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.
Feb 13, 2018 01:30 IST
The study indicates that a short-term liquidity shock impacted firms in the export sector, with the...
Tue, Feb 13, 2018
Feb 06, 2018 12:42 IST
"The government may look to do something to protect small domestic investors if equity markets...
Tue, Feb 06, 2018
Feb 06, 2018 06:25 IST
The Budget announcement to hike duty on two broad categories of goods is one among several such...
Tue, Feb 06, 2018
Feb 05, 2018 14:48 IST
Hasmukh Adhia said that the advance corporate tax data shows that balance sheets of companies in...
Mon, Feb 05, 2018
Feb 03, 2018 04:01 IST
Hasmukh Adhia said, "In GST, we will have to bring an e-way bill as well as the matching of...
Sat, Feb 03, 2018
Feb 03, 2018 03:41 IST
DEA Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said the average fiscal deficit between 2009 and 2014 was 5.5...
Sat, Feb 03, 2018
Feb 02, 2018 05:56 IST
On Thursday, unveiling the Union Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley reinforced this political...
Fri, Feb 02, 2018
Feb 02, 2018 03:08 IST
Customs duty up on 46 items to protect domestic industry, set to fetch Rs 6,000 crore per...
Fri, Feb 02, 2018
Feb 02, 2018 03:05 IST
Union Budget 2018: Govt estimates GST revenue at `4.45 lakh crore for 2017-18, `7.44 lakh crore for...
Fri, Feb 02, 2018
Feb 02, 2018 02:04 IST
The government said that by amending the Income-tax Act, a “team-based assessment with dynamic...
Fri, Feb 02, 2018
Feb 02, 2018 01:50 IST
Union Budget 2018: Growth rate of govt expenditure in 2018-19 is also lower than the 12.3% seen in...
Fri, Feb 02, 2018
Jan 28, 2018 02:26 IST
Centre also expected to highlight employment generation through roads, railways and highways...
Sun, Jan 28, 2018
Jan 26, 2018 05:34 IST
Total collections under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in November had slipped for the second...
Fri, Jan 26, 2018
Jan 23, 2018 04:41 IST
A jurisdiction-free assessment implies that a taxpayer in Delhi, for instance, could be assessed by...
Tue, Jan 23, 2018
Jan 19, 2018 01:20 IST
Council gives in-principle approval for about 40-50 ‘minor’ legal changes in GST-related...
Fri, Jan 19, 2018
Jan 18, 2018 13:28 IST
GST Council meet: A range of legal amendments required in the GST-related laws will be discussed,...
Thu, Jan 18, 2018
Jan 18, 2018 05:09 IST
The government has indicated that it is likely to incur more expenditure on agriculture and related...
Thu, Jan 18, 2018
Jan 18, 2018 01:21 IST
The e-way bill system, now being tried out by 10 states, becomes mandatory from February 1. What is...
Thu, Jan 18, 2018
Jan 15, 2018 01:50 IST
Higher rate has adversely impacted the lottery business in many...
Mon, Jan 15, 2018
Jan 11, 2018 05:38 IST
The 10-member committee has also recommended broadening of certain categories for availment of...
Thu, Jan 11, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 05:48 IST
Amid falling revenues, the low rate of collections under the composition scheme in the first...
Thu, Jan 18, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 00:58 IST
Only one action recorded by Central authorities in Punjab, rest taken by state...
Wed, Jan 10, 2018
Jan 09, 2018 04:52 IST
The system offers the technological framework to track intra-state as well as inter-state movement...
Tue, Jan 09, 2018
Jan 08, 2018 04:05 IST
Consultations are on with states to bring them on board for part-financing the scheme, which could...
Mon, Jan 08, 2018
Jan 06, 2018 04:00 IST
An estimate of 6.5 per cent GDP growth rate for the full year implies estimation of 7 per cent...
Sat, Jan 06, 2018