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India Mapped 12,174 Tariff Codes to 31 Ministries. 495 Products Still Have No One Willing to Own Them.

September 28, 2026

DPIIT spent a year matching every one of India's 12,174 tariff codes to the ministry that should regulate it, using the same 1961 r...

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India Doesn't Have One Quality Regulator. It Has 37 — and One Just Repealed Itself Before It Started.

September 24, 2026

BIS is the name everyone reaches for, but it's one of roughly three dozen statutory regulators, accreditation boards and voluntary ...

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India Ended 63 Years of State Nuclear Monopoly — But Foreign Reactor Builders Are Still Locked Out

September 15, 2026

On 21 December 2025, a new law quietly ended six decades of exclusive state control over who can build a nuclear power plant in India. P...

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Interpreting the Gazette Notification

September 04, 2026

Read any single Indian gazette notification on its own and you cannot tell whether it is the first version of a rule or the seventh, wh...

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Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
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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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