In an announcement that will cheer the markets and investors, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the fiscal deficit for the current financial year has been curtailed at 5.2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is lower than the estimated fiscal deficit target of 5.3%. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.