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Reasonable capacity utilisation may take a quarter: ITC's Sanjiv Puri

FCMG companies have been grappling with multiple challenges - manufacturing, supply chain and manpower availability being primary among them

Policy dilemma: Is the Covid-19 pandemic a demand or supply shock?

In the absence of clarity about the impact of this crisis on demand and supply, any measure undertaken presents the possibility of proving to be eminently wrong when clarity eventually emerges

Centre seeks India Inc's view on economic revival amid Covid-19 outbreak

Key demands and suggestions include improving liquidity, cutting customs duties and goods and services tax (GST) rates, expediting all refunds and a halt on tax scrutiny

Stop or slow?

A quick economic recovery requires that we keep people employed and the economy ticking over

PM's complete silence on economic package worrying: Marico's Harsh Mariwala

In an interview with Viveat Susan Pinto, Harsh Mariwala, chairman, Marico, expresses his fears, saying the road ahead for industry will not be easy

Coronavirus outbreak: A 21-day lockdown may have cost India Rs 8 trillion

The sectors that have been most impacted are transport, hospitality, and real estate

Working capacity at 25% may be unviable as industry awaits end of lockdown

Auto component vendor Nippon Paint India said that at 25 per cent capacity, it will not even meet plant overhead costs, leave alone company overheads.

Industrial output at 4.5% in Feb, may shrink in March over Covid-19 crisis

The rise in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) helped pull up cumulative growth in industrial output to 0.9 per cent in the April-February period of 2019-20,

Manufacturing firms want partial lift on Covid-19 lockdown to reduce losses

Most of the exporters have the required manpower and had sourced the raw material before the lockdown. All they need now is permission to produce their goods

Manufacturing PMI at 4-month low over record dip in new export orders

The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) stood at 51.8 in March, after February's 54.5 - much below the eight-year high of 55.3 in January.

Covid-19: Biz sentiment sinks to record low; mfg activity down in March

"The most prominent signs of trouble came from the new export orders and future activity indices, which respectively indicated tumbling global demand and softening domestic confidence," Kerr noted.

After the lockdown

Planning for the revival of the economy

Rise in petroleum production drives core sector output to 11-month high

Grows by 5.5% in Feb, driven by petroleum production, rise in electricity output

Now what?

Once the lockdown is lifted, we will need the mother of all fiscal and monetary policy support to sustain the economy

Industrial output breaks 3-month downward streak, expands by 1.8% in Nov

The rise in IIP helped pull up cumulative growth in industrial output to 0.6 per cent in the April-November period of FY20

Service sector returns to growth on strong demand; PMI at 52.7 in November

Wednesday's upbeat survey comes after official data showed India's annual economic growth slowed to 4.5% in the July-September quarter, its weakest pace since 2013.

GDP growth tanks to 4.5% in Q2; core industries' output shrinks 5.8% in Oct

Fiscal deficit in the first seven months of FY20 already at 102% of government's target for full financial year

India's Q2 GDP growth dips to over 6-yr low of 4.5%; manufacturing weighs

This GDP growth data for the September 2019 quarter is the lowest since January-March of 2012-13, when it was registered at 4.3%

US October job growth beats expectations despite General Motors strike

Job growth has slowed this year, averaging 167,000 per month compared with an average monthly gain of 223,000 in 2018

Tipping point: India's export of services will soon exceed that of goods

As services exports succeed, the rupee will get stronger and the manufacturing sector will find it harder to compete globally, causing a shortage of domestic jobs for rural youth, writes T N Ninan