Reserve Bank confronts shrinking policy space as rupee rout leaves few good options
3 Dec 2025 10:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India walks into this week’s monetary policy meeting with its manoeuvring room dramatically reduced, boxed in by a...
Panel warns data credibility at risk, flags gaps in statistical system
3 Dec 2025 1:15 AM ISTNew Delhi: Parliament has issued one of its starkest warnings yet on the credibility of the country’s official statistics, saying persistent...
Drug prices are a scandal, and multinational pharma is only part of the problem
2 Dec 2025 1:17 AM ISTFor a country celebrated as the pharmacy of the world, India remains shockingly hostile to its own patients. Walk into any chemist shop, pick up a...
India’s IPO Boom Is Dazzling — But What Exactly Are We Building?
30 Nov 2025 12:54 AM ISTNew Delhi: India loves a good boom. And few booms excite policymakers, investors and television anchors quite like an IPO wave. It signals confidence,...
India’s 7.8% growth meets its harshest test
30 Aug 2025 11:31 PM ISTNew Delhi: India’s economy has once again confounded expectations. In the first quarter of FY26, gross domestic product expanded by 7.8 per cent...
India cannot afford to sleepwalk through another oil shock
20 Jun 2025 11:53 PM ISTNew Delhi: As another geopolitical storm brews in the Middle East—this time between Israel and Iran—India finds itself yet again on the edge of an...
Reserve Bank’s mixed signals: Rate cut & stance shift stir policy confusion
7 Jun 2025 12:31 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Friday delivered a 50 basis point cut in the policy repo rate to 5.50 per...
From Fields to Finance: How the Monsoon Is Shaping RBI’s Policy Path
5 Jun 2025 11:59 PM ISTNew Dehi: As the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) concludes its crucial three-day meeting on Thursday, a strong consensus...
