Economics
Trade, fiscal policy, banking, agriculture and economic indicators
Economics will give way to politics and security in how nations make choices, Jaishankar says
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, speaking at the Global Economic Cooperation Conference in Mumbai (February 17, 2026), warned that the global order i...
India-EU trade pact fuels Air India, Lufthansa partnership expansion
Following the conclusion of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement on January 27, 2026, Air India and the Lufthansa Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (Mo...
India AI Summit 2026 Day 1 highlights: PM Modi inaugurates India AI Impact Summit 2026
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 was held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 16–21 February 2026, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Delegations fr...
India-US deal: Pulses off the factsheet but on the table
India's Agriculture Minister held discussions with US counterparts on including pulses, cotton, and apples as import items under the India-US interim trade d...
Amit Shah chairs Manthan meeting to boost cooperative reforms and rural economy
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah chaired the 'Manthan' meeting of Cooperation Ministers from all States and Union Territories on February 17, 20...
India’s data centre boom raises concerns over power supply and grid capacity
India's data centre capacity reached approximately 1,500 MW by end of 2025 and is projected to expand six-fold to 8–10 GW by 2030, placing enormous and conce...
Isolated surges, broader calm: Decoding the first month of India's CPI reset
India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released the first Consumer Price Index (CPI) data under the new base year 2024, replacin...
India’s cotton imports touch $1.79 billion in April-January
India's cotton imports for the April–January period of FY2025-26 reached $1.79 billion (Rs 15,857 crore), an increase of 81% over the corresponding period of...
India needs to embrace new tech, AI can save ₹20,000 cr in cargo handling: EAC-PM member
Gourav Vallabh, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), stated that adopting artificial intelligence in port cargo handling...
India’s spice exporters to meet in Kochi amid tariff uncertainty and stricter residue norms
Indian spice exporters gathered in Kochi for the International Spice Conference 2026, recalibrating their strategies in response to two converging challenges...
Gold, silver import surge pushes India’s January trade deficit to 3-month high of $34.68 billion
India's merchandise trade deficit widened to $34.68 billion in January 2026, the highest in three months, up sharply from $25.04 billion in December 2025. Go...
Tamil Nadu FM presents interim budget, attacks Centre for ‘artificially inflating’ state’s debt
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu presented the state's interim budget on February 17, 2026, using it as a platform to challenge Centre-state fi...
Adani to invest $100 billion in AI data centres by 2035
The Adani Group announced plans to invest $100 billion in AI data centres across India by 2035, with the investment expected to catalyse an additional $150 b...
Weather extremes continue to hit saffron production despite revival push in J&K
Agriculture experts have flagged that extreme weather events continue to severely impact saffron cultivation in Jammu and Kashmir, undermining government rev...
Kerala CM flags fiscal concerns, calls for fair federalism
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan publicly raised concerns about what he termed unfair intergovernmental fiscal arrangements, highlighting the state's s...
India seeks new steel export markets in Middle East and Asia to offset EU carbon tax impact: Report
India's steel industry — the world's second-largest crude steel producer — is actively targeting new export markets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia to ...
Cash craze: Currency in circulation touches record Rs 40 lakh crore
Currency in circulation (CIC) in India reached an all-time high of Rs 40 lakh crore by end-January 2026, growing 11.1% year-on-year, up from 5.3% growth a ye...
India’s next big power move is set to unfold in the Bay of Bengal
India is set to launch construction on the Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure project after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) cleared it, signaling Ind...
‘India offers limited farm quotas in US trade deal’
India has offered tariff-rate quotas for most agricultural products in its proposed interim trade agreement with the United States, with officials stating th...
Indian rice exporter seals 5,000-tonne US deal: IREF
A member company of the Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF) finalized a commercial deal to export 5,000 tonnes of premium basmati rice to the United Stat...