Banking & Finance

VP wants adequate credit for farmers The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu, has called for quality power supply, development of rural infrastructure including godowns, cold storage facilities, refrigerator vans among others to boost the agriculture sector. He also called for...

AI and Space Technology in water projects The World Bank has signed a US$450 million loan agreement to support a national programme to arrest depleting groundwater levels and strengthen groundwater institutions in India. The World Bank-supported Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY)...

Total retail-focused PE inflows touched US$970 million in 2019 - a 19% share of the total US$5 billion in overall Indian real estate, reveals research by ANAROCK Capital.

Though a rate cut would have been welcomed by the real estate sector as a sentiment-boosting factor, a meagre change in repo rates would have done little to significantly boost consumer sentiments, said Anuj Puri, Chairman of ANAROCK Property Consultants...

The Government notification on the treatment of third-party assets during insolvency proceedings of Financial Services Providers is to give a boost to securitisation transactions, according to ICRA Ltd.

The fact that the latest Union Budget gave no more than a cursory glance at real estate is a missed opportunity to build further on groundwork that the government has done of making the sector more organised and transparent.

The Economic Survey 2019-20 in Parliament on 31 Jan 2020 affirms that disinvestment improves firm performance and overall productivity and unlock their potential to create wealth.

With higher fiscal headroom to accommodate spending, it should be marginally positive for growth for India following the measures announced in the Budget 2020.

The Budget 2020 has failed to adequately address the challenges faced by the economy, says Nishith Desai Associates. Given the continuing economic slowdown and the current social unrest that the country is witnessing, there was a lot of hope from the...

The banking sector is reading positive notes from the 2020 Budget tabled in parliament on 1 Feb 2020 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.