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Services PMI contracts to four-year low in August

Transport and storage companies register the fastest contraction; this is the first time since March 2009 that services and manufacturing PMI contracted in the same month

Situation not comparable with 2008-09 crisis: T C A anant

Interview with Chief Statistician

Manufacturing activity shrinks for first time in over 4 years

PMI dips to 48.5, lowest no in four-and-a-half-years, on decline in new orders

Silver lining: India's GDP and size of economy expand in Q1, FY'14

GDP in dollar terms rose 0.85% in the first quarter of 2013-14 against massive 12.8% contraction in the corresponding period of 2012-13

Industry, investments 'may not improve before Q3'

C Rangarajan, chairman, PMEAC, said industry would start doing better only from the second half of the year

GDP preview: growth likely to be sub-5%

Some relief expected on the agricultural front as the country had witnessed good rains this quarter

GDP to be real tracker of current economic situation: Debopam Chaudhuri

Interview with Vice-president-Research, ZyFin

Battered rupee hits a 100 in Google search

Search value index at 100 in August, which represents peak

Rupee impact: India could soon see 6%-plus inflation

Softening of global commodity prices might not help much

More 'cuts' to the bleeding economy

Loss of foodgrains, poor back-end infra are major challenges

Rs 236 crore worth of foodgrains lost in Q1

Crime against women rise in 2/3rd of states in 2012

Country saw rise in rate of registered crime cases against women in 2012 in 23 out of 35 states, UTs

Experts see GDP growth revival from second half of FY14, not 2nd quarter

Unless supported by investment, any spark of a recovery could be temporary, hint economists

Government sets up Tax Administration Reform Commission

Committee will seek to review application of tax policies, tax laws, submit periodic reports to make tax system better

Indian economy to grow at 4.5% in Q1: Moody's Analytics

The GDP numbers will be released on Friday. Earlier, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had also said that the first quarter GDP growth would remain more or less flat

Illegal mining activities up 4.2% in FY13

Experts believe the surge in illegal mining is due to vested interests of politicians

Illegal mining activites rose 4.2% in 2012-13

Modi's government highest fine collector among all the states

Textile exports seen rising

A spark of revival has already been witnessed in Q1 2014, could lead to a 5-10% revival in exports

Rents soaring in Andaman & Nicobar Islands: NSSO

Mega projects continue to face delays, says MoSPI

Almost half of such projects continue to face delays