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India’s fuel story shouldn’t come at the cost of food security

By optimising sequencing, the 20 per cent blending target ceases to be a latent vulnerability and becomes what it was always meant to be: a sustainable advancement on both fronts.

How the Strait of Hormuz oil crisis is really going to cost India

The reason we’re not talking about the cost of an oil barrel yet isn’t that we paid for it; rather, someone else paid for it on our behalf and hasn’t sent us the bill yet.

China’s subsidy machine has broken global trade. India shouldn’t copy it

If India is committed to being a manufacturing alternative to China, it must first ensure that the competition it enters is transparent, measurable, and governed by universally applicable rules.

Kerala had a cushion that was hiding its fiscal crisis. UDF’s white paper uncovers it

One figure from the UDF's white paper warrants significant attention. No, it’s not the headline debt figure.

There’s a problem with UP’s trillion-dollar economy dream

The distinction often overlooked in headline figures is what we economists call the difference between growth and structural transformation.

The rupee does not need a defender. It needs an economy worth defending

RBI had expended more than $30 billion in three months in an attempt to stabilise the rupee, yet the currency still reached an unprecedented low of Rs 96.91.

How budgets made investing in India unaffordable for middle-class savers

India’s inability to channel its domestic household savings into productive financial assets renders it perpetually susceptible to external economic vulnerabilities.

3 things Indians should know about PM Modi’s austerity appeal

By encouraging citizens to work from home or carpool, PM Narendra Modi is not idealising the pandemic. He is urging Indians to undertake actions that policy cannot swiftly achieve.

Is UAE abandoning economic logic by extracting more oil? It’s reacting to a big industry shift

The UAE’s decision alters oil’s future trajectory. Rather than a gradual decline dictated by scarcity, there may be a phase of heightened production, followed by abrupt adjustments.

India’s east coast handles a higher volume. But the west coast has better economic outcome

The ability to bridge this gap will be crucial in determining whether India’s coastline serves as a mere boundary or acts as a catalyst of economic growth.

On Camera

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Gorkha recruitment rests with Nepal, Agnipath only route to join Indian Army, says ex-CDS Chauhan

Recruitment of Nepali Gorkhas into Indian Army is on hold since 2022 with Nepal viewing four-yr tenure of Agnipath scheme, among others, as inconsistent with historical frameworks.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.