Aanchal Magazine is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, serving as a leading voice on the macroeconomy and fiscal policy. With over 13 years of newsroom experience, she is recognized for her ability to decode complex economic data and government policy for a wider audience....Read More
Aanchal Magazine is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, serving as a leading voice on the macroeconomy and fiscal policy. With over 13 years of newsroom experience, she is recognized for her ability to decode complex economic data and government policy for a wider audience.
Expertise & Focus Areas: Magazine’s reporting is rooted in "fiscal arithmetic" and economic science. Her work provides critical insights into the financial health of the nation, focusing on:
Macroeconomic Policy: Detailed tracking of GDP growth, inflation trends, and central bank policy actions.
Fiscal Metrics: Analysis of taxation, revenue collection, and government spending.
Labour & Society: Reporting on labour trends and the intersection of economic policy with employment.
Her expertise lies in interpreting high-frequency economic indicators to explain the broader trajectory of the Indian economy.
Personal Interests: Beyond the world of finance and statistics, Aanchal maintains a deep personal interest in the history of her homeland, Kashmir. In her spare time, she reads extensively about the region's culture and traditions and works to map the complex journeys of displacement associated with it.
Jan 30, 2020 02:55 IST
Sen said the deficit’s understatement by at least 2 percentage points has resulted in the central...
Thu, Jan 30, 2020
Jan 24, 2020 05:29 IST
The Centre is also expected to miss on its target from disinvestment collections. In this year’s...
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
Jan 24, 2020 04:03 IST
As of now, the government does have a calender for release of data sets such as national accounts,...
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
Jan 09, 2020 04:30 IST
The tradition of deciding by consensus has been broken, and the Council could now see voting on...
Thu, Jan 09, 2020
Jan 08, 2020 04:56 IST
Manufacturing growth is seen slowing to 2.0 per cent in 2019-20 from 6.9 per cent last year, while...
Wed, Jan 08, 2020
Jan 08, 2020 03:05 IST
The committee, in its first meeting, did a stock taking exercise, taking note of the present...
Wed, Jan 08, 2020
Jan 04, 2020 04:36 IST
It is estimated that a $10-per-barrel increase in the price of oil would negatively impact...
Sat, Jan 04, 2020
Jan 02, 2020 04:20 IST
A rise for the second month in a row in GST collections indicates improvement in revenue growth and...
Thu, Jan 02, 2020
Jan 02, 2020 00:14 IST
Barring four states/Union Territories, rest 33 states/UTs have posted a double-digit growth in...
Thu, Jan 02, 2020
Jan 01, 2020 04:20 IST
There have been calls for the government to lead the revival through aggressive spending. The...
Wed, Jan 01, 2020
Dec 28, 2019 05:22 IST
The new Standing Committee on Economic Statistics, with 10 non-official members and 16 official...
Sat, Dec 28, 2019
Dec 26, 2019 04:06 IST
“With inflation hovering around 4-5 per cent and India’s growth expected to be 5-6 per cent, it...
Thu, Dec 26, 2019
Dec 21, 2019 06:01 IST
Stating that the goal of $5 trillion is very good, he said the government needs to figure out with...
Sat, Dec 21, 2019
Dec 21, 2019 05:53 IST
Most of the prominent India Inc leaders excused themselves from talking on the ongoing protests. A...
Sat, Dec 21, 2019
Dec 20, 2019 01:36 IST
NSC will have a Chairperson, five whole time members along with Deputy Governor, RBI, Chief...
Fri, Dec 20, 2019
Dec 13, 2019 01:00 IST
The stage appears to be set for flipping a fundamental tenet of taxation — that of a direct tax,...
Fri, Dec 13, 2019
Dec 12, 2019 03:00 IST
The Council meeting of December 18, coming in the backdrop of the Centre’s struggles on the...
Thu, Dec 12, 2019
Dec 10, 2019 01:10 IST
GST authorities will now look into the zone-wise details of the discrepancies and approach the...
Tue, Dec 10, 2019
Dec 06, 2019 04:50 IST
If an upward revision in GST levies is resorted to by the Council to shore up revenues, it would be...
Fri, Dec 06, 2019
Dec 05, 2019 04:54 IST
The meeting with Sitharaman comes days after the GST Council informed states that the GST and...
Thu, Dec 05, 2019
Dec 04, 2019 04:35 IST
The GST Council is a Constitutional body chaired by the Union Finance Minister and comprises the...
Wed, Dec 04, 2019
Nov 30, 2019 04:23 IST
This is the lowest quarterly growth rate in the five-and-half years of the Narendra Modi-led NDA...
Sat, Nov 30, 2019
Nov 30, 2019 01:39 IST
Government expenditure was the key component supporting GDP growth, rising by 15.6 per cent in...
Sat, Nov 30, 2019
Nov 29, 2019 18:41 IST
At 4.5 per cent, the GDP growth rate is much lower than 5.3 per cent projected for July-September...
Sat, Nov 30, 2019
Nov 24, 2019 01:00 IST
The urban unemployment rate, based on current weekly status, stood at 9.9 per cent in...
Sun, Nov 24, 2019