The growth mantra

The ¨ease of doing business¨ rankings released by the World Bank have indicated a minuscule improvement for India to a rank of 130 owing primarily to better points in ¨starting a business¨ and ¨getting an electricity connection¨. However, there has been no change in our abysmal ranking as far as ¨obtaining construction permits¨, ¨enforcing contracts¨ […]

Toasting the fighters

We are not out of the woods yet. Eight core sectors – coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity – slowed to 1.1 per cent in July after a growth of 3 per cent in June, mainly on account of low expansion in coal output and contraction in steel, crude […]