According to data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the GDP for Q2 stood at Rs 31.66 lakh crore, or a growth of 6.3 per cent.
The GDP growth had hit a three-year low of 5.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2017-18. It was 7.5 per cent in the September quarter of 2016-17.
India's GDP grew at 5.7 per cent in the April-June quarter of 2017-18, its lowest under the Narendra Modi government.
Government think tank Niti Aayog has envisaged a New India by 2022 which will be free from poverty, dirt, corruption, terrorism, casteism and communalism.
The government, on Tuesday, announced a capital infusion of Rs 2.11 lakh crore in state-run banks over a period of two years.
The recent slowdown in India's economic growth is an "aberration" mainly due to the temporary disruptions in preparation for the GST, the World Bank said on Thursday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting with BJP chief Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Refuting criticism of his government's handling of the economy, PM Narendra Modi said that during the previous UPA regime, economy was below 5.7 per cent eight times.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed the Company Secretaries from all over India at a programme in New Delhi to mark the golden jubilee year of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).
Fitch on Monday lowered India's growth forecast to 6.9 per cent from earlier prediction of 7.4 per cent.
Bringing petroleum products under GST may lead to petrol and diesel prices falling by as much as Rs 31 in Delhi.
The lack of jobs and the next round of Assembly polls among the other issues expected to dominate the meet which will be addressed by PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to dispel concerns over the state of economy and lay down his government's economic and political agenda as a two-day BJP national executive meeting begins here today
The final decision on the fund infusion and on breaching the fiscal deficit target will be taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a media report said
India's GDP growth was expected to decline in the first quarter of the current fiscal but the "free fall" in the numbers shows that the problem is more structural than transient
Congress said the slow GDP growth rate was because of the prime minister's "reckless" decision of demonetisation
The GDP growth of Indian economy in the first quarter of 2017-18 fiscal has slowed down to 5.7 per cent as against 6.1 per cent in the previous quarter
The veteran industrialist said people expecting a single rate or two rates in a country like India with people with different levels of income was unrealistic
The year 2015-16 saw a 17 per cent increase in the total internet traffic in India that led to an increase of Rs 7 lakh crore in Gross Domestic Product
In addition to that, the IMF also cut its forecast for 2018 US GDP growth to 2.1 per cent from 2.5 per cent.
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