India’s Trade Deficit Widens to $11.72 Billion in July
Staff Reporter / New Delhi – India’s trade deficit has widened significantly, reaching $11.72 billion in July 2025, a substantial increase from the $10.10 billion recorded in the same month…
Recent US Tariffs to Have Only Short-Term Impact on Indian Exports: CEA
AMN Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday assured that the recent US tariffs on Indian exports will likely have only a temporary effect, with the impact expected…
India’s Low Inflation Fuels Hopes of RBI Rate Cut
R. Suryamurthy A larger-than-expected fall in India’s headline inflation rate in July to an eight-year low has intensified speculation about a potential interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of…
New Income Tax Regime to begin from April 2026
R. Suryamurthy India’s lower house of parliament on Monday approved a sweeping overhaul of the country’s income tax law, replacing the six-decade-old Income Tax Act of 1961 with a simplified…
Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs May Strain US Economy Over Time: One World Outlook
The reciprocal tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump may dampen slowly the US stock markets and economy as well. According to reports of One World Outlook, reciprocal tariffs imposed…
GST Data Shows 7.5% Growth, but Import-Driven Spike Masks Weak Domestic Demand
R. Suryamurthy India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue data for July 2025 may appear stable on the surface, but a closer look reveals troubling undercurrents that demand urgent policy…
Women Powering GST Growth: 20% of Taxpayers Include Female Members: SBI report
A Akhter India’s economic power is not just expanding in numbers—it’s becoming more inclusive. According to a new report by SBI’s Economic Research Department, out of over 1.52 crore active…
Streamlining GST Rates Could Destabilise India’s Fiscal Federalism
R. Suryamurthy As India inches closer to overhauling its multi-rate Goods and Services Tax (GST) structure, a new working paper from the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)…
Disinflation Deepens in India: June CPI at 2.1%, Debate Over RBI’s Next Move Intensifies
R. Suryamurthy India’s retail inflation in June unexpectedly plummeted to its lowest level since January 2019, rekindling speculation about further interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)…
India’s WPI Inflation Falls to -0.13% in June 2025, Driven by Dip in Food and Fuel Prices
India’s Wholesale Price Index, WPI inflation dropped to (-) 0.13% in June, 2025, over the same period last year. The dip is primarily due to decrease in prices of food…