

When the idea of a GST was introduced, no one had intended (or dreamt) that there would be four rates of tax other than the zero rate.

Talk Point: SME sector is yet to see its output recover to pre-demonetisation levels

Economic activity in the informal sector are yet to recover from the shock as no job creation seems to have taken place in this sector.

There Is Something In The Air

It isn’t what you think. Political winds haven’t shifted yet. But the air is thick with doubts, economic stress is hurting and for the first time since his rise in 2013, the PM is fighting back.

Demonetisation, GST take shine off Delhi’s jewellery hub, trigger job distress

Sales fell sharply after November 2016, jewellers say struggling to pay workers who haven’t been sacked.

Delhi gold bangle manufacturing unit owner speaks on job losses due to slowing economy

The owner of a gold bangle manufacturing unit in Old Delhi’s Kucha Mahajani market speaks about job losses due to a slowing economy and other factors like demonetisation and GST.

Growth with inequality

While GDP growth has been discussed there has been a lack of debate about a recent paper about sharply growing inequality in India.

Talk Point: What is to blame for the Indian economic slowdown? How can growth be revived?

As the debate rages over who's to blame for a slowing economy, a panel of eminent experts including Rahul Bajaj, Adi Godrej, Ajay Shah, Arvind Virmani and Ajit Ranade explain what can be done to revive it.

The sub-seven reality

For India to return to sustained 7 percent growth, it will need serious reform of the kind not attempted so far.

Former RBI governor’s six secrets to unshackling India’s economy

Instead of sweeping reforms,Bimal Jalan advocates smaller changes that will strengthen governmental institutions

Exclusive: Unemployment is low as people have to work to earn, says India’s chief statistician

Amid talk of jobless growth and the urgent need for India to create employment for its millions of young men and women, the Chief Statistician of India, T.C.A. Ananth, says there is not much evidence to show that the unemployment scenario may have worsened in the last three or four years. Anubhuti Vishnoi

On Camera

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.