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The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in India has been largely disruptive. India's growth in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2020 went down to 3.1% according to the Ministry of Statistics. The Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India said that this drop is mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic effect on the Indian economy.
The stock markets in India continued to fall in 2016. By 16 February 2016, the BSE had seen a fall of 26% over the past eleven months, losing 1607 points in four consecutive days of February. The reasons given for this included NPAs of Indian banks, "global weaknesses" and "global factors".
The market closed with the KSE 100 index down 3.1%. [193] In India, the BSE SENSEX closed 1,942 points lower at 35,635 while the NSE Nifty 50 was down by 538 points to 10,451. [194] The Washington Post posited that coronavirus-related turmoil could spark a collapse of the corporate debt bubble, sparking and worsening a recession. [195]
The stock market has bounced back somewhat during the first few months of 2023. But it has not been significant enough to repair the damage of a nearly 20% drop in the S&P 500 index last year.
The NIFTY 50 index covers 13 sectors of the Indian economy and offers investment managers exposure to the Indian market in one portfolio. As of July 2024, NIFTY 50 gives a weightage of 32.76% to financial services including banking , 13.76% to information technology , 12.12% to oil and gas , 8.46% to consumer goods , and 8.22% to automotive .
India declares a heatwave when the maximum temperature is 4.5 degrees C to 6.4 degrees C higher than usual and a severe heat wave when it is 6.5 degrees C higher than normal or more.
The former Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram expected India's economy to "bounce back" to 9% during FY2009. [33] India's then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the government will take measures to ensure that the economic growth bounces back to 9%. [34] Nevertheless, India's overall growth of GDP in 2008-09 was 6.7%. [35] The Asian ...
The astounding labor market recovery from the pandemic is complete ... the bounce back marks the second-fastest job market recovery since 1981. ... Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian ...