Economy GS3
- Edible-oil prices hit a 3.5-year high as Indonesia’s B50 mandate diverts palm oil
9 October 2026 New Delhi, October 8. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 136 points in September, its highest since November 2022 (base 2014-16 = 100), and its…
- GST Council removes officers’ arrest power, lifts prosecution threshold to ₹5 crore, speeds refunds
9 October 2026 New Delhi, October 8. The 57th GST Council, meeting after 13 months, recommended removing GST officers’ power to arrest before prosecution and…
- GST Fitment Committee Proposes 18% Tax on NBFC Services to Banks in Co-Lending
8 October 2026 New Delhi. The fitment committee of officials under the GST Council has decided that services provided by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to…
- RBI Raises Repo Rate to 5.50%, Its First Hike Since February 2023
8 October 2026 Mumbai. Moving from forecast to decision, the Monetary Policy Committee on October 7 unanimously raised the repo rate, at which the RBI lends…
- ₹10,000-Crore SME Growth Fund to Supply Patient Equity to Growing Manufacturers
7 October 2026 New Delhi. The Union Cabinet on Tuesday, October 6, approved the Finance Ministry’s proposal to commit ₹10,000 crore to a Small and Medium…
- Cabinet Approves ITLA to Plan Rail, Road, Ports and Air as One Network
7 October 2026 New Delhi. The Union Cabinet on Tuesday, October 6, approved a Special Purpose Vehicle, the Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA), as the…
- Centre Notifies 375 Permissible Works Under VB-G RAM G, Up from 266
6 October 2026 New Delhi. Per a PIB release of 6 October 2026, the Ministry of Rural Development has notified a Schedule of 375 permissible works under the Viksit…
- Mining Tax Curbs Split Mineral States Along Lines of Dependence and Politics
6 October 2026 New Delhi. A Hindu explainer by Safira Hussain (Lokniti-CSDS) and Sanjay Kumar maps State reactions to the Mines and Minerals (Development and…
- India–US Trade Talks Hit a “Plateau” as Tariffs Are “Weaponised”; EU FTA in December
6 October 2026 New Delhi. Speaking at the Munich Leaders Meeting on Monday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the India–US talks have reached “a plateau…
- ITAT Delhi Spares Irish Company Fireeye from Tax on an Indirect Share Transfer, Narrowing Tiger Global
5 October 2026 Mumbai. The Delhi Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), a quasi-judicial body, in an order released on September 30, exempted the Irish…
- RBI’s MPC Meets October 5–7 With ET Poll Expecting a 25 bp Hike to 5.50%
5 October 2026 Mumbai. The Reserve Bank of India’s six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) begins a three-day meeting on Monday, October 5, with its decision due…
- GST Council on October 7 to Consider Dropping Arrest Powers and Unlocking Blocked Input Tax Credit
5 October 2026 New Delhi. The GST Council meets on Wednesday, October 7, to consider a “broad overhaul” of GST procedure, The Economic Times reports. These are…
- First District-Level ASUSE Estimates Show Informal Enterprises Clustered With Wide Productivity Gaps
3 October 2026 New Delhi. Two MoSPI officials of the Enterprise Survey Division, Soumya Chakraborty and Sonakhya Samaddar, write in The Economic Times on October 3…
- Forex Reserves Fall $38 Billion in Three Weeks as RBI Unwinds Its Forward Book
3 October 2026 Mumbai/New Delhi. India’s foreign exchange reserves fell $18.343 billion in the week to September 25 to $747.557 billion, the third weekly fall in a…
- GST from Imports Reaches Record 32.2% Share as Domestic Share Falls to 67.8%
2 October 2026 New Delhi. India’s gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue rose 14.7% to ₹2.03 lakh crore in September 2026, The Hindu reports; The Economic Times…
- RBI Lets Mutual Funds, Insurers and Pension Funds Take One-Time Approval for 10% Bank Stakes
2 October 2026 Mumbai. The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday, October 1, published final guidelines letting mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds take…
- Cabinet clears Green Energy Corridor Phase III: ₹1.86 lakh crore for 135 GW with batteries
1 October 2026 New Delhi. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday, September 30, approved the third phase of the Green Energy Corridor (GEC-III), with a project outlay of…
- Ten months after the Labour Codes took effect, only 10 States and UTs have notified rules
1 October 2026 New Delhi. Over 10 months after the four Labour Codes came into force, only 10 States and Union Territories have notified rules under at least one of…
- Annual Survey of Industries 2024-25: factories add value and workers, but wages lag
