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Top 10 richest countries in 2025: check if India makes the list

December 23, 2025 6:56 pm

Top 10 richest countries in the world in 2025: Smaller nations such as Luxembourg and Singapore often come out on top because they have strong financial systems, business-friendly tax rules, and attract large amounts of foreign investment.

On Tuesday, Nageswaran argued that similar complaints about the single-deflator method were not heard when wholesale inflation was high in 2021-22 and 2022-23, which likely reduced services sector growth on a real basis.

‘We don’t hear murmurs... when data disappoints’: CEA Nageswaran hits out at GDP critics

December 24, 2025 5:51 am

India GDP critics response: The government's top economist said the extent of informality in India is overestimated. Urges MoSPI to make manuals public to enable ‘replicability’ and establish credibility.

Andrew Sorkin's book describes how the 1929 crash wrecked economies and lives. (Image: AI generated)

Could 1929 happen again? Andrew Ross Sorkin’s gripping account of the time Wall Street collapsed

December 23, 2025 2:44 pm

In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the panic of the days the American economy broke. Leaves you wondering -- what is today’s AI and crypto boom really built on?

In July-September, when the Indian economy grew by an unexpected 8.2 per cent in real terms, ‘discrepancies’ amounted to Rs 1.63 lakh crore, or 3.3 per cent of GDP.

New GDP series to eliminate ‘discrepancies’ component; full back series by Feb 2027

December 16, 2025 7:45 pm

The statistics ministry is in the process of revising India’s GDP data, with the new series to have 2022-23 as the base year and several changes in how the data is calculated.

Indians expect to have more money to spend in 2026, shows Ipsos report

December 10, 2025 10:13 pm

Explaining the factors driving this optimism, Suresh Ramalingam, CEO, Ipsos India, explains how India's economic trajectory plays a key role in influencing public perception.

Sectorally, a sizeable jump of around 9 per cent in manufacturing and services explains the stellar performance. But this was aided by a low base, sub one per cent deflator, frontloading of export orders to avoid tariffs and stockpiling for the festive season and GST rate cuts.

Schrodinger’s economy: Rising and slowing at the same time

December 01, 2025 11:48 am

In absolute terms, nominal GDP has shrunk during the quarter, and hence the numerator, that is, the deficit percentage, automatically gets bigger, putting the government's budget targets under strain

GDP growth is robust, GST cuts and US tariffs will shape momentum

December 01, 2025 7:09 am

With inflation under control, the MPC’s views on growth should determine whether it opts to cut rates or not

However, export weakness, trade uncertainties with the US and a slowdown in government spending could cool momentum in the second half.

‘Too hot to ignore’: Economists upgrade FY26 GDP growth forecasts to 7.4% after Q2 data

November 30, 2025 10:00 pm

While growth forecasts are being made with the current numbers in mind, the next quarterly number for October-December will be as per a revamped GDP series.

Economists expect moderate growth compared to the previous quarter’s performance.

India’s Q2 GDP growth beats expectations again, rises 8.2% on manufacturing, financial services uptick

November 29, 2025 2:11 am

India Q2 GDP Growth Data July-September 2025: Strong consumer spending after GST cut spurs growth in face of global uncertainties.

Lower taxes spur buying, but jobs and incomes will have to grow

November 13, 2025 7:25 am

The big saviour for India is its services exports, which have been recording healthy growth, even in midst of all the global turmoil.

GDP VIDEOS

‘Think of it the other way, not about govt raiding RBI, but how RBI could have behaved differently’

June 22, 2020 6:07 pm

In this edition of the Idea Exchange, Former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian talks about demonitisation, defends GST, explains the reasons why growth has not been robust and reflects back on his tenure as Chief Economic Adviser of India.

Post-demonetisation, GDP figures dip to 6.1 pc

June 22, 2020 7:01 pm

'Railways in crisis going from bad to worse': Dinesh Trivedi

February 25, 2016 6:55 am

New Delhi, Feb 25 (ANI): Former railways minister Dinesh Trivedi wished Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu all the best for the upcoming Railways Budget. He said he was little worried about the railways because railways is a basic system anywhere in the world, which adds to half percent to the GDP. If the railways doesn’t do well, you cannot contain even your food inflation.