{"id":585946,"date":"2026-08-31T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585946\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:32:39","slug":"indias-gdp-records-surprise-growth-of-7-8-amid-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585946\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s GDP records surprise growth of 7.8% amid the Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Sector encompassing finance, real estate and IT grew most in April-June quarter<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260831 India GDP\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The government has rolled out a string of economic measures since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran war at the end of February, while the economy has continued to benefit from consumption tax cuts made in September last year. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p>SAYAN CHAKRABORTY<\/p>\n<p>August 31, 2026 20:13 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BENGALURU &#8212; India&#8217;s economy beat estimates to grow 7.8% in the quarter through June, the country&#8217;s statistics ministry said on Monday, in a sign that the South Asian nation stayed resilient despite the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Sector encompassing finance, real estate and IT grew most in April-June quarter The government has rolled out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[51182,138,219,12410,3499,82715,16609,111,139,69,9090,88,6149],"class_list":["post-585946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-51182","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-growth","tag-indias","tag-iran","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-records","tag-surprise","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}