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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2026
India’s Economic Survey has cautioned against over-reliance on services exports as a growth engine, arguing that while sectors such as IT and business services have expanded rapidly, they cannot substitute for manufacturing in delivering durable currency stability, broad-based employment or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2026
India’s economy is projected to grow at 7.4% in FY25-26, driven by robust domestic consumption and sustained investment activity, reaffirming the country’s position as the world’s fastest-growing major economy for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Economic Survey 2025–26 tabled in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2026
India’s Economic Survey, released on Thursday, has reiterated that durable economic growth is driven primarily by capital expenditure rather than short-term consumption stimulus, arguing that public investment in infrastructure and productive assets has played a central role in lifting the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2026
India’s latest Economic Survey has flagged deteriorating state government finances as a rising threat to fiscal stability, infrastructure creation and long-term economic growth, warning that populist spending choices at the state level are beginning to crowd out productive investment.   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 January 2026
India and the European Union (EU) on Tuesday concluded a long-awaited free trade agreement (FTA), a landmark pact billed by leaders on both sides as the 'mother of all deals', marking a decisive shift in one of India’s most strategic economic partnerships. The agreement was announced at the...

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The Indian government is in the final stages of setting up a new high-level body to cut regulatory hurdles and red tape, according to news reports. The structure, operating under the National Manufacturing Mission, is meant to slash bureaucratic delays and help triple merchandise exports by...

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The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos is the supreme arena for business optics. While world leaders make news at the formal plenary sessions, high-power networking occurs at private parties in a country better known for stashing away money secretly. So industrialists funding their...

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For a country facing multiple headwinds, India looks oddly relaxed. The stock market still hovers near record highs. Shopping malls are busy. Interest rates are stable. Car and bike sales are rising. High-end property sales are strong. To investors and policy-makers, this feels like smooth...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 January 2026
India’s services sector continued to expand in December but at a slower pace, with growth in new business and overall activity easing to their weakest levels in nearly a year, according to the latest purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey released on Tuesday.   The seasonally adjusted HSBC...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2026
India’s net goods and services tax (GST) collections grew 2.2% year-on-year in December 2025 to ₹1.45 lakh crore, marking the slowest pace of growth in indirect tax revenues since December 2024. The subdued performance highlights the pressure from weak domestic demand and elevated refund...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 January 2026
India’s financial system remains resilient and well-capitalised, despite heightened global uncertainties, with banks showing strong balance sheets and adequate capital buffers to withstand adverse stress scenarios, says the financial stability report (FSR) released by the Reserve Bank of India...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 26 December 2025
By the end of last year, 16 major Indian datasets were delayed across sectors such as health, education, economy, environment, and demography as IndiaSpend reported in 2024. Ten of these have since been released.   The datasets that were released this year include: 1. Consumer Expenditure...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 December 2025
Warning that the revamp may be costly, statistically unnecessary and potentially harmful to the credibility of inflation measurement, a technical report released by IIT Bombay has raised serious concerns over the Union government’s proposed changes to the way housing services are measured in...

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India’s stock market wears an air of resilience. Since the COVID-19 pandemic trough, benchmark indices—the Nifty 50 and the Sensex—have repeatedly scaled new highs, buoyed by domestic inflows, a swelling army of retail investors and a compelling narrative of long-term growth. Yet, as the...

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Dr TV Gopalakrishnan 15 December 2025
“Government is in a reform express phase and reform is not just revenue-centric, but citizen-centric reforms should be brought in all aspects of society, and not just in the economy. Laws are to be for the citizens' convenience, not to harass. Ease of life and ease of doing business are top...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 08 December 2025
The cost of groceries per person per day in Mizoram was Rs 77.5 in November 2025, about Rs 20 more than the all-India average (Rs 57), as per Food Price Watch, IndiaSpend’s realtime dashboard, which aggregates food prices from various groups across the country to estimate how much an individual...

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India’s new labour codes—four sweeping laws meant to replace 29 fusty statutes—promise to simplify compliance, broaden social security and grant firms the flexibility to hire, fire and grow. But then, India has a habit of announcing reforms that look splendid on paper but get bungled on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 December 2025
As expected, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its second monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting for 2025, decided to cut the repo rate, the central bank's rate for short-term loans to banks, by 25bps (basis points) to 5.25% from 5.5%. Consequently, the standing deposit facility (SDF) rate...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 December 2025
India’s services sector regained momentum in November, with business activity growth accelerating after a brief moderation in October, even as manufacturing output eased to a nine-month low. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services purchasing managers' index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2025
India’s economic growth remained firmly on an upward trajectory in the July–September quarter (Q2) of FY25-26, with real gross domestic product (GDP) rising 8.2%, according to the latest estimates released by the national statistics office (NSO). The performance marks a significant improvement...

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