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Air India flight incident: AAIB flags hydraulic failure, pilot drug test
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GDP data row: What is Base Year, how is it revised and why has it raised a political storm? | Explained
Mint Explainer: A base-year revision allows the government to incorporate newer data sources, improve its methodology and better capture changes in the economy, which can look very different over five years.
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4 Sept 2026
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India should avoid becoming a conduit for unethical trade, transhipments: Piyush Goyal
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4 Sept 2026
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‘Will affect credibility’: Shashi Tharoor urges Modi Govt to respond to ‘devastating’ GDP data critique
“This is a devastating critique that requires straightforward responses from the government,” Tharoor said in a post on X quoting Congress leader Jairam Ramesh's statement.
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4 Sept 2026
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UP to maintain fiscal discipline as investment push gathers pace, says finance minister Suresh Khanna
Uttar Pradesh aims to balance a massive infrastructure and tech-driven investment push with strict fiscal discipline, keeping its deficit under 3% of Gross State Domestic Product.
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4 Sept 2026
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Nvidia-Hugging Face deal: Chip giant to buy AI platform for $12.93 billion
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3 Sept 2026
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Fed's Waller signals patience on rates, but keeps hike on table if inflation heats up
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller is inclined to remain patient on interest rates, influenced by upcoming inflation data. He noted he might consider a rate hike if inflation data shows progress towards the 2% goal, acknowledging some signs of disinflation.
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3 Sept 2026
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Cong again questions India's ‘chest-thumping’ 7.8% GDP growth, demands answers on ₹43 lakh crore revision
The opposition party also asked what methodology was adopted by the government to bring this revision while seeking an explanation for the reduction of ₹43 lakh crore in the estimated size of the economy.
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3 Sept 2026
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Raghuram Rajan clarifies his stand on GDP: If growth is strong, why aren’t private investment, FDI and jobs rising?
Raghuram Rajan stated he has neither questioned nor endorsed India's GDP growth figures. He expressed confusion over the economy’s growth not leading to increased private investment, FDI, or job creation.
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3 Sept 2026
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Exports push GDP growth, but low-margin shipments struggle
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3 Sept 2026
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Regional airline FLY91 places order for 40 ATR planes amid push for regional connectivity
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3 Sept 2026
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Nuclear scientist’s energy pitch: Why India needs transition to thorium-based fuel?
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3 Sept 2026
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Goyal calls for nationwide push to unlock export benefits under FTAs
Addressing a national workshop in New Delhi on leveraging free trade agreements, commerce minister Piyush Goyal said India's nine FTAs currently cover economies representing about $60 trillion in GDP and provide preferential access to nearly two-thirds of global trade.
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3 Sept 2026
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Neelkanth Mishra rejects base-revision concerns over 7.8% GDP growth, says, 'several indicators hard to manipulate'
Neelkanth Mishra of the World Bank defended India's 7.8% GDP growth, asserting that claims questioning its accuracy are incorrect.
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3 Sept 2026
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Mint Explainer | What is the confusion over GDP growth numbers?
Opposition parties and some experts have questioned the government's latest GDP data. Mint examines the allegations and whether there is any merit to the concerns.
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3 Sept 2026
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India GDP debate: Why 7.8% growth rate isn’t final, and 2.6% misses the math
A methodological shift and routine revisions to India's GDP data have caused confusion over official statistics and critics' claims, even as headline growth struggles to lift living standards.
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3 Sept 2026
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7.8% or 2.6%? Modi Govt vs Subhash Chandra Garg on India’s GDP Q1 numbers
The Congress party cited criticism by former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg on GDP numbers to attack the government, saying it must understand that ‘PR can polish the picture’ of GDP but not the economy itself.
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3 Sept 2026
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India’s services sector expands in August, but growth at four-year low, PMI survey shows
Services activity accelerated in August, but weak new-business growth and intense competition kept the sector’s expansion near its weakest level in more than four years, even as hiring hit a 15-month high.
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3 Sept 2026
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Who is Subhash Chandra Garg? All about ex‑finance secretary questioning India’s 7.8% GDP growth
In July 2019, Garg took voluntary retirement from service, a day after he was moved to the Power Ministry in a broader reshuffle just three weeks after the presentation of the Union Budget. Garg's scheduled retirement was in October 2020.
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3 Sept 2026
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Centre defends GDP estimates, says revisions reflect updated data, methodology
The government issues a detailed clarification in a question-and-answer format, refuting allegations of artificially pushing up the real growth rate for the June quarter to 7.8% and the nominal expansion rate to 10.3%.
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2 Sept 2026
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