Radhika Rao

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  India’s FY27 Growth To Top 7% Despite Second-Half Slowdown: DBS Bank’s Radhika Rao

  Rising crude oil prices, cost pressures, and uncertainty over consumer demand could weigh on India's economic momentum in the second half of fiscal 2027. However, growth for the full year could remain above 7%, according to DBS Bank's Radhika Rao.

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  RBI Monetary Policy Committee May Consider Coronavirus Impact On Indian Economy: Report

  The Covid-19 outbreak has brought a large part of China to a standstill and its impact has been felt across industries.

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  Inflation Seen Cooling Further in October, May Not Budge RBI

  The recent slowdown in inflation has largely been due to falls in local food prices, which account for 50 per cent of the CPI basket, and Capital Economics' India economist Shilan Shah said it could still go lower.

• Credit-deposit ratio unlikely to slip under 75 per cent this fiscal year: DBS

  Though both credit and deposit growth hit new lows in FY2014 at 13.4 per cent and 14 per cent, respectively, the credit-deposit ratio of banks is unlikely to ease below 75 per cent, according to Singaporean brokerage DBS.

• DBS pegs India's FY15 growth at 5.5 per cent on positive poll outcome

  Singapore-based brokerage DBS has forecast a moderate spike in India's gross domestic growth in FY15 to 5.5 per cent on a positive poll outcome leading to a stable government taking office after the upcoming elections.

• India makes feeble recovery; Jan-March GDP up 4.8%

  Asia's third largest economy grew 4.8 per cent from a year earlier in the January-March quarter, in line with Reuters economists poll. The showing in the March quarter was only slightly better than an upwardly revised 4.7 per cent growth in the previous three months, which was the lowest in fifteen quarters.

• Rate cut hopes rise as inflation falls to lowest in over three years

  Suffering from low growth and an investment drought, India needs foreign inflows to help fund a worryingly high current account deficit, while the RBI wants lower inflation to feel more comfortable about reducing interest rates that are among the highest of all the major economies.

• Growth expected to have slowed further in December quarter: poll

  The country's annual economic growth is expected to have slowed to 5 per cent in the quarter ended December partly due to a struggling farm sector, having already struck a near three-year low of 5.3 per cent in the previous quarter, according to a Reuters poll.

• Industrial output falls in November: Expert views

  India's industrial production contracted 0.1 per cent in November from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday.

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  Sunny Deol, Kangana Ranaut's I Love New Year to release on April 26

  I Love New Year, which features Sunny Deol and Kangana Ranaut as a couple for the first time, will hit the screens on April 26.

• Manufacturing is Indian economy's Achilles' heel: Experts

  India's economy grew at a higher-than-expected 5.5 per cent in the quarter ending in June, against analysts' forecasts of 5.3 per cent, government data showed on Friday. Here is what experts said.

• Bond issue a last resort as India frets over rupee

  India is weighing further steps to halt the slide in the rupee, which hit a new record low of 56.22/$ on Wednesday, including selling dollars directly to oil importers. While the RBI has been stepping into the market in recent weeks to defend the rupee by selling dollars, its capacity to intervene is limited.

• Experts don't rule out rupee touching 56 to the dollar

  Given the one-sided bias in the markets, there was little that the central bank could unilaterally do, says Radhika Rao.

• RBI's 'massive' intervention sparks rupee gains

  The rupee strengthened on Tuesday from a near-record low after the central bank undertook what dealers called a “massive” intervention.

• Rupee bounces from near record low; RBI steps in

  The Indian rupee dropped as low as 54.15 to the dollar soon after the day's opening trade.