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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicForeign Capital

Topic: Foreign Capital

India’s love-hate relationship with foreign capital holds it back. What Budget 2026 hints at

Reviewing Foreign Exchange Management rules is fine, but India needs to stop being so suspicious of foreign money to hit 10 per cent growth.

India’s financial reforms target a wave of foreign money

Up to 100% foreign ownership of insurance firms, and overhauled rules for banks, pension funds and capital markets aim to shift savings from idle assets toward equities, bonds and long-term investments.

Karnataka sees 72% decline in startup investments as funding winter looms large — Traxcn report

Total funding down from $12.2 billion in 2022 to $3.4 billion in the southern state, according to report by Market research firm Traxcn. Bengaluru alone is home to 18,000 startups.

India needs a minister of investment, not just finance

India needs to open doors to US & Japanese capital, marshal & allocate every scrap of funds prudently to break free from the lower-middle-income trap.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.