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What makes warehouses hot property in India attracting billions of dollars

Warehouses accounted for about $3.4 billion, or 26%, of private equity real-estate investments between 2014 and 2017, according to Knight Frank LLP

Explained: Why farmers are angry in India's fastest-growing farm economy

India was swept by about a dozen major farm protests in 2018, with thousands of farmers travelling to Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai in the last week of November 2018 alone

Farmers, salaried are losers despite Modi govt's faster dash on GDP track

Average income grew slower than per capita gross domestic product in four out of the last five years

Subramanian explains why note ban had to be draconian for political success

The former chief economic adviser explains in his new book why vice became virtue when it concerned demonetisation

Modi to unveil policy to ease biggest hurdle for factories before LS polls

Under the new plan, a company need not purchase land or equipment but could lease them on long-contract basis helping lower costs and cut down time on setting up operations

G20: Modi discusses India's role in addressing climate change with Guterres

Narendra Modi, at present, is on a three-day visit to Argentina to attend the G20 summit

How Modi govt's natural gas plan is giving no relief to smog-choked cities

Modi, who won a United Nations environmental award in September for promoting solar power, has struggled to curtail pollution

IL&FS crisis: RBI allows NBFCs quicker turnaround time for loans

According to the revised norms, loans of original maturity of more than five years can be securitised after receiving the repayment of six-month instalments

Jaitley spars with Chidambaram over 'hatchet job' remark on GDP revision

Jaitley said the revised numbers were globally more comparable, as they took into account a far greater representation of the Indian economy

New GDP data not in sync with real economy; sectors grew faster under UPA

Tax buoyancy, both at the central and state level, was also greater during the term of the previous government

Microfinance industry may come up with Rs 8-bn pool of saleable securities

The pool will be bundled with a mix of small and big MFI portfolios across geographies, will be credit rated and sold to banks

Bombay HC seeks govt view on RBI plea against CIC's wilful defaulters order

Central bank contends it did not disclose names of wilful defaulters under home ministry's advice

J&J faulty hip implant row: Noose tightens around medical devices importers

DTAB passed a proposal to include a provision in the MDR for cancellation and suspension of import licence of the medical devices in case of noncompliance with the regulatory provisions

NBFC liquidity, not governance, to be focus of next RBI board meet

The RBI has so far maintained it doesn't view cash crunch as a systematic issue, which it feels is limited to a few housing finance companies

RBI to opt for a prolonged pause in rate moves: Barclays' Siddhartha Sanyal

We expect CPI to average 3.9% and 4.5% respectively during the first two quarters of 2019, again hefty 30-60 basis points lower than the MPC's current projections for those quarters

India's Q2 GDP data to be out on Friday: Here's what to expect

The range of GVA growth rate is 7.1 per cent to 7.4 per cent against 8 per cent in the first quarter

Demonetisation a draconian, monetary shock, says Arvind Subramanian

Says Reserve Bank holding excess capital to the tune of Rs 4.5-7 trillion which could be used to recapitalise public sector banks; sides with it on PCA

What exactly is a 'back series' of GDP and why it is important for economy?

The GDP always has a base year, which defines the composition of the economy in that year. As the composition changes, the base year needs to be revised regularly

Farm growth in UPA era better than 4 years of NDA even under new series

The data also shows that in 2010-11, just after one of the worst droughts, India clocked perhaps one of its best growth rates in agriculture at 8.8%

GDP back series data: New figures throw up a productivity puzzle

Gross fixed capital formation, which connotes investment in the economy, had touched a high of 35.8 per cent in 2007-08, declining thereafter to 28.5 per cent in 2017-18