Thinking global, living local

Five Years and ₹25,000 Crore Later, China Still Supplies Three-Quarters of India's Drug-Making Ingredients

September 16, 2026

What India's own government data says about the distance between how much active pharmaceutical ingredient the country consumes and ...

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India's EV Localisation Deadline Just Split in Two, Because of the One Part China Still Controls

September 15, 2026

Three postponements into India's push to force domestic manufacturing of e-bus and e-truck traction motors, the government's 3 S...

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You Cannot Substitute Crude Oil or Gold. That Is 40% of India's Import Bill.

August 23, 2026

India is reported to have drawn up a list of 1,272 products worth $189 billion of annual imports to replace with domestic manufacturing...

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5,417 Items You Cannot Import — and the Ministry's Own Two Numbers for What Replaced Them

August 23, 2026

India has banned the import of 5,417 defence items across six DPSU lists, funded a ₹750 crore innovation scheme to invent replacements,...

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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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