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Sugarcane's Third Claimant: What's Actually Being Fermented Into India's First PLA Plant

August 28, 2026

India is about to get its first industrial-scale polylactic acid (PLA) plant — a compostable bioplastic India currently imports almost ...

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The Hydrogen Bill Hiding Inside India's Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mandate

August 26, 2026

Every litre of Sustainable Aviation Fuel that ICAO’s CORSIA framework recognises — made from used cooking oil, ethanol, or captured car...

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Interest Subvention Built 499 Ethanol Distilleries. Viability Gap Funding Built One Working 2G Plant.

August 26, 2026

India ran two ethanol incentive experiments side by side, on similar timelines and comparable total outlays. One cut the cost of capita...

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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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