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Russia-Ukraine war may expose 42% India firms to significant risks: Moody's

The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine is impacting companies in Asia Pacific

Raising policy rates is not anti-national, RBI will have to do it: Rajan

Inflation is up in India. At some point, the RBI will have to raise rates, like the rest of the world is doing, Rajan said

With global finances at risk, can India avoid a repeat of the 1991 crisis?

India may have done well by keeping commercial bank lending to the government within manageable limits, but RBI has been lending more to the government, which means it has been printing more notes

Centre's fertiliser subsidy bill in FY23 may shoot up to Rs 2.3 trillion

According to trade and industry sources, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus account for almost 20 per cent of phosphoric acid imported into India

Statsguru: IMF to World Bank, six charts explain growth forecast revisions

Business Standard guides you through the numbers you need to know to make sense of the headlines

Missing inflation mandate is a possibility: RBI's MPC member Jayanth Varma

'The markets should not assume we will guide them, because the data is coming without warning', said Varma

MPC panel to get a new face: Rajiv Ranjan likely to replace Mridul Saggar

Rajiv Ranjan likely to replace Mridul Saggar in rate-setting panel

As NITI vice-chairperson, Suman Bery will now be expected to guide policy

Bery will replace incumbent Rajiv Kumar as Niti Aayog vice-chairperson from the next month

Bollywood economics

Given the significance of music in Hindi films, it is not surprising that filmmakers chose to milk it for ideological reasons

India must boost credit, labour to raise growth potential, says IMF

"We had lost two years of growth" because of the pandemic, Choueiri said in a separate interview Friday with Bloomberg Television's Kathleen Hays. "There is still catch up growth happening in India."

India's high growth rate positive news for world: IMF Managing Director

A high growth rate for India is positive news for the world, IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva has said.

Need for coordinated action among nations to aid post-Covid recovery: FM

This is also needed to build resilience to future shocks: Sitharaman

Nobody will be hungry in India if it becomes $30 tn economy by 2050: Adani

Industrialist Gautam Adani has said if the country becomes a $30-trillion economy as projected by 2050, it can also be home to a nation wherein no one will go to bed on empty stomach

Covid-19 pandemic & Russia-Ukraine war: Black swans in India's gas economy

The war in Ukraine is upending the Modi government's efforts to make the creation of natural gas infrastructure and access a critical component of its economic programme

IMF urges India to prioritise food security, expand transfers to vulnerable

The International Monetary Fund has urged India to prioritise food security and expand transfers to the vulnerable in the wake of the global economic crisis

Top headlines: Action to aid post-Covid recovery, Tatas to offer ESOPs

Business Standard brings you top headlines of the day

Record number of companies registered in FY22 despite Covid

Showing resilience India has registered 1.67 lakh companies in the financial year 2021-22 (April-March), according to a report by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)

PM Gati Shakti crucial for India to become $5-trn economy: Gadkari

The PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (NMP), is important for achieving the prime minister's dream of making India a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024-25, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday

BS Number Wise: Indian states are living dangerously on subsidies

Their tax revenues can't keep up with their largesse: it's a policy that risks putting them in economic peril

Should purchasing power parity of $3.2 be made India's formal poverty line?

Experts have some reservations about the methodology used to arrive at the number, and that the poverty figures under the existing PPP of $1.9 per person per day have been understated