Thinking global, living local

The Phone PLI's Successor Pays Up to 5%, Wants 15% Growth a Year, and Offers 0.2% to Make the Cell Here

October 26, 2026

The successor to the smartphone PLI pays 5% on most growth, not the 2.75% in its headline, but only after a brand grows more than 15% a ...

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India's Display Fab Scheme Got Two Billion-Dollar Bids and Approved Neither. Then It Redefined "Display Fab" Small Enough to Claim One Anyway.

September 28, 2026

In December 2021, India offered up to ₹12,000 crore to whichever of at most two companies built a large-panel display factory. Two real...

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India's ₹60,000 Crore API Push, Traced to Its Six Actual Schemes

September 16, 2026

India's "₹60,000 crore API push," announced in December 2025, is not one new scheme — it is at least six existing ones add...

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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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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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