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Why India's Medical-Device Trade Gap Has Widened Despite Years Of PLI Support
India makes what is cheap, imports what is dear, and the PLI pays to assemble boxes whose core parts are still all imported.
How India Inc Paid Three Different Bills For The Same Barrel Of Crude
A crude spike hit fuel retailers, truckers and fertiliser makers in the same quarter. Who bled, who shrugged and who is still waiting was decided by mechanism, not management.
Jal Jeevan Mission Relaunched As 2.0, But Contractors Still Steering New Bids To Central Agencies
India relaunched Jal Jeevan Mission, its rural water scheme, with fresh funding — but contractors are steering new bids toward central agencies, not states. Some now refuse state risk entirely.
India’s Mining Bill Promises States 90%. Here’s The Catch
Delhi says the states' revenue split stays the same. What changes is who writes the rules that split now depends on, and Jharkhand and Odisha are not happy about it.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
The Hi-Tech Behind India’s Diagnostic Giants’ Premium Valuations
India’s diagnostics giants are racing past routine blood tests into genomics, AI pathology and liquid biopsy, building high-tech moats that discounters cannot copy and the market is already pricing in.
India’s Private Capex Is Turning Out To Be An Adani-Ambani Show
In FY26, Adani and Reliance spent Rs 3.2 lakh crore between them. That is more than a quarter of all private investment in India, made by just two promoter-driven companies.
Why New Infrastructure Won’t Fix Mumbai’s Power Grid Problem
Replacing British-era cables and adding transmission lines won't fix Mumbai's grid. The bottleneck for clean, non-stop power is not generation, storage technology, or tariffs. It is the absence of a single buyer.
