V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India, has expressed confidence that India’s GDP will grow by 7% in the second half of the current financial year (FY). He noted that the 7.8% GDP growth recorded in the previous two quarters had already been anticipated.Acco...
The New Financial Reality of 2025The year 2025 has brought unanticipated shifts in global financial markets. Amid this volatility, gold has reasserted its dominance as a premier asset class, breaking free from traditional economic expectations. Unlike in past cycles, gold prices have shown sustained...
The Indian economy in 2025 continues to display remarkable resilience, driven by reorientation, reform, and robust fundamentals. Despite global challenges such as trade tensions and geopolitical uncertainty, India has sustained strong growth. This momentum has been powered by digital innovation, str...
Indians love gold. For many, it remains a safer and more dependable savings option than real estate, stocks, or bonds.According to the World Gold Council, Chinese consumers purchased 857 tonnes of gold in 2024, while Indians bought 803 tonnes. Over the past 15 years, these two countries to...
India’s festive ecommerce season has opened on a high note, with Flipkart and Amazon registering record traffic and sales during their flagship events — The Big Billion Days (TBBD) and The Great Indian Festival (GIF), respectively. Strong consumer sentiment, GST cuts, and rising participation fr...
On August 15, 2025, in his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced sweeping reforms in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) structure to be implemented by Diwali. He stressed the need to simplify GST and ease the burden on the common citizen. Following this, the GST Council, in ...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has introduced major reforms in the tax structure—changes many experts believe were long overdue. Since its rollout in 2017, India’s GST regime has faced criticism for being complex and inconsistent with global best practices. Ideally, GST should have one...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a review of the current framework for setting its policy interest rate—the REPO rate (repurchase rate for authorized securities from commercial banks and other financial institutions). The REPO serves as the central policy tool for regulating money sup...
There was a time when trading in the Indian capital market was highly fragmented, scattered across 21 regional stock exchanges operating in various tier-II cities along with the metropolitan centres. Volumes were small, participants were few, and institutional investments came largely from a handful...
At a time when punitive tariffs from the United States threaten to squeeze exports and dampen investments, India has chosen to shield its economy by revamping the tax structure to stimulate domestic demand.This is an unusual weapon to counter an external economic assault: providing cheaper goods for...
