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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicGrowth Rate

Topic: Growth Rate

How Jharkhand can get the right IAS officers to turnaround like Chhattisgarh

Both were carved out of BIMARU states, but one raced ahead.

Modi ji, stop repeating Vajpayee’s mistake on the economy

The Vajpayee govt suppressed food prices and lost, while the first Manmohan Singh govt corrected that and was re-elected. It’s good politics and good economics.

Third World catching up with the West is a big win for economic theory

Some countries are even set to make the leap from developing to developed status, as South Korea has already done.

Demand is cooling and that explains why RBI didn’t hike interest rates

Capacity utilisation rate, consumer confidence, and outlook for demand in manufacturing sector in third quarter were less optimistic, RBI surveys show.

Despite India’s economic growth, the moment for China-like job creation may be lost

Reduction of employment-generating tendency of economic growth has been especially marked in the last 15 years

India’s software exports are not the answer to the rising oil bill

Attention has to be focused on the relative stagnation in merchandise exports over the medium term.

Simplify GST to maintain high growth, IMF tells India

Also urges a clean-up of banks' balance sheets as it projects growth at 7.8% for FY 19-20.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.