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Roshan Kishore

Roshan Kishore

Roshan Kishore is the Data and Political Economy Editor at Hindustan Times. His weekly column for HT Premium Terms of Trade appears every Friday.

Articles by Roshan Kishore

What the Union Budget 2026-27 means for Fiscal

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a press conference after the presentation of the Union Budget 2026

Updated on Feb 1, 2026 16:46 IST

What the Union Budget 2026-27 means for Growth

The short point is, this year’s budget is hoping for some revival in inflation to support growth as far as the budgetary math is concerned

Updated on Feb 1, 2026 17:05 IST

What the Union Budget 2026-27 means for: Reforms

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a press conference after the presentation of the Union Budget 2026–27 Times) (Hindustan Times/Arvind Yadav)

Updated on Feb 1, 2026 16:11 IST

This year's Budget: What to expect and what not to | Number Theory

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her ninth consecutive budget today

Updated on Feb 1, 2026 03:19 IST

Terms of Trade: Reimagining the budget to reinvigorate reforms

Can the budget reinvent reforms in a way that makes it an organic driver of growth rather than something that provides one-off boosts or makes unrealised promises? (HT Archive)

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 19:12 IST

Can the 16th Finance Commission rejuvenate fiscal federalism? | Number Theory

The 16th FC’s report will likely be tabled along with Sunday’s Budget

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 05:27 IST

Fiscal deficit on track as tax base broadens, spending rationalised

The Reserve Bank of India. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 30, 2026 03:22 IST

Economic Survey says India to grow by up to 7.2% next fiscal

Policy dynamism and purposeful, governance reinforce this backdrop” CEA V Anantha Nageswaran writes in his preface to the survey,

Updated on Jan 30, 2026 02:20 IST

The Goldilocks lock on the budget | Number Theory

PTI file photo

Updated on Jan 29, 2026 02:59 IST

What will it take to unlock export-led growth for India? | Number Theory

@FinMinIndia

Updated on Jan 28, 2026 03:23 IST

Can a broader NDA defeat the DMK in Tamil Nadu? | Number Theory

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami during an NDA rally at Maduranthakam in Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu on January 23.

Updated on Jan 27, 2026 02:38 IST

More babies are born in UP and Bihar than perhaps all of China | Number Theory

Representational image.

Updated on Jan 23, 2026 03:04 IST

Terms of Trade: Rhetoric cannot spare the world Donald Trump’s belligerence

US President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 21. (AFP)

Updated on Jan 22, 2026 11:45 IST

IMF raises India’s FY26 growth forecast to 7.3%

FILE PHOTO: Inflation in India is expected to go back to near target levels after a marked decline in 2025 driven by subdued food prices,” the report said. (REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 20, 2026 11:16 IST

Davos, amid threat of Trump avalanche, AI earthquake | Number Theory

Reuters file photo

Updated on Jan 21, 2026 05:47 IST

India will continue to be fastest growing major economy: IMF

India will continue to be fastest growing major economy: IMF

Updated on Jan 20, 2026 01:42 IST

Terms of Trade: The fault in our stars

Barring the small continent of Australia, there isn’t one place in the world which isn’t going through extreme turbulence. (Representative photo)

Updated on Jan 16, 2026 09:07 IST

Bidding adieu to the current inflation series | Number Theory

Revision of data series such as inflation and GDP is a regular statistical practice. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 03:19 IST

Retail inflation remains muted at 1.3% in December

December’s low headline print is primarily a result of falling food prices (AFP FILE)

Updated on Jan 13, 2026 10:17 IST

What's at stake for the US in Federal Reserve vs Trump? | Number Theory

AFP

Updated on Jan 13, 2026 03:32 IST

The lack of a timely Census has muddied the SIR debate | Number Theory

An official collects data for Census.

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 03:17 IST

Are SIR deletions mostly about double counting?

Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and their teams check and collect enumeration forms as voters fill them out and queue to submit them during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Prayagraj (Nitin Sharma)

Updated on Jan 8, 2026 05:12 IST

Backdrop for Budget: 7.4% growth estimated for FY26

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI). (File photo.)

Updated on Jan 8, 2026 24:12 IST

Terms of Trade: The gig debate misses the woods for the trees

The gig economy is perhaps the only semi-skilled, but formal sector work that has seen a large growth in the Indian economy in the past couple of decades. (PTI)

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 07:50 IST

Bitter harvest: The rise of bad loans in the agriculture sector

Workers plant paddy in the fields in Wayanad district of Kerala. (Representational image)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 07:04 IST

Terms of Trade: So long, employment guarantee…

Labourers under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act work at a site on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan. (PTI File)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 10:01 IST

An economic juggling act: AI, China, googlies from US

US President Donald Trump (left) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 13, 2025. (Reuters)

Updated on Jan 1, 2026 03:09 IST

The Year That Was: A year when domestic policy did the heavy lifting

Inflation started falling rapidly after the first quarter of the year and reached its lowest ever value in the current series. (File Photo)

Updated on Dec 31, 2025 05:13 IST

Roshan Kishore picks his favourite read of 2025

Srinath Raghavan’s Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 12:09 IST

What India wears - II | Number Theory

ANI picture

Updated on Dec 15, 2025 03:14 IST

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