Economy

Social media, the theatre of all things absurd and frivolous, has been unusually active over the last few days. Ever since the number 20 lakh crore hit the headlines and the nation's…

Bhubaneswar: Partial resumption of commercial establishments and government offices, opening up of liquor shops and air space, starting trains - are all these measures a pointer that there…

Balasore: Declared a COVID-19 Red Zone by the Centre, the going has been tough for Balasore district since the current lockdown was extended till May 17. The district has reported 42…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held meetings with senior ministers to discuss a second stimulus package, especially for adversely-affected sectors amid the nationwide lockdown…

Finally, we have made it to the edge of the cliff where a new future awaits us. The world will finally have to evolve, to fit itself into a newly-designed costume, which we as humans so…

Washington: Keen to reopen the country but still not in a position to do so, a frustrated Donald Trump has said that the country was “attacked.” The COVID-19 global pandemic has killed…

The lockdown is 4 weeks old in Odisha and a few days shy in other states. A brief scorecard of the spread of the pandemic is in order. By end of March 24, the reported numbers of infected…

The retail inflation spiralled to 7.35 per cent in December 2019 from 5.54 per cent in a month's time. This spike has breached the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) upper-limit target (4 (+2).…

Economist Parakala Prabhakar, husband of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, said that the Indian government is "in denial mode" over the state of economy. In a column in the Hindu, he…

In a bid to boost the country's slowing economy, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of reforms on Saturday. She also gave assurance that industrial production was…