Repo Shock: RBI's 5.5% Reality Check

After four pauses and a 125 bps cut cycle, RBI's surprise 25 bps hike to 5.5% signals that India's inflation fight is far from over despite strong gro...

Who Owns Spirit?

Supreme Court said states can regulate industrial alcohol. Now GST Council must decide if 18% GST stays or states levy excise. States lost revenue sin...

Poison Apple Of Insurance

Insurance sold ₹1.93 lakh cr premium in FY25 but penetration flat at 3.7%. FM's rebuke on surrenders forced IRDAl to propose capping commissions sympt...

Lemon Market Lives On

Twenty-five years after

Swiss Fix For TEPA

Despite EFTA FTA for a year, India's exports to Switzerland fell 22.7% in Q1 to $461 million. Now Modi and Guy Parmelin create special group to fix tr...

Hawk Time At Mint Street

Inflation at 4.82%, crude over $100, rupee at 96.30, Fed hiking - conditions ripe for RBI rate hike. After 3.5 years pause, MPC may have to follow Fe...

Don't Worship Foreign Cash

Rupee at 96.30, CAD fears return, calls for more foreign capital sops grow. Ashima Goyal argues India needs diverse ownership, not dominance - FCNR(B)...

India's Coal Clock Is Ticking

Domestic coal-based power plants saw inventory plunge 66% - from 54.9 MT in April to 18.6 MT in September 2026 - raising alarm for next summer's peak ...

GST Arrest Powers

Centre plans to remove arrest powers from GST law, shifting intentional fraud prosecution to Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The move ends a fear raj that ha...