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The Reactor Nobody Names: How Coal Becomes Syngas, and Why India's Flagship Plant Runs on Someone Else's Technology

September 19, 2026

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Jan Aushadhi Sells 2,439 Products. Here's What We Actually Know About Where Their APIs Come From.

September 16, 2026

The Jan Aushadhi scheme now sells 2,439 products — 2,125 medicines and 314 surgical items — at Kendras across India, priced 50–80% below...

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India's Semaglutide Patent Cliff: 26 Brands in Weeks, a Price War, and a Government Crackdown

September 16, 2026

Semaglutide's Indian patent expired on 20 March 2026; within weeks, 13 companies had launched 26 branded generics, Novo Nordisk cut ...

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Dr. Reddy's Cut Its Semaglutide Guidance in Half After an API Impurity It Caught Itself

September 16, 2026

A scale-up batch of Dr. Reddy's own synthetic semaglutide API tested out of specification in July 2026 — not a regulator's findi...

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Ethanol Freed Up Refinery Capacity for Petrochemicals. The Pharma Chain Hasn't Seen Much of It Yet.

September 16, 2026

E20 blending now removes a structural fifth of the petrol pool from every litre refiners sell, and they are redirecting the freed capaci...

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Data-led analysis of India's trade, currency and industrial policy. Every article is built from primary official sources, and every figure links back to the release, table or filing it came from.

Sources. DGCI&S TradeStat (imports/exports, HSN-wise) · PIB (government press releases, January 2017 to today, refreshed daily) · RBI (circulars, balance of payments) · MoSPI (CPI/WPI, IIP) · PARIVESH (environmental clearances) · CCIL (bond yields) · BIS (policy rates) · SEBI, NSE/BSE and SEC filings for company data.

Interpretation. Figures carry their vintage and retrieval date; estimates and press-reported numbers are labelled as such; where sources disagree, both are shown. Corrections are made visibly, never silently. Articles are written with AI assistance from the cited sources — AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real material, so verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked primary source.

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