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India onion buffer stock 2026 — Rs 25/kg subsidised price vs Rs 75/kg market price gap and festive demand impact | Maction Consulting

The Government Is Selling Onions at Rs 25/kg. The Market Is Still Charging Rs 75. That Gap Is the Research Question

The Centre’s onion buffer-stock intervention, flagged as a plan back in July, is now visibly running: roughly 4,000 tonnes sold across 17 cities in the intervention’s first ten days, moved...

FADA August 2026 India car market — alternative fuels 41.95% vs petrol 40.85%, CNG driving the shift not EVs | Maction Consulting

Alternative Fuels Just Overtook Petrol in India’s Car Market — And Almost Nobody Framed It That Way

FADA’s August retail numbers, released September 7, led with a genuinely strong headline: 24.23 lakh vehicle registrations, up 17.51% year-on-year, the biggest August on record. That’s the...

UPI MDR October 2026 — 0.4% merchant discount rate launching mid-festive season, Rs 2000 threshold impact on merchant behaviour | Maction Consulting

UPI Stops Being Free for Merchants on October 15 — And It Lands Mid-Festive Season

NPCI issued a circular on September 15 that ends six years of zero-cost UPI for merchants. From October 15, a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate applies to person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000, cap...

India bank liquidity surplus ₹11 lakh crore 2026 — what it means for festive season EMI demand and consumer durables research | Maction Consulting

India’s Banks Are Sitting on a Record ₹11 Lakh Crore Surplus — Right Before Festive Season

India’s banking system is sitting on the largest cash surplus in its recorded history — roughly ₹11 lakh crore, or $115 billion, in excess rupee liquidity — and the RBI began actively draining i...

RAI festive retail recovery 2026 — 8% national growth with North South at 9% and West East at 6%, regional divergence analysis | Maction Consulting

Retail Is Recovering Ahead of Festive Season — But “Measured Recovery” Isn’t the Same Everywhere

The Retailers Association of India released its latest Business Survey this week, and the topline is genuinely encouraging: retail grew 8% year-on-year in July, with store-level demand — the RAI&#8217...

August 2026 GST collections India — 14.8% headline vs 9.3% domestic growth and 8.3% net growth after refunds | Maction Consulting

August GST Collections Rose 14.8% — But the Number Underneath It Is the One Worth Reading

India’s gross GST collections came in at ₹1,99,853 crore for August, released September 1 — a healthy-looking 14.8% jump over last year, edging right up to the ₹2 lakh crore mark. On a headline ...

India GDP Q1 FY27 — investment matched consumption at 3.95 percentage points each, what it means for brand research and consumer demand | Maction Consulting

India’s GDP Grew 7.8% Last Quarter — But the Consumer Isn’t Who Drove It This Time

India’s GDP grew 7.8% in the April-June quarter, comfortably beating the RBI’s own 7% forecast, and most of the coverage this week has understandably led with that headline number. The det...

Quick commerce as a product launch channel for D2C brands in India — Blinkit Zepto Swiggy Instamart festive season 2026 | Maction Consulting

Quick Commerce Isn’t Just Fast Delivery Anymore — It’s Where D2C Brands Are Launching Products

A wave of Indian D2C startups is using this festive season to launch new products — not on their own websites, not through a traditional retail rollout, but directly on Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamar...

India calibrated consumption 2026 — Deloitte Consumer Signals data on spending intent, financial wellbeing, and brand research implications | Maction Consulting

Calibrated Consumption”: Why the Indian Consumer Isn’t Cutting Back — Just Getting Pickier

Deloitte’s latest Consumer Signals India report has put a name to something a lot of category-level research has been circling around for a while without quite pinning down: “calibrated co...