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’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...
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’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...
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’...
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’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...
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...
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...
