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3 weeks ago | 
livemint.com | Pragya Srivastava |Tanay Sukumar
Economy Summary The tariff rates that the White House accuses countries of imposing on US goods do not add up. The figures floated by Trump match with another ratio derived from trade data, which doesn't align with what tariffs actually mean. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.
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3 weeks ago | 
htsyndication.com | Pragya Srivastava |Tanay Sukumar
New Delhi, April 3 -- After days of uncertainty and speculation, US President Donald Trump announced his promised reciprocal trade tariffs on nearly all countries on Thursday. However, the numbers he used to decide how badly countries should be punished fail a basic smell test. There is little connection between what countries actually impose on US imports and what Trump has accused them of imposing.
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2 months ago | 
livemint.com | Manjul Paul |Pragya Srivastava
Economy Summary The government said it tried to allay the concerns of India's middle class, particularly income tax payers, in the Union Budget by announcing massive tax cuts to lift consumption. But do we know who's actually middle class in India? This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
livemint.com | Pragya Srivastava
Summary If CPI inflation aligns with projections, the average for October-November would stand at 5.9%, slightly above the central bank’s revised forecast of 5.7% for the October-December quarter. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s retail inflation is expected to have eased to 5.5% in November from 6.2% the previous month, driven by a seasonal decline in vegetable prices, according to a Mint poll of 16 economists.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Pragya Srivastava
New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- India's retail inflation is expected to have eased to 5.5% in November from 6.2% the previous month, driven by a seasonal decline in vegetable prices, according to a Mint poll of 16 economists. Even if inflation moderated in November, it would still have exceeded the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) medium-term target of 4% in all but two months since September 2019.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
livemint.com | Pragya Srivastava |Payal Bhattacharya
Economy Summary Held in Azerbaijan, COP29 raised the previous climate financing goal but it failed to get wider acceptance. In the next few days, the US, the UK, India, Japan and Indonesia, among others, will announce their monetary policies, and more. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Pragya Srivastava
New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- Every Friday, Plain Facts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by. The shares of Adani group companies plunged on Thursday after the US indicted chairman Gautam Adani and other executives for allegedly bribing Indian officials. The government plans to expand the scope of the Prime Minister Internship Scheme, while Bitcoin prices are skyrocketing.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
livemint.com | Pragya Srivastava
Summary News and developments from the week gone by, through numbers and charts. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Every Friday, Plain Facts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
medium.com | Pragya Srivastava
Pragya Srivastava·Follow2 min read·--Happy society of the pastImagine India of a hundred years ago. People of today say, newspapers of that time and the views of the thinkers of that time tell us that our country was happy then. Although we were slaves of the British. If even one of their soldiers came to a village or town, people would get terrified. The landlords also had a separate and arrogant rule. Its wrath was more visible in the villages along with the moneylenders.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
livemint.com | Pragya Srivastava
Economy Summary Apart from the thinning of the high base effect, sustained food price pressures are expected to have driven inflation higher than the 6% threshold in October. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Two of the six members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) noted a near-term retail inflation “hump" in the October policy meeting.
