Image for representative purposes only. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India has added 52,537 megawatts (MW) of electricity generation from all sources combined in the ongoing financial year until January 31, the Union Ministry of Power said on Sunday (February 15, 2026). This translates to an addition of more than 11% to the total installed…
Following concerns in the Indian textile and garment industry, which is the largest employment generator after agriculture, Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said that India is to have the same facility as Bangladesh, and that Indian garment and textile exporters will also benefit. File picture used for representation only. | Photo Credit:…
The story so far: The Interim Agreement between India and the U.S. on trade has buoyed investor sentiment in India, especially because of the prospect of tariffs on Indian exports to the U.S. reducing to 18%. However, since the deal was announced through a joint statement on February 7, the contours of what it could include have…
Sacks of harvested wheat are seen at a grain market in Gaggarpur village, Haryana. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The government on Friday (February 13, 2026) allowed export of 25 lakh tonnes of wheat, along with an additional 5 lakh tonnes of wheat products and sugar each, to stabilise domestic markets and ensure remunerative returns…
Leaders from several farmer unions meeting Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over the U.S.-India trade deal at Parliament complext, in New Delhi on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (February 14, 2026) accused the government of cheating cotton farmers and textile exporters in the country over…
Despite all the fanfare and furore in Parliament, it may be premature to celebrate or criticise the India-United States Bilateral Trade Agreement, simply because it has not yet been forged. Yet, last week’s announcement of a “Framework for an Interim Agreement on reciprocal trade” (where the agreement itself is expected to be announced in the…
The new series of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), released on Thursday, has addressed the many shortcomings of the previous series. The new series has a base year of 2024, and is pegged to consumption patterns from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24. The previous series had a base year of 2012 and was based…
The price of petrol sold in India has been reduced 1.9% since June 2022, even as the price of oil has fallen 41.5% since then, an analysis by The Hindu of official data shows. Data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) shows that the price of oil, as captured by the Indian basket…
India needs to address its structural cost disadvantages, leverage free trade agreements (FTAs) and promote the manufacturing of strategic components to boost its electronics goods exports, according to NITI Aayog’s Trade Watch Quarterly report released on Friday (February 13, 2026). The electronics segment represents a $4.6 trillion global market. However, India’s share in this market…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in Lok Sabha during the Budget Session, in New Delhi February 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Anand Sharma slammed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday (February 12, 2026) for criticising India’s stand at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali in 2013 during the UPA rule and…
