The planned “No UPI Day” protest for October 2 — which we flagged two weeks ago as the kind of merchant-behaviour question standard trackers don’t capture — just played out in a genu...
Brent crude crossed $107 a barrel this weekend, and the rupee slipped past 96 to the dollar on September 28 for the first time — two numbers moving together, twelve days before Navratri begins. The pr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
