After festival inventory buildup, two-wheeler dispatches fall in November

Major two-wheeler (2W) manufacturers in India witnessed a single-digit decline in domestic sales in November after dispatches had picked up in October for the festive season when wholesales went up by 14 per cent and retail also grew by 36

‘GDP Numbers Will Be A Distant Memory’

Latest GDP growth numbers a one-off development and not the beginning of a trend, says CEA V Anantha Nageswaran.   India’s second-quarter GDP growth rate of 5.4 per cent is disappointing but there is no reason to be alarmed as

‘GST Council Should Jack Up Rates’

‘Rates go up, revenues go up, and the need for compensation diminishes.’   The Goods and Services Tax Council has turned into a “rate cutting panel”, former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian said on Friday while suggesting that the council

GDP growth slows to 2-year low of 5.4% in Q2

India’s economic growth slowed to near two-year low of 5.4 per cent in the July-September quarter of this fiscal due to poor performance of manufacturing and mining sectors as well as weak consumption, but the country continued to remain the

Sazerac targets India’s whisky mkt to uncork bourbon growth

Sazerac Company, the largest distiller in the US, is looking to leverage India’s position as the world’s largest whisky market to introduce a range of bourbon whiskies in the country. Photograph: Sazerac/Instagram Identifying India as a key priority market, Diego