1 October 2026 New Delhi. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2024-25 on Wednesday,…
- ₹1 Lakh Crore RDI Fund Stalls as TDB Stops Applications, Awaiting DST’s Money
30 September 2026 New Delhi. The Technology Development Board (TDB), a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), posted a notice on…
- West Asia War’s Bill for India: Crude Above $108, Russian Imports at Five-Month Low, Diesel Rationed
29 September 2026 New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday rejected Iran’s proposal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the…
- CAG Finds Odisha’s Mineral Foundations Spent ₹2,578.73 Crore Under a Category the Rules Never Created
29 September 2026 Bhubaneswar. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found irregularities in how District Mineral Foundation (DMF) funds, meant for…
- Small-Savings Inflows Jump 56% as the 10-Year Bond Yield Hits a Two-Year High of 7.19%
29 September 2026 New Delhi and Mumbai. Net collections in small savings schemes such as the Public Provident Fund (PPF), Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana and senior citizens’…
- Industrial Output Grows 8% in August on the New 2022-23 Base, but Consumer Non-Durables Lag
29 September 2026 New Delhi. India’s industrial production grew 8% year-on-year in August 2026, up from 7.4% in July, according to Index of Industrial Production (IIP)…
- Supreme Court Refuses to Stay 0.4% UPI Charge, Asks the Centre What Its Legal Character Is
29 September 2026 New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Monday, September 28, refused to stay the Centre’s decision to levy a merchant discount rate (MDR) of 0.4% on…
- Morbi Farmers Reject 200%-and-30% Compensation for Transmission Towers as Agri-PV and Grid Stability Enter the 500 GW Debate
28 September 2026 Morbi, Gujarat. Farmers in Morbi district are protesting against how they are compensated when high-voltage transmission lines cross their fields,…
- New GDP Series Splits Multi-Activity Firms by MGT-7 Data and Counts Rooftop Solar and Government Housing
28 September 2026 New Delhi. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s (MoSPI) ‘Sources and Methods’ document for the new GDP series, released last…
- IRDAI Chairman Says Commission Caps Could Start January or April 2027; Distributor Stocks Fall Up to 36%
28 September 2026 Mumbai. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) expects insurers to pass on the savings from lower distribution…
- RBI Writes Twice to Tata Sons for a Listing Timeline as Groups Rejig Books to Escape NBFC Rules
28 September 2026 Mumbai. The Reserve Bank of India has written to Tata Sons twice since September 11 asking how the Tata Group’s holding company plans to meet the…
- Four Ports Named India’s First ‘Mega Ports’; NHAI Codifies Design for 50,000-km Expressway Network
26 September 2026 New Delhi, September 25. The Centre has notified four “mega ports”, a first-of-its-kind classification for the sector, The Economic Times reports. In…
- DPIIT Revisits a Dedicated Trade Secrets Law, Weighing Whistleblower Protection Against Compliance Burden
26 September 2026 New Delhi, September 25. India will soon begin consultations with industry, including start-ups, on provisions to protect whistleblowers and enforce…
- Centre Trims FY27 Borrowing to ₹15.99 Lakh Crore as RBI Flags War-Driven Inflation Risk
26 September 2026 New Delhi and Mumbai, September 25. The Centre has cut its gross market borrowing for 2026-27 to ₹15.99 lakh crore, ₹1.2 lakh crore below the budget…
- Finance Ministry Sends New Model Investment Treaty to Cabinet, Keeping Taxation Outside Investor–State Arbitration
26 September 2026 New Delhi, September 25. The Ministry of Finance has finished reviewing India’s model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and sent it to the Cabinet…
- Oil Companies Lose ₹530 Crore Daily as Crude Basket Hits $117.4 With Pump Prices Frozen
25 September 2026 New Delhi. The three public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs), Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum, are losing about ₹530 crore…
- Beyond SWIFT: CIPS, SPFS and mBridge Grow While India Settles Russia Trade in Rupees
25 September 2026 New Delhi. An explainer by G. R. Rajeev in The Hindu asks why countries are looking beyond SWIFT, the Belgium-based network through which banks send…
- Make in India at Twelve: Manufacturing Near 15% of GVA, Domestic Chips Mandated for Smart Meters
25 September 2026 New Delhi. Twelve years after Make in India was launched on September 25, 2014, an analysis in The Hindu of 12 metrics covering growth, investment,…
- Odisha Has Not Counted What Section 9D of the Amended Mines Act Will Cost It
25 September 2026 Bhubaneswar. On Thursday, September 24, legislators across parties put as many as 13 written questions to the Odisha government about the Mines and…
- HC Asks Why ESMA Is Not Invoked Against Delhi Bus Drivers; Bank Unions Call Three-Day Strike
24 September 2026 New Delhi. In the second week of a strike by contractual bus drivers, at least 37 drivers at the Delhi Transport Corporation’s (DTC) Wazirabad depot…
- PM’s Principal Secretary Names Four Risks — Weaponised Supply Chains, Import Dependence, Fickle Capital and AI
24 September 2026 Mumbai. India must prepare its economy to manage the risks of geopolitical upheaval, Pramod Kumar Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister,…
- IRDAI Proposes Product- and Channel-Wise Commission Caps and a Glide Path to Lower Expense Limits
24 September 2026 Mumbai. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) on Wednesday, September 23, proposed a major overhaul of how insurers pay…
- Input QCOs Tied to 47.6% Profitability Fall in Small Firms as 600-Plus Products Await Reassessment
24 September 2026 New Delhi. India’s mandatory product-standards regime needs a second round of reform aimed at inputs, argue Prerna Prabhakar, Fellow at the Centre…
- India–EU FTA to Be Signed in Brussels on December 16, Without Member-State Ratification
24 September 2026 New Delhi. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU) will be signed on December 16, two diplomatic sources have…
- Centre Warns States of Ageing, AI and Climate Strains as Mumbai Plans India’s Largest Municipal Bond
23 September 2026 New Delhi and Mumbai. States must overhaul spending priorities and strengthen finances as ageing, rapid technological change, urbanisation and…
- Mines Secretary Warns Against ‘Squatting’ on Mining Blocks as Lithium-Nickel Processing Scheme Nears Launch
23 September 2026 New Delhi. Some miners hold on to their blocks without starting operations on time, a practice Union Mines Secretary Keshav Chandra called…
- Indian Council of Arbitration Chief Urges India to Write Commercial Arbitration Into New Trade Treaties
23 September 2026 New Delhi. India’s recent trade and investment treaties should be written so that they strengthen commercial arbitration at home, argues Arun Chawla,…
- India–U.S. Trade Deal Stalls Until Washington’s Section 301 Probes Re-Tariff India’s Competitors
23 September 2026 Washington DC. India and the U.S. are unlikely to sign a trade deal until Washington launches and concludes fresh ‘Section 301 investigations’ and…
- Rangarajan and Shanmugam: Tamil Nadu’s $1.5 Trillion Target Needs 12.2% Real Growth; 2038-39 More Likely
22 September 2026 Tamil Nadu. In an op-ed in The Hindu, C. Rangarajan, former Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and former RBI Governor,…
- Nothing to Spin Off CMF as Majority-Indian Company as ₹62,500 Crore Mobile Scheme Rewards Indian Brands
22 September 2026 New Delhi. Carl Pei, co-founder and CEO of London-based smartphone maker Nothing, said in an open letter and a post on X that the company will spin…
- MoSPI Sources and Methods Report: New GDP Series Uses Double Deflation in 28 of 30 Manufacturing Categories
22 September 2026 New Delhi. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Monday, September 21, released ‘Sources and Methods for Compilation of…
- RBI Swap Window Draws $143.6 Billion, Led by $133 Billion FCNR(B) Deposits; Op-ed Questions the Cost
22 September 2026 Mumbai. Data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday, September 21, show that its special US dollar–rupee swap facility attracted…
- India–New Zealand FTA Enters into Force on October 20 with Zero Duty for All Indian Exports
22 September 2026 New Delhi. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and New Zealand will come into force on October 20, 2026, Union Commerce and Industry…
- West Bengal’s New Government Clears Land for 33 Industries, Weighs Land Pooling Over Acquisition
21 September 2026 West Bengal. Under a new BJP government, West Bengal is once again debating how to assemble land for industry, writes Subhamoy Maitra in The Economic…
- India’s Permanent-Magnet Market Invisible in Statistics as Imports Dwarf ₹750-Crore Domestic Estimate, NCAER Economists Warn
21 September 2026 New Delhi. Three economists from the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) — Suvajit Banerjee, Sovini Mondal and Sanjib Pohit, of its…
- Imports From China Rise 71% as Electronics Assembly Deepens India’s Dependence on Chinese Components
21 September 2026 New Delhi. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Delhi on September 12,…
- Real Policy Rate Nears Zero as August CPI Inflation Hits 4.82% With Repo at 5.25%
21 September 2026 New Delhi. With the Reserve Bank of India holding its repo rate — the rate at which it lends overnight to banks — at 5.25%, Consumer Price Index…
- Tata Trusts Declares Chandrasekaran’s Reappointment Void, Says Casting Vote Cannot Override Nominee-Director Veto
21 September 2026 Mumbai. Tata Trusts, chaired by Noel Tata and the majority owner of Tata Sons with about 66% of its shares, said in a statement on Sunday, September…
- India's First District-Level Unemployment Map — and What It Shows About Young People Not in Work or Education
19 September 2026 Unemployment rates ranged between 0.5% and 5.5% in 77.8% of districts in India, according to data released by the statistics ministry, marking the…
- RBI Orders Tata Sons Towards Listing, and the Boardroom Splits Over It
19 September 2026 Tata Sons has begun preparing for a public listing after the Reserve Bank of India directed it to do so, with February 2027 emerging as an…
- Moody's Raises India's FY27 Growth Forecast to 7% While the War Pushes Crude Past $100
19 September 2026 Moody's Ratings raised India's FY27 economic growth forecast to 7% from 6% previously, citing the economy's resilience to the ongoing conflict in…
- UPI Begins to Charge — and Merchants Have Already Found the Workaround
19 September 2026 From 15 October, regular merchant payments above ₹2,000 will attract a 0.4% merchant discount rate, capped at ₹300 for transactions of ₹75,000 or…
- EPFO Wage Ceiling Raised From ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 After Twelve Years
19 September 2026 The Union Cabinet approved raising the wage ceiling for mandatory coverage under the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000…
- China's Rare-Earth Grip and India's ₹73 Billion Answer
18 September 2026 In an Economic Times opinion piece, Nilanjan Banik, head of the Economic Policy Centre at Mahindra University, Hyderabad, wrote that in FY26 China…
- 'All-Out War at Tata': RBI's Listing Directive Meets a Divided Board
18 September 2026 A pitched battle for control over India's largest business conglomerate broke out on Thursday, with the chairman of its majority shareholder publicly…
- EPFO Wage Ceiling Raised to ₹25,000, and Random Checks Ordered in the New Rural Jobs Scheme
18 September 2026 The Ministry of Labour and Employment on Thursday notified the higher wage ceiling of ₹25,000 per month under the Employees' Provident Fund…
- India Secures 2.8 Million Tonne Steel Quota From the EU — but CBAM Still Applies
18 September 2026 India has secured a country-specific tariff-rate quota of 1.9 million tonnes annually for steel exports to the European Union, and the government…
- UPI Merchant Fee: The Final Framework, and Who Actually Pays and Gains
18 September 2026 The National Payments Corporation of India released its circular on charges to be levied on certain UPI payments from October 15. Per The Hindu's…
- Fed Raises Rates to 3.75-4% in a Unanimous Vote; RBI's October Hike Now Looks Likely
18 September 2026 The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, lifting the target range of the federal funds rate to 3.75-4%, its first rate hike…
- Tata Sons Board Meets Amid RBI Listing Directive and Chandrasekaran Reappointment Questions
17 September 2026 The Tata Sons board convened for a Thursday meeting carrying two contentious matters: whether to formally challenge the Reserve Bank of India's…
- UPI Merchant Fee Turns Political — 'Prostration Before Trump' vs 'RSS Affiliate Also Objects'
17 September 2026 The introduction of a proposed 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions above ₹2,000 has become a full-blown political controversy.…
- US Federal Reserve Hikes Rates for the First Time in Three Years
17 September 2026 The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday for the first time since 2023, in an effort to quell persistently high…
- Rising Rates on Two Fronts — Domestic Inflation Meets Global Bond-Market Stress
16 September 2026 India's retail inflation rose to an eight-month high of 4.82% in August (wholesale inflation to 9.92%), driven by a 19% month-on-month jump in sugar…
- UPI Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) Returns — Rebalancing Digital-Payments Economics
16 September 2026 The National Payments Corporation of India has introduced a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate on UPI merchant (P2M) transactions above ₹2,000, capped at…
- August Goods Exports Soar 26% — India's Trade Deficit Narrows
16 September 2026 India's goods exports jumped 26% in August, driven by a sharp rise in shipments to the US (up over 21% to $8.3 billion) despite Washington's tariffs…