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Saturday, February 21, 2026
TopicEmerging markets

Topic: emerging markets

Global media on India’s potential AI revolution & investors making same mistakes in China, India

In other reports, the Economist highlights two Indian start-ups, Byju's and Swiggy, and their trajectories.

India must account for its growing emissions. No more hiding behind other countries

The developing world is not a monolith—there’s a growing risk of new fracture lines due to vastly divergent emissions and economic trajectories. India needs a shift in perspective.

Record remittance is turning into a crash for emerging markets like India

As migrants workers from Asia's developing nations see opportunity drying up in job market, they are sending money home in advance of their own return.

Saving the planet doesn’t mean killing economic growth

Cheap renewable energy means that poor countries will be able to follow a different, cleaner path to industrialisation without sacrificing living standards.

Time to support rupee as overvaluation argument is seen to be easing

There are dangers in using the overvaluation argument to not support the rupee when it is hitting multiple lows, experts say.

Record-low Rupee puts RBI under pressure to step in

Though RBI has raised interest rates twice since June and depleted billions of dollars to boost the currency, it has not been successful.

Delay in selling Essar should be a wake-up call for India’s bankruptcy process

What should’ve been simple question of deciding who’s willing to shell out the most for a prized asset has become a complex debate.

Rupee crashes to 72 per dollar as India scrambles to halt fall

The currency has set a string of record lows, shadowing India’s optimistic world-beating economic growth.

Rupee drops past 71 to a dollar, biggest monthly fall in 3 years

With weakening developing-market currencies and elevated oil prices, rupee has fallen by over 10% this year, making it Asia’s worst performer.

World’s biggest nationwide toilet building campaign is creating new markets in India

The campaign to promote latrines has resulted in a market for toilet-related products and services predicted to double to $62 billion by 2021.

On Camera

Cautious optimism — India’s new relationship with Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh

Both Bangladesh and India will have to work together to repair the damage done during the Yunus administration.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.