India’s prime minister has unveiled a new $108bn plan to drastically improve the country’s inadequate road infrastructure. But are his plans too ambitious?

With more than one billion data profiles already under its belt, India’s biometric database has turned an ultra-modern ideal into an everyday reality. But such hi-tech convenience does not come without unprecedented risks

As nations around the world abandon cash in favour of mobile banking, we may well be witnessing the demise of physical money

There are many good reasons to fight President Trump’s travel ban, but economics isn’t one of them, writes James Stannard

Following months of speculation and mounting concerns, Urjit Patel has been named as the new Governor of the RBI

A fall in inflation has prompted the Reserve Bank of India to cut its key interest rate for the first time since September

After a disappointing few years, data for the first half of 2015 suggests Indian private equity is on the up

In an attempt to close its current account deficit, Indian government hopes to mobilise idle gold hordes

India’s GDP will exceed that of Japan and Germany combined as adjusted data shows faster than expected economic growth

President Modi is determined to turn India’s reputation as a lower-end tech economy into that of a leading digital region

India will double the tax on coal production as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government commits to financing clean environment initiatives

Anti-establishment Common Man Party deals blow to Modi’s reform agenda less than a year after taking office

Sri Lanka’s new president pledges a 100-day programme to restructure the state and economy

The RBI has cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points in a bid to boost lending and revive the investment cycle

The former chairman of Indian IT group Satyam Computer Services has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment following a $1bn accounting scandal in 2009