Economy

'Reduce expenditure, maintain financial discipline,' says outgoing Kerala FM Thomas Isaac

May 12, 2021

'Reduce expenditure, maintain financial discipline,' says outgoing Kerala FM Thomas Isaac

He handled the state's finances first from 2006-11 in the V S Achuthanandan cabinet and then in the outgoing Pinarayi cabinet.

April 16, 2021
In next 5 years women owned-businesses in India to rise by 90%

Around 80 per cent of women, from semi-urban and rural India, feel a significant improvement in their socio-economic and cultural status after starting an enterprise.
February 25, 2021
Number of digitally skilled workers to grow nine times in India by 2025

Cloud architecture design, cybersecurity and large-scale data modelling are among the top in-demand skills in the country.
February 01, 2021
Spend to grow: That will be the thrust of Budget 2021

In content, vision, strategy and action this budget will have to bring at least the heft and vigour of the reforms-oriented presentation by Dr. Manmohan Singh in July, 1991.
January 31, 2021
Will Sitharaman's Budget 21-22 help a Covid-hit economy pick up the pieces?

The budget, economists and experts say, will be the starting point for picking up the pieces after the economic destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 29, 2021
Budget 2021: What India expects from Modi government on Feb 1

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to unveil plans to boost economic growth when she presents the 2021/2022 federal budget on February 1.
December 09, 2020
Women who run ethical business worse hit by COVID than men

From factory floors to shops, women have endured greater job losses and wage cuts due to the virus in a new setback to gender parity in the workplace.

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