P Vaidyanathan Iyer

After 21-year old Burhan Wani was killed by security forces, thousands thronged the streets in protest, pelted stones, snatched weapons of police, overturned and burnt their vehicles, and damaged property of security forces.

Won’t stand up for them tomorrow, says NC Vice president, on Opposition ‘betrayal’ over Centre’s August 5 move

In his first interview to The Indian Express since the abrogation of the special status of Jammu & Kashmir and his release from detention, Omar Abdullah speaks about a range of issues, from the Gupkar Declaration to “disappointment” by the reaction of India’s political leaders post August 5, 2019, to the future as he sees it.

Media policy will be ‘re-checked’, Information Dept can’t decide what content is fake, anti-national, says Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu

The ongoing crisis opens a window for New Delhi to reset relations with China. New Delhi’s trade policy needs to be alive to the imperative of higher growth, which can be achieved only through more, not less, globalisation.

Banning 59 mobile apps that have Chinese overhang is both a statement of intent and a strong signal. This may not hurt India given the alternatives in the app space but for China, the Indian app market is growing and valuable.

In this E-Xplained held a few weeks before he quit as Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Rathin Roy, ex-member of PM’s Economic Advisory Council, discusses challenges and options in a likely recessionary year.

In this E-Xplained event on Zoom, Manish Sabharwal, chairman & co-founder of the staffing and human capital firm Teamlease Services, and Director, RBI Central Board, discusses lockdown, unlockdown and jobs.

While China may not be a big investor in the traditional sense, and business relations are viewed more in terms of the trade deficit that India suffers, it is the new economy and start-up space where China has increased its influence.

Uday Kotak said that there is an opportunity to rebalance rural and urban and that the state needs to work towards the aspect of providing a social security net to not only migrants but also businesses across the board.

Indeed, addressing the CII annual session Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cited ACs as a priority sector, besides furniture, leather and footwear, for the government’s Make in India push to generate jobs.

The survey was conducted after the latest round of easing, and the respondents included large companies, regional trade bodies, and also some small and medium enterprises across the manufacturing and services sectors.

In this edition of E-Xplained before a country-wide Zoom audience last week, Nilesh Shah discussed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy, and ways to contain the damage.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says she is open to deficit monetisation, won't hazard a guess on where growth is headed.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says all suggestions were heard till the level of the Prime Minister before the package was finalised.

In her fifth and final tranche of the AtmaNirbhar package announced on Sunday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated a chunk of the Centre’s fiscal relief — Rs 40,000 crore or 0.2 per cent of GDP — as additional allocation to MGNREGA over and above the Budget Estimate of Rs 61,500 crore.

Covid-19 India Economic Package: Much of the May 12 Atmanirbhar package of Prime Minister Narendra Modi totaling Rs 20 lakh crore and elaborated over the last five days by Sitharaman has been liquidity driven, with little burden on the exchequer.

The government’s skin in the game is limited to credit guarantees. For loans to MSMEs, it amounts to guarantees on credit worth Rs 3 lakh crore on collateral free loans.

Message still hunker down and tide over, additional fiscal outgo this year may not be more than Rs 4.2 lakh crore.

If that happens, it won’t be unique to India — the IMF expects the Covid pandemic to severely impact growth across regions in its latest World Economic Outlook. It expects the US economy to shrink 5.9 per cent and the global economy to decelerate 3 per cent.

As far as the monetary policy is concerned, the RBI did what it could. But what were the expectations of the MPC members from the government?

While most states have written letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking that the Centre clear their pending dues, they are likely to press these demands at a video conference he has scheduled on Thursday.

He talks about the priorities, pain points, and fiscal needs of what he calls a “warlike economy”.

In an interview to P Vaidyanathan Iyer, Director at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy Rathin Roy talks about the priorities, pain points, and fiscal needs of what he calls a "warlike economy".