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High frequency indicators for December suggest continued buoyancy in growth impulses: RBI

January 22, 2026 9:54 am

Rural demand indicators regained momentum with retail automobile sales recording broad-based growth across categories.

After recovery optimism, early Q3 results point to headwinds

January 21, 2026 6:06 am

Index bellwethers, Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank have also posted lower-than-expected earnings numbers.

‘Better earnings expected in FY27; US tariff cloud remains’

Fitch Ratings: 'Indian earnings likely to improve in FY27, but US tariff cloud remains'

January 21, 2026 3:56 am

Higher revenues and improved earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) margins are expected to offset the high capital expenditure of the companies covered by Fitch Ratings, its analysts said in a note.

Impact of tariffs relative to factors like AI would be smaller rather than larger: Richard Lesser, BCG Chair

Richard Lesser at Idea Exchange: ‘It’s in India’s interest to be an innovator in the green economy space, China is already winning’

January 19, 2026 8:41 am

Rich Lesser, Global Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, is a leading voice on global strategy, leadership and geopolitics. During his tenure as CEO, he created new units for BCG’s digital business building, advanced analytics, machine learning and AI capabilities.

To become a developed economy, four reforms

To become a developed economy by 2047, four reforms for India

January 15, 2026 12:02 pm

India’s growth ambition is achievable if financing shifts from a focus on quantity to an emphasis on quality. Rebuilding domestic savings, shifting long-term financing toward markets, improving capital efficiency, and leveraging startups are parallel and mutually reinforcing priorities

India’s greatest gains may lie not in competing at the frontier but in deploying AI across agriculture, logistics, health, and public services. India’s research spending is modest at around 0.65 per cent of GDP.

On economic front, India's task ahead: Embracing creative destruction, managing its consequences

January 12, 2026 2:41 pm

Achieving high-income status would require sustaining 8 per cent real growth for two decades in a sustainable, employment generating manner

There are signs of a pick-up in FDI with global tech majors announcing big investment plans for India.

At year’s end, robust growth, signs that economy weathered the storms

December 29, 2025 12:41 pm

We expect GDP growth of 6.7 per cent and inflation at 5 per cent, largely driven by the low base effect, in fiscal 2027

Best of Both Sides | Economy is looking up. So, why rate cuts?

December 05, 2025 8:27 am

Liquidity in the system is optimal and supportive of growth. The healthy pick up in credit off take is evident. Credit growth from the larger ecosystem, including NBFCs and private credit, looks robust as deal volumes suggest across India Inc. where a wave of M&A activities is indicative of renewed interest in capturing markets and mindsets of consumers.

Best of Both Sides | Surjit Bhalla writes: On economy, India’s leaders are in a comfort zone — they need a jolt

December 05, 2025 8:27 am

The leaders are stuck in a deep comfort zone, reminiscent of Nehru’s luxury position post-independence. Or at the beginning of UPA-II, post an impressive first UPA term. Comfort kills the hunger for risk and change and perpetuates the stranglehold of the Deep State, that is, senior IAS officials managing the economy at the direction of the oligarchs. Look at FDI for clues about the angst. Unless policies change, the promise of Viksit Bharat is likely to go the way of the unexpected 2024 political loss

Govt panel working on new SEZ norms for exporters to access domestic market

November 06, 2025 4:58 am

This comes after multiple units in the SEZs, particularly those which entirely cater to the US market, have written to the Commerce Ministry seeking that they be de-notified due to sudden tariff pressure that has left exports uncompetitive in the US market.