The Indian banking sector is witnessing an Information Technology (IT) revolution and is marching towards digitalisation. The banking system has become easier with technological assistance. Digital banking is one of those verticals that has made the sector faster with access to the internet and offe...
The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2021 has been published recently. It is conducted by the National Statistical Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation of the Government of India. The survey covers the period between July 2020 to June 2021. One of the important tak...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided on August 6, 2021 to maintain its policy rate in the light of its accommodative stance, unchanged at 4% adopted since August 12, 2020. That was when RBI decided to cut the rate to boost economic activities following th...
...... continued from previous issueAs the world experiences one climate disaster after another, alongside the health and socio-economic fallouts of the pandemic and other adverse developments, the push for sustainability in all spheres of business activity is coming from various quarters - fr...
After a tough first quarter, the Indian economy is finding demand back on the back of a strong level of activities in construction related business, consumer durables like air-conditioners, refrigerators and other electrical gadgets and rural segments of the fast-moving consumer goods. Even do...
COMPANY PROFILE Central Depository Services (India) Ltd (CDSL) is the first listed Indian central securities depository based in Mumbai. The company was initially promoted by the BSE Ltd., which thereafter divested its stake to some top banks of the country. CDSL received the certif...
There are some favourable signs of economic recovery in the Indian economy. The first one is the rate of growth of core sector outputs. The core industry output in last May, compared to the same month of FY 2020, has risen by 16.8%. The core sectors of the Indian economy include coal, cr...
The creation of special economic zones (SEZs) is key towards providing opportunities to business and people in the north-eastern state of Manipur which is fast emerging as a state with local initiatives going hand in hand with national and global efforts - Union Minister of State (Independent ...
Early last month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced its monetary policy decision at the end of the bi-monthly meeting of the six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The expectations were that RBI would be focused on boosting growth with a downward revision in its benchmark policy i...
There are many important purposes of macroeconomics. But the foremost of these is attaining full employment. Full employment does not only mean full-employment of labour - it also includes full utilisation of available resources. The Indian economy has been under stress for quite some time. Ev...