Once upon a time, global investing was a niche pursuit for a small and sophisticated group of Indian investors. Exposure to overseas markets was largely the preserve of ultra-high-net-worth families, multinational treasuries, and institutions with the scale, patience, and compliance bandwidth to navigate layers of regulation. For most individuals and family offices, international diversification was […]
For most of independent India’s history, nuclear power has occupied a singular place in the country’s development story. Neither fully commercial nor merely technological, nuclear energy was treated as a sovereign capability—bound tightly to national security, scientific self-reliance, and strategic autonomy. Power generation was only one of its objectives. Control mattered as much as capacity. […]
The Supreme Court’s 2017 verdict, which held privacy to be a fundamental right, set the ball rolling for a comprehensive structure for protecting digital personal data. Eight years later on November 13, 2025, the MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) formally notified the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) rules 2025, putting India’s first comprehensive […]
After the United States imposed a steep 50 per cent tariff on Indian goods on August 27, dismay and concerns over India’s growth outlook intensified across markets, policy circles and industry. Several analysts moved swiftly to revise their projections downward, expecting GDP growth to slip closer to 6 per cent for 2025–26. The tariff shock, […]
The Amazon Moment: Context and Symbolism COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, carried a weight few climate summits have borne. Convened deep inside the Amazon rainforest—the planet’s largest carbon sink and a living symbol of both fragility and hope—the conference marked a decade since the Paris Agreement. It unfolded against a backdrop of escalating climate extremes, […]
Moody’s Ratings has delivered a cautiously optimistic assessment of India’s economic trajectory, projecting that the country will maintain growth of around 6.5 per cent through 2027. In its latest macroeconomic report titled “Global Macro 2026: India’s Growth Will Be Steady but Subdued in 2026,” the agency reiterates that India continues to defy global economic strains, […]
As India eyes its transition into the world’s third-largest economy, the government is quietly crafting an ambitious redesign of its banking landscape: the revival of public sector bank consolidation. The renewed push, coming after a six-year pause, is rooted in a long-term vision to create two Indian banking giants that can stand shoulder to shoulder […]
When negotiators left Baku after COP 29 (Conference of the Parties), the global carbon-market landscape finally had a shape. Years of wrangling over Article 6 of the Paris Agreement—the rulebook for how countries can trade verified emission reductions—had produced workable text. For India, this was the moment to move from commitment to construction. In August […]
Contrary to widespread apprehensions that India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth might falter following the steep 50 per cent tariff imposed by the United States (US) on Indian goods, the country’s growth outlook remains resilient in the near term. Most international institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have raised their […]
India has now emerged as the world’s fifth-largest aviation market. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) data revealed in that India handled 211 million passengers in 2024, an 11.1 per cent increase from the previous year, moving past Japan. Only the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and Spain are ahead of India. India’s aviation […]