Economy

Indian power sector to contribute to global energy growth India will be the single most important contributor to global energy growth up to 2040, for conventional as well as renewable power, said Paul Simons, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency...

Goyal on electricity demand in India Future of electricity in India rest on the pillars of affordability, sustainability and country’s energy security, said Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy. Speaking a conference...

India’s domestic equity markets were jittery on May 11, 2016, on news of a phased-out removal of capital gains tax exemption under the India-Mauritius treaty, to be effective March 2017 onwards, according to Singapore banking group, DBS. These amendments will...

Special Report: India’s Trade Negotiations: The Imperative of Flexibility By Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow and Research Lead (Trade and Economic Policy) at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS). India continues to be labeled ‘obstructive’ in its ongoing trade...

GIFT's Ajay Pandey Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. becomes the fourth bank to open its IFSC Banking Unit (IBU) at India’s first and only International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT). Kotak Mahindra Bank is one of...

India has entered the top-ten list in the 2016 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index. India jumped two places to rank number 9 in this year’s Index. The Index is a forward-looking analysis of how political, economic, and...

India should boldly venture beyond the “Make in India” initiative and strive to be a “Global Manufacturer” supported by economic reforms and strategic linkup with the world through trade agreements, Singapore’s Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has said. India...

Lacklustre investment and capital expenditure have been key missing pieces in India’s growth story. Gross capital formation fell four ticks in the last three years, to below 30% of GDP by December 2015. This pales in comparison to China’s investment...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it is the right time to come to India and even better through the sea route. “This is the right time to come to India. It is even better to come through the sea route....

India's corporate bond market will take between three to five years to develop given the huge financing demand from the infrastructure sector, Press Trust of India reported citing a senior Indian banker. As of now, the Indian corporate bond market...