Jayanth Varma, the dissenting member of the Reserve Bank of India's policy committee, argued that high interest rates impede investments an...

Shashanka Bhide, an external member of the monetary policy panel, has said that India’s central bank should not rush to ease rates until it...

External MPC member Jayanth R Varma dissented on the resolution that said the panel would remain focused on withdrawal of accommodation whi...

As per the minutes, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said while high inflation continues to be the major concern, revival of economic activity ...

The Reserve Bank raised the benchmark policy repo rate, the rate at which it lends to banks by 50 basis points to 4.9 percent in its June p...

"Members acknowledged that core inflation remains elevated and sticky. In this milieu, we need to be eagle-eyed for the pass-through of pro...

The MPC kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 4.0 per cent. The reverse repo rate too was maintained at 3.35 per cent.

For much of its relatively short history, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has been placid. That seemed to have changed this month.

Das’ and the current MPC’s tenure has been bogged down by one crisis after another. In February 2019, when Das took over the reins, India w...

“Active and timely supply-side policy measures with regard to petrol and diesel, edible oil and pulses, among others, would be critical to ...

Even as central bank has lowered key policy repo rates by 140 bps (basis points, one bps is 0.01 %)), these rates have transmitted only on ...

Shashank Bhide is currently a senior advisor at the New Delhi-based think tank National Council for Applied Economic Research, while Goyal ...

India’s fiscal responsibility law will turn 10 this year. It’s been a period of missed deadlines with a dash of creative accounting thrown ...

Sharp contrasts in economic data are not only confusing policymakers , but also businesses, which are increasingly relying on in-house data...

The growth number for the first half of FY11 will be better than the second half as it will be calculated on last year’s low base, but the ...

Despite the economic slowdown and concerns over price rise, almost half the nation is happy with the budget, says the ET-Hansa Research Pos...

Inflation touched a 16-month low of 3.79% for the week ended August 25, way below the central bank’s projection of around 5% for the curren...