UP Assembly polls 2022: Why state’s ‘jobless growth’ decade will be a headache for new government

Trends over the decade indicate that the pace of economic growth is slow and not sufficient if UP wants to achieve the goal of becoming a trillion-…

COVID-19: What about housing for poor?

Union government’s housing scheme tragets derailed; low-income house buyers face increasingly volatile financial markets 

MGNREGA causing labour crisis: RBI

Rural households in six states said they prefer working under MGNREGA rather than traditional labour, leading to an agricultural labour crisis

MSP on crops has major impact on inflation: RBI

After government said that it will provide 1.5 times the MSP on cost of production of crops in the 2018-19 Union budget, RBI re-assessed the …

NPAs at Indian banks may rise to 8.6% of loans by March: RBI

NPAs had jumped to 7.6% in March 2016 from 5.1 per cent six months ago. This is because top borrowers are accounting for more and more bad loans.

Green bonds, banks can boost India’s clean energy market

India needs Rs 17.5 trillion to finance clean energy projects in order to ramp up its capacity to 160 GW by 2022

MGNREGA impact on food inflation is very limited, says RBI study

There are other factors for food price inflation, says the study commissioned in the wake of persistent double digit food price inflation between …

Andhra Pradesh announces Rs 43,000 crore loan waiver

Decision taken in spite of state facing financial crisis

Maharashtra DCCBs bailed out, finally

But with banking applications already rejected, RBI will need time to set the banks rolling

RBI rejects Andhra's request for farm loan reschedule

Apex bank finds no reason to waive farm loans or loan restructuring after independent verification of the state's official data on farm yields

Andhra HC dismisses petitions against law to regulate micro-finance companies

Suggests state government should review the law enacted in the wake of suicides by rural borrowers

HC gives temporary reprieve to three Maharashtra DCCBs facing liquidation

These banks being key pillar of the farm lending sector, 100,000 farmers may be affected this year

100,000 Maharashtra farmers may not get loan to sow kharif crop

Reserve Bank of India refuses to bail out three district cooperative banks

Financial inclusion: some suggestions

What the Modi government needs to achieve a 100 per cent success to provide every Indian access to formal financial services

In the name of the farmer