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Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Topic: Imports

India’s April services imports fall 3.1% to $13.63 billion on year, RBI data shows

According to the govt's first preliminary estimates released mid-May, April services exports stood at $30.36 billion, while services imports totalled $16.50 billion.

India’s palm oil imports jump to 1 year high in Sept as discounts widen

Boosted by strong demand ahead of the peak festival season and a steep discount to rival oils are the main reasons for the 18% jump.

Ta-ta Twix, hello Belco—Pakistan’s import ban is a cause for local chocolates to celebrate

While the import ban benefits Pakistan's local brands, some question why their foreign chocolates are being confiscated during customs checks.

Ultimate ‘sting op’ — how Indian scientists imported wasps from Africa to tackle an alien pest

The parasitoids, which arrived in a shipment from Benin last August, have been released in parts of Tamil Nadu where the Cassava Mealybug caused massive damage to tapioca crops.

As nickel prices soar due to war, here’s what Indian steel makers are doing to cushion impact

Stainless steel industry is a major importer of nickel, which has seen price spikes due to Russia-Ukraine war. Indian manufacturers have found some workarounds.

As globalisation is bombed, a ‘fortress economy’ is tempting, but India must know its limits

India can’t break free of global supply chains & will stay import-dependent for energy, weapons parts. Selective integration may work better by creating mutual interdependence.

India’s pandemic paradox: Poor pledge gold, rich buy more gold, pushing imports up by 200%

The trend of relatively well-off people buying gold comes at a time when poorer Indian households continue to pawn their meagre gold for funds. 

‘Not just minimise but eliminate’ — India tells its automakers to cut imports from China

With the transition toward EVs now inevitable, Niti Aayog Kant CEO said Indian auto manufacturers must aim to secure a strategic position in the global value chain.

India’s economic recovery is lopsided. It’s firing on one and a half cylinders

The two major engines of growth — consumption and investment, which make up more than three-fourths of the Indian economy — are yet to recover.

India’s imports from China rise despite boycott calls, pandemic. But this may not last

There has been a surge in China’s share in India’s trade basket by almost 3 percentage points for imports and 2 percentage points for exports.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.