Thinking global, living local

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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The Water Bill Nobody Mentions: What Taiwan's Chip Crisis Says About India's Fab Plans

August 18, 2026

In 2021, Taiwan's worst drought since 1964 forced TSMC to run 8,000 water-tanker trucks a day just to keep its fabs running, while ...

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The Cluster the Automotive Piece Left Out: Pitching Madhya Pradesh as India's Sixth Hub

August 15, 2026

A companion piece on this site mapped India's automotive clusters — Chennai, NCR, Pune, Sanand, AURIC — and left one out: Pithampur...

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How India's Automotive Clusters Rewired Themselves Around Just-in-Time Delivery

August 15, 2026

Maruti Suzuki gets over 76% of its 246 suppliers within 100km of its assembly lines, and its "e-Nagare" system cut the order-...

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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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