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Union Minister Piyush Goyal in Tokyo, Japan, during a meeting with business representatives, on August 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: X/@PiyushGoyal India is in negotiations with at least 8 to 9 more groups of countries and individual nations that together account for another $15 trillion of GDP, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on…
On August 20, a nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment on the correctness of the ruling in Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board vs A. Rajappa (BWSSB) (1978). In that judgment, Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer had laid down what was called the “Triple Test” on what counts as an “industry”…
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The slowdown in the growth of India’s core industrial sectors in July was not surprising, with other indicators predicting easing demand conditions as well. Growth in the index of core industries (ICI) slowed to 5.4% in July from 6% in the previous month. This was in keeping with the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, which in…
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One of the defining characteristics of mature consumer markets is not simply the abundance of products, but the quality of consumer decision-making. Across sectors, rising financial awareness, easier access to information and digital discovery are changing what people choose to buy and how they choose to buy. Consumers now expect to evaluate multiple options, understand…
Imagine reaching retirement with a bond portfolio that works like a staircase. One bond matures this year, another next year, and another the year after, giving you access to money at different points instead of having to unlock the entire investment at once. This is the idea behind a bond ladder: spreading maturities across time…
The Petroleum Ministry has asked States and Union Territories to provide district-level administrative support to accelerate the shift of households from LPG to piped natural gas (PNG), seeking the appointment of nodal officers to coordinate with gas distributors and oil marketing companies. In an August 21 letter to State Chief Secretaries, Petroleum Secretary Neeraj Mittal…
Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The combined market valuation of four of the top-10 most valued firms eroded by ₹87,960.29 crore last week, with Bharti Airtel taking the biggest hit, in-tandem with a bearish trend in equities. Last week, the BSE benchmark Sensex declined 468.42 points, or 0.60%, and…
The “Great Transshipment Scam”, an August 2026 White House report, accuses India’s Pune–Gujarat–Chennai production belt of pumps and compressors that export to the U.S. as being largely just pit stops in the movement of Chinese goods to America where no meaningful value addition is made. The report says China-linked exporters use jurisdictions like India for “both limited production activity and logistics-side routing”. And the alleged scam lies in evading the high tariffs that the Trump administration levied on China in its first term by routing these pumps and…
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While the Union Government’s latest push for Compressed Biogas (CBG) provides a more stable framework for offtake, industry observers and senior government officials say the next major imperative is to establish an efficient supply chain for procuring, storing and managing feedstock. This will be critical to ensuring both the viability of CBG plants and the…
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