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Business confidence falls for second straight quarter, says NCAER survey

Earlier, it was at 142.9 in the fourth quarter of 2021-22. It was 117.4 in the corresponding quarter last year

Large corporates request RBI for customers' UPI data, says Dy Guv Sankar

Large corporates, including fintech, have requested the RBI on how they could access the data from UPI

Why Digital Rupee is a distraction and India ought to go slow on it

A digital currency is more of a fashionable trend and trends are for social media influencers, not governments

The slowdown in 2019-20 was neither anomalous, nor inexplicable

It is important to remember that growth had been slowing for five consecutive quarters before 2019-20

Business confidence buoyant in Q3 FY22, says economic think-tank NCAER

The business confidence has remained buoyant in the third quarter of the current financial year, said economic think-tank NCAER.

Top Headlines: Paytm ups IPO size to Rs 18,300 cr, no nod for Covaxin yet

Business Standard brings you the top headlines at this hour

Biz sentiment hit two-year high in Q2 as Covid second wave eased off: NCAER

Sentiments improved sequentially in Q2FY22 with regard to production, domestic sales, exports, new orders, imports of raw materials, and pre-tax profits

India expected to grow 10% during current fiscal: NCAER Director General

The economy is expected to grow around 10% during the current financial year on the likelihood of fewer Covid-linked supply disruptions and buoyancy in the global economy, said NCAER's Poonam Gupta

No FTA with nations you have armed conflict with: Fin secy on RCEP decision

Somanathan said that a dose of carefully calibrated tariff protection for select sectors showing potential may be desirable

Poonam Gupta to head NCAER as its first woman director general

Succeeds Shekhar Shah who has led NCAER since 2011 and will complete his second five year term in early May

MP, West Bengal lead India's land record digitisation drive: NCAER study

Ladakh, J&K, Sikkim and a few other North-Eastern states have a long way forward

Demand-supply gap in NPS; needs to be more flexible for subscribers: NCAER

Even as NPS has a robust architecture, there is a gap between demand and supply side in the Indian pensions market, NCAER said in a release on Thursday, citing the key takeaways from the discussion

NCAER's business confidence index rises 41.1% in September quarter

Indicating signs of improvement, think-tank NCAER on Monday said its Business Confidence Index (BCI) rose 41.1 per cent in the July-September 2020 period

Remembering Subir Gokarn: The big-frame economist who loved the little things

While his ability to connect the dots is well-known, CRISIL Chief Economist Dharmakirti Joshi recounts Gokarn's love for food and travel, besides other lesser known facets of the man

NCAER sees GDP shrinking by 12.6% in FY21, falling in three remaining qtrs

All the remaining three quarters of 2020-21 were projected to witness a fall in the gross domestic product (GDP), NCAER said

Business Confidence Index falls 40% in June quarter: NCAER survey

It fell 62 per cent in the June 2020 quarter on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, according to a survey by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)

Over a quarter of homes in UP, Odisha had zero income under lockdown: NCAER

There was change in occupation profile during lockdown; the proportion of salaried persons fell sharply in UP

Over 95% respondents have started wearing mask, covering face: NCAER survey

More than 95% people have started wearing masks or covering nose and mouth, but the percentage of people following other precautions to prevent coronavirus spread is still low, shows an NCAER survey

Monetisation of govt's fiscal deficit by RBI is tricky, say economists

The RBI is kept out of directly monetising the government's fiscal deficit because it may give rise to unproductive spendings.

NCAER pegs GDP growth at 4.9% in 2019-20, lower than NSO estimates

The NSO as well as the RBI has projected the GDP growth rate at 5 per cent for the current fiscal