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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicSupply-demand

Topic: supply-demand

India’s service sector PMI sees marginal fall in November; hiring grew at fastest pace since 2005

Udit Hinduja -
Report released Wednesday by HSBC India Services Purchasing Managers' Index highlighted service providers in India attribute strong performance to growth in demand & new business gains.

Oil prices fall as concerns over recession overshadow tightening supply

Elizabeth Low -
West Texas Intermediate fell to trade near $111 a barrel after adding around 7% over the previous three sessions.

October festival demand boosts Indian economy’s ‘animal spirits’, recession could end in Q4

Anirban Nag -
Demand during the festival season helped boost 3 of 8 high-frequency indicators tracked by Bloomberg News, while 3 were unchanged and 2 deteriorated.

India has people but its economy needs consumers

Andy Mukherjee -
In an emerging market, confidence of entrepreneurs comes from knowing that producers can sell what they make. An undemanding India hurts everyone.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

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

Vaibhav Pant -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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