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Top headlines: M&M's board rejig, Fitch lowers India GDP growth, and more

In a statement, the firm said Pawan Kumar Goenka has been re-appointed the managing director with additional responsibilities of CEO for a year

Economy needs real reforms push

Moves like direct tax reform and actual divestment will send out the right signals

Moody's cuts India's 2019 GDP growth forecast to 5.6% amid employment woes

It expects economic growth to pick up in 2020 and 2021 to 6.6% and 6.7% respectively

Economy resilient, no cause for apprehension on decline in GDP: Govt

Continuous liberalisation has led to an increase in inflows of foreign direct investment into the country.

Govt exploring new method for calculating GDP with changing weights

The weights assigned to various products and activities will keep updating but the base year will remain the same

Revival hopes help markets continue their winning run, absorb GDP shocker

While the GDP data is released with a two-month lag, markets always try to factor in future expectations

ADB trims India's FY20 growth forecast to 5.1%, cites consumption slowdown

ADB said growth should pick up to 6.5 per cent in the next fiscal year with supportive policies

Simplify I-T structure

That's the way to go for improving tax base, compliance

Could consumption really have fallen?

The leaked NSS consumption numbers have provoked a debate. While arguments by various sides are not really convincing there are some broad lessons

'Unprecedented', says Chidambaram on RBI's cut in FY20 GDP forecast to 5%

The RBI on Thursday kept repo rate unchanged at the current 5.15% level but revised GDP growth projection for the current financial year 2019-20 to 5%

Key takeaways from RBI's monetary policy meet

GDP growth forecast for FY20 has been revised downwards from 6.1 per cent in the October policy to 5 per cent

To revive economic growth, Nirmala Sitharaman should sidestep this trap

The key to boosting growth lies in boosting investments, not consumption

Dream targets: Modi govt needs to show greater purpose to meet macro goals

Targets like $5-trn GDP and 100% export growth by 2025, besides doubling of farm income and increasing the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25% by 2022, might prove a tall order, writes T N Ninan

Statistical optimism: Structural issues, base quirks, and Indian economy

It may be hard to square data with the revival being forecast, but economic soothsayers may well be right when they predict 5.8% growth for Q2, 6.4% for Q3 and 7.2% for Q4, T N Ninan explains why

Budget 2020: Govt to focus on tax incentives, private investments

Long-term capital gains tax could be abolished

As banks turn immune to monetary policy, QE may save the day for RBI

If the central bank views asset purchases as a way to influence the waning quantity of money, then it should act now. Doing so may well save the day

India will resume previous pace of growth, says CFA Institute CEO

India's economic issues are cyclical and not structural, and we believe India will resume its previous pace of economic growth in coming years, says Franklin

God save us from New India's novice economists: Congress' dig at BJP MP

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has no relevance and it should not be treated as 'Bible, Ramayan and Mahabharat'

GDP has no relevance, should not be treated as gospel truth: BJP MP

The debate in the Lower House mostly hovered around the GDP slipping to an over-six-year-low of 4.5 per cent in the July-September quarter

Crisil slashes India's FY20 growth to 5.1% over slump across sectors

Growth in the second half of 2019-20 will go up to 5.5 per cent, up from the 4.75 per cent in the first half, the agency said