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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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Topic: GVA

India saw a resilient FY25, despite weak manufacturing. Keeping momentum will require reforms

GDP of Q4 of last fiscal grew at 7.4% year-on-year—fastest in a year & above expectations. Despite global headwinds, India is projected to grow at 6.3–6.4% in FY26.

How India’s GDP grew by 8.4% in Q3, propelled by strong performance in industrial & services sectors

And despite a 0.8% contraction in the agricultural sector, the overall Q3 performance has prompted an upward revision in full-year growth estimates to 7.6% in the 2nd Advance Estimates.

India’s GDP growth slowed to 6.3% in Q2 — why this isn’t as worrying as it sounds

While GDP growth was lower than Q1's 13.5%, economy saw an uptick on quarter-on-quarter basis driven by services sector. But contraction in manufacturing is cause for some concern.

India has too many tiny farms in agriculture and tiny firms in industry. That’s a problem

In his new book India Unlimited, economist Arvind Panagariya writes about the problem of tiny firms in India, which has reduced output per worker.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

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.