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Mumbai Chases Vanity Projects While Basic Infrastructure Kills
As the monsoon season arrives, predictably intense, though somehow always treated as a surprise by city officials, Mumbai is once again buckling under the weight of misplaced priorities.
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.
Adani And UltraTech’s Entry Raises Stakes for India’s Cable Makers
While industry incumbents aren’t panicking yet, the pricing freedom they’ve so far enjoyed could come under pressure.
India's Tyre Industry Braces For Margin Pain Despite Demand Hope
Rising raw material costs are squeezing tyre makers' margins, even as industry sees demand staying resilient through FY27.
India’s Shift To Untested VB-G RAM G Could Strip Vital Rural Safety Net
India is replacing MGNREGS with a rural jobs scheme just as weak rains threaten incomes and livelihoods.
From Oil Shocks To Water Limits, Scarcity Must Be The Norm
Oil markets shrug off renewed US-Iran strikes, but India's water crisis exposes the real limits of resilience in an age of permanent scarcity.
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.
Does Amazon Have A Real Shot At Shaking Up Quick Commerce?
Amazon shut down Amazon Food in 2022. Three years later, it is back with a bigger ambition and a harder challenge.
India's FMCG Giants Face A Cautious Consumer Mood Shift
Higher fuel and LPG costs are changing how Indian households spend, forcing tougher choices daily across categories now.
The Rs 15 Lakh Crore Mystery Inside Rajesh Exports' Global Revenue Machine
SEBI says Rajesh Exports reported Rs 15 lakh crore of subsidiary revenue that could not be reconciled with the audited accounts of its Swiss refining business, raising one of the biggest corporate-governance questions in recent Indian market history.
India’s Financial Markets Miss Their 1990s Architects
We have inherited a world-class financial infrastructure, but the visionary institution builders who created it have yet to be replaced.
Built On Credit: Unpaid Government Bills Are Squeezing India's EPC Contractors
Empty pockets despite record order books mean that the infrastructure boom is running on contractor credit.
