Industrial Growth News

Production in coal, crude oil, natural gas, and refinery products has slowed down in September. Steel was the only core sector that stood out with a healthy output. This will reflect on September's overall industrial output which has been seeing an uptick in growth in the last three months.

Why are Indian firms lagging in research and development? This can largely be attributed to broader policy and social settings that we mustn’t overlook but grapple with.

Data for April from India’s index of industrial production doesn’t offer much cause for cheer. Cheaper credit may help only on the margin, although relief from global trade uncertainty might help set the factory sector abuzz.

Oxfam estimates that British colonial rule extracted $64.82 trillion from India between 1765 and 1900. This estimate should do more than just drop jaws in Britain.

Rates were high in the 19th century, but the economy boomed most when the rates were at their lowest.