India's economic contraction slowed sharply in the September quarter, but the economy entered a technical recession due to the impact of the harsh lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, or Covid-19, pandemic.
Gross domestic product fell 7.5 percent year-on-year, data from the statistics ministry showed on Friday.
The pace of decline was much slower than the record 23.9 percent contraction in the June quarter as lockdown restrictions were relaxed in the June quarter.
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