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Statsguru: Worsening state finances

Since coming to power, the NDA government has committed itself to fiscal prudence

Statsguru: The year gone by

Gross domestic product is expected to grow at 7.1 per cent in FY17

Statsguru: Tough times ahead for telcos

With Reliance Jio unleashing a tariff war, other telecom operators rushed to match its offers

Statsguru: Legal hurdles in land acquisition

As many as 280 cases have landed in the Supreme Court under the LARR Act of 2013 in the past 3 years

Statsguru: Health indicators show improvement

NFHS show a marked improvement on various health and nutrition parameters over the past decade

Statsguru: The bad loan problem

GNPAs of public sector banks are now at a staggering 11.2 per cent of their advances

StatsGuru: How govt's tax revenues got a demonetisation boost in Nov

Among direct taxes, corporate tax, I-T mop-up rose sharply; indirect tax also saw robust growth

Statsguru: Looking back - 2016 in review

Despite the weakness in the economy, foreign investors continued to pour in billions

Statsguru: Tracking political funding

51% of total donations to National Parties came from donors whose details are not available in the public domain

Statsguru: Uncertain inflation outlook

Retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), declined to a 24-month low of 3.63 per cent in November

Statsguru: Living in times of uncertainty

With multiple triggers, policy uncertainty across the world has increased of late

Statsguru: RBI's interest rate dilemma

Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India will be meeting for the first time since the decision to demonetisation

STATSGURU: Lens on rural transactions

Only 38% of branches of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) are in rural areas.

Statsguru: Cash crunch to hit growth

Because Indian economy uses cash far more than other countries

Statsguru: India's black economy and impact of demonetisation

PM Modi announced demonetisation of existing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes last week, while there is no sure measure of the black economy

StatsGuru: Taking stock of indebtedness in the Indian corporate sector

The combined debt of India's top family-owned groups has grown faster than their revenue and operating profits

StatsGuru: Doing business in India

World Bank's latest Doing Business 2017 ranking has pegged India at 130th rank out of 190 countries

StatsGuru: What ails exports?

Much like in other countries, exports in India, too, were adversely affected by the global slowdown in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis

StatsGuru: India's fight against hunger

The International Food Policy Research Institute's Global Hunger Index shows India has slid further down the rankings

StatsGuru: Will the repo rate cut work?

The Monetary Policy Committee surprised many by cutting the policy rates by 25 basis points