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Instead of using a large set of data thus increasing statistical complexity, two main indicators of the Indian economy (economic policy uncertainty and consumer price index) were relied on. The paper followed the MIDAS\u2013Almon (PDL) weighting approach, which allowed us to successfully capture structural breaks and predict Indian GDP for the second quarter of 2021, after evaluating the accuracy of the nowcasting and out-of-sample prediction. Our results indicated low values of the RMSE in the sample and when predicting the out-of-sample1- and 4-quarter horizon, but RMSE increased when predicting the 10-quarter horizon. 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