Many shortcomings of the new aviation policy

Flying trouble

Business Standard

New rules pose grave environmental dangers

Wetland woes

Centre must now work towards a flawless GST

Get it right

It faces new challenges after acquiring LinkedIn

Microsoft's latest buy

Borrowers' cash flow holds key to tackling stressed assets

RBI's new experiment

Food safety authority's puzzling regulations

Dangerous bottled water

The provisional estimates of national income for the year 2015-16, and the quarterly estimates of gross domestic product or GDP for the fourth quarter of that year - from January to March - were released on Tuesday by the Central Statistics Office of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation. The whole year's statistic for economic growth is at 7.6 per cent, the same as was estimated in the advance numbers released in February. However, the headline-grabbing number is the estimate for GDP growth at constant 2011-12 prices for the final quarter of 2015-16, which is 7.9 per cent. Almost eight per cent growth cements India's position as the fastest-growing large economy in the world. Notably, estimates for GDP growth in the previous three quarters have been revised slightly downward, so anything less than 7.9 per cent in the third quarter would have meant that India would have fallen short of the advance estimates of GDP growth for the full year, issued in February. Seen o

Signs of recovery

Why are cricket broadcasts of "national importance"?

Not cricket

Principles that should underlie FRBM redesign

Fiscal prudence

Pharmaceuticals department has achieved little

Only a price controller

Two years in, major reforms seem off the table

Avoiding reform

India Inc., govt must support working women

Creche course

India must end indiscriminate use of antibiotics

Drug resistance crisis

Time to review policy on single-brand retail restrictions

Less discretion

India's policy makers will need to respond to US Fed

A bumpy ride?

Welcome decision to rescind order on GM seeds royalty

Royalty and risk

Water conservation has become a necessity

Guarding each drop

India must deepen its economic, strategic ties with Iran

The emergence of Iran

Isro's space plans need a big resources push

The shuttle success

Questions on peace arise from death of Taliban head

Drone war escalates

Apple woos India, govt must make the right moves

Mr Cook's voyage

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