Exam-relevant current affairs and explainers for Economy.
Three final Western DFC sections connect the freight network directly to JNPT, completing a two-decade infrastructure project with major implications for logistics and trade.
Global Fintech Fest 2026 puts emerging technologies at the centre of the next phase of digital finance, with inclusion and trust as the policy test.
India’s latest sowing data show broad crop coverage holding up, even as rice acreage remains below last year’s level.
The scheme is designed to turn domestic coal into products such as syngas, urea and synthetic gas while reducing selected import dependencies.
The FY 2026–27 agreement is a reminder that food security depends not only on procurement, but also on storage, movement, data and institutional performance.
The latest approvals take cumulative sanctioned investment to ₹2,171 crore across nine ITI clusters, with industry participation built into the model.
State-run banks were seen selling dollars as the rupee weakened, highlighting how oil and capital flows feed into exchange-rate management.
Large foreign-currency deposits have strengthened funding, but interest payments can still create exchange-rate exposure if banks leave them unhedged.
August exports rose 25% year on year and imports 28.2%, giving policymakers another signal about Chinese demand, industrial strength and global imbalances.
Attacks across Saudi cities injured dozens and disrupted energy facilities, adding another layer of risk to already elevated crude prices.
The shift from less than 10% to over 50% in six months shows how the Hormuz crisis is rapidