Editorial

India’s National Statistical Office recently released updated National Accounts Statistics placing manufacturing sector Gross Value Added at ₹38.6 lakh crore for 2023-24, or 14.7 percent of GDP. When independent economists cross-checked that figure against other official data sources, they arrived at a substantially lower estimate — around ₹27.4 lakh crore — a gap of roughly […]

For decades, India has tracked its industrial output monthly through the Index of Industrial Production, while the sector that actually generates more than half the country’s Gross Value Added — services — had no equivalent high-frequency measure at all. That gap has now closed. MoSPI released its third trial round of the new Index of

The Reserve Bank of India’s Unified Lending Interface has moved well past pilot stage, now connecting 64 lenders and 136 data services, with officials pitching it as the lending-sector equivalent of UPI — a platform capable of cutting Kisan Credit Card approval times from four-to-six weeks down to as little as ten minutes by pulling

India is observing National Nutrition Week from September 1 to 7, the annual awareness campaign meant to spotlight balanced diets, maternal and infant nutrition, and the broader fight against malnutrition. It’s a worthy observance, and the government’s messaging around it — anganwadi outreach, dietary awareness drives, school-level nutrition education — reflects a genuine and long-running

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday blocked two separate protest marches in Srinagar — one by the ruling National Conference toward the BJP’s Jawahar Nagar office, another by the BJP toward the civil secretariat — with barricades stopping NC leaders including ministers and sitting MLAs near Rajbagh police station before they could even reach their

The India Meteorological Department has issued flash flood warnings across eight states and two union territories through this week, with Chhattisgarh and Odisha facing the gravest threat. Districts including Gaurela, Pendra, Marwahi, Balrampur, Surguja, Korba, Jashpur and Raipur are forecast to receive extremely heavy rainfall exceeding 204.5 mm, driven by a well-marked low-pressure system over

Buried inside the National Statistics Office’s press note on India’s 7.8 percent Q1 FY27 GDP growth is a detail more revealing than the headline number itself. Of the 7.8 percentage points of real growth, household consumption and fixed investment each contributed almost exactly 3.95 percentage points — equal to the second decimal place. Neither figure

General N.S. Raja Subramani assumed office as India’s third Chief of Defence Staff on May 31, inheriting a mandate built around theatre command reform, tri-services integration, and faster indigenous weapons induction. The Ministry of Defence’s own citation describes him as having “insightful knowledge and a deep understanding of operational dynamics on both the Western and

The India Meteorological Department’s latest bulletin forecasts fairly widespread to widespread rainfall across a broad swathe of northern and northeastern India over the coming days, with warnings extending from Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh through Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Punjab, and into eastern Uttar Pradesh, alongside isolated thunderstorm and lightning activity forecast across several of these regions into early

India’s economy grew 7.8 percent in the April-June quarter of FY 2026-27, comfortably beating the Reserve Bank of India’s own projection of 7 percent and outpacing most economist forecasts, which had clustered closer to 7-7.2 percent. It is, by any reasonable measure, a genuinely encouraging number, and it arrived under conditions that make it more