Flipkart’s Big Billion Days and Amazon’s Great Indian Festival haven’t been officially confirmed for 2026 yet, but both platforms are expected to open within days of each other in th...
India’s trade relationship with the US has whiplashed twice in the past year. Tariffs on Indian goods hit a punishing 50% in August 2025, a February 2026 bilateral deal brought that down to 18%,...
India’s retail inflation hit 4.45% in July, released this week by the National Statistics Office — a 19-month high, and the third straight monthly acceleration. That’s the headline every o...
The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee met this week and did, on the surface, nothing — the repo rate stays at 5.25%, the stance stays neutral, all six members voted unanimously. But Governor Sanja...
India’s retail inflation crossed 4% in June for the first time in 16 months, coming in at 4.38% against economist expectations of roughly 4.3%. That single data point matters less than the traje...
Indian consumer goods manufacturers are ramping up production by as much as 30% ahead of this year’s festive season, betting on the Onam-to-Diwali window that typically delivers close to a third...
GST turned nine on July 1, and the government marked the milestone with the numbers it likes best: registered taxpayers up from 66.5 lakh in 2017 to 1.65 crore this year, gross collections that have g...
The RBI Consumer Confidence Survey — the Reserve Bank of India’s quarterly read on household sentiment across urban and rural India — quietly launched its July 2026 round earlier this month. On ...
Quick commerce vs traditional retail — it’s the debate reshaping India’s FMCG and brand strategy conversations in 2026. Ask most people in urban India whether the neighbourhood kirana stor...
EV adoption in India has a paradox at its heart: ask any urban Indian car buyer today whether they would consider an electric vehicle, and the answer is overwhelmingly positive. Surveys repeatedly sho...
