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India's New ‘Rs 5.25’ Green Tariff Is ‘Round The Clock’ In Name Only
Solar Energy Corporation of India's new tariff beats new coal on price. But the contract guarantees only 70 to 90% of supply, and is silent about who pays for the hours it doesn't cover.
E20 Backfires: How India's Ethanol Fumble Accidentally Fueled the EV, CNG Boom
How a fuel policy meant to save foreign exchange ended up saving the EV and CNG market instead
India's Startups And MSMEs Have No Use For The Data Centre Boom
The customers India's data centre boom is meant to mainly use American services, ultimately billed in dollars and indifferent to what gets built anywhere else.
What Delhi's EV Policy Means For The Future Of Sustainable Transport
Delhi's EV Policy 2.0 moves beyond subsidies to tackle charging infrastructure and freight electrification, offering a blueprint for India's clean mobility.
UPI Success Masks India's Larger Economic Inclusion Challenge
UPI hit 23.66 billion transactions in July, but digital access alone isn't economic progress. India needs to switch from the term financial inclusion to economic inclusion.
India's Rs 65,000 Crore Coal-To-Gas Push Has No Disclosed RoI
The government says gasification will replace Rs 1.5 lakh crore of imports a year. It has not said what the gas will cost to make, or a breakdown of the imports it replaces.
India’s Education Crisis Demands Imagination Beyond The Exam Factory
Beyond leaked papers and bureaucratic fixes, India's education crisis demands the kind of bold institutional imagination that Ukraine has shown even amid war.
India's Early Trade Pacts Failed. The EU Deal Can't Afford To
India's Asian trade deals produced tripled deficits and endless repair talks. The UK and EU papers put at stake what the old ones never had: a surplus.
India’s NBFCs Need Better Infrastructure, Not Just Better Lending
NBFC stress isn't just a credit story, it's an infrastructure story. Why compliance gaps, not bad loans, are the real early warning sign.
Skyroot's Launch Is A Vote Of Confidence In Private Capital
Skyroot's Vikram-1 makes India the third country to reach orbit via private enterprise, reviving the case for trusting private capital more broadly.
India’s Data Centre Demand Curve is in California. The Debt Lives Here.
India's speculative AI boom runs on local bank debt, wagering the system on unsigned California demand.
India’s Export Slump Has A Climate Tech Fix Hiding In Plain Sight
A regulatory reset on emissions monitoring technology could transform India from a captive market for Western standards into a global exporter of climate tech and generate the labour-intensive manufacturing jobs the economy urgently needs.
