Banks have opened over 35 crore basic bank accounts under the Jan Dhan Yojana scheme. These accounts have zero balance requirements and ban...

“We observed that there is both statistically significant and economically meaningful drop in consumption of intoxicants such as alcohol an...

A strong majority, 81%, said India’s global standing had improved while 64% approved of the manner in which the government has dealt with P...

Several economic theories predict that financial inclusion programmes can directly benefit lower income households at the micro level throu...

He also highlighted various policy initiative taken by the government to prevent tax evasion and deal with menace of black money.

I-T dept has conducted at least 70 raids in the last 50 days in jewellery shops, transport companies, entry operators' companies, cooperati...

In 2015, he appeared your regular risk-averse, status-quoist politician, out to please all. 2016 saw him as a man not afraid to shock the s...

The Opposition’s movement focuses on people’s trouble, not on roll back for protecting the sleaze money some party gathered.

By and large, the verdict is very favourable. All the steps that have been taken. I am glad that we have a first majority government after ...

FM Jaitley said inflation has been brought under control in the past one year but global economy and agrarian situation pose challenge to t...

The three-day BJP national executive meeting next week in Bengaluru will focus on projecting a "pro-farmer, pro-poor" image of the Narendra...

The agency attributes this to the coming back of real returns for savers and consumers, even though on a marginal scale, following the stee...

While India's macro vulnerability has reduced over the last two yrs, it is still higher than the mean of its peer nations in the BBB rating...

RBI in its bi-monthly review of the monetary policy on February 3 kept policy rate unchanged at 7.75%.

"India has more poor people than the entire continent of Africa. We have to bring poverty down. We need to grow at 10 or 10 plus %," he add...

Kejriwal was referring to Modi's speech yesterday in which he had spoken of the government's move to transfer LPG subsidy directly to consu...

Consumer sentiment had picked up in the run up to the general election earlier in the year, but has failed to maintain the momentum.