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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Homeless? Congrats

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If you haven't bought a house of your own yet, or feel priced out of the market now, there may be some good news in store. Home loan rates are set to rise again, while realty prices head for a bigger-than-expected fall. The result: paying rent just got smarter.

That's one way of looking at the brighter side of Reserve Bank of India's credit policy on Tuesday, which, otherwise, painted a gloomier picture of the economy and brought such measures that would make the slowdown worse than now.

The central bank raised the rate at which it lends to commercial banks in the short term, and ordered them to hold more cash in reserves, in a bid to contain inflation that has reached a worrisome 12 per cent and threatens to detail the India growth story .

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Friday, May 30, 2008

Farm boost to economic health

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The growth rate of agriculture, one of the key sectors driving the Indian economy, would be around 3.5 per cent for 2007-08, the government estimated on Thursday The latest estimate, up from . the earlier estimate of 2.6, is the highest since 2002, indicating a much-awaited revival of agriculture.

The higher agriculture growth may push the Gross Domestic Product growth rate - to be released on Friday - to 9 per cent from the initial estimate of 8.7 per cent, and give India economic growth of more than 9 per cent for the third straight year. The UPA government had maintained that for GDP growth to be over 9 per cent, agriculture production should grow at an annual rate of 4 per cent.

The high agriculture growth rate comes at the time when the UPA government is under fire from friends and foes for not being able to control the high inflation rate and is trying to tell people that India's food security was not under threat because of global food crises.

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