New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- Former IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath, now a Professor at Harvard University, is of the view that International Monetary Fund (IMF) will certainly raise India's growth forecast for 2025-26, on the back of robust economic growth it recorded in the first two quarters of the current fiscal.

IMF had initially projected India's growth for 2025-26 to be at 6.5 per cent. This October, the IMF revised up India's growth for 2025 to 6.6 per cent.

"But that came in before the second quarter growth numbers came out. So I expect they will move up to 7 per cent the next time they come up with their numbers," Gita Gopinath said Wednesday, speaking at the Times Network India Economic Conclave.

According to her, India is actual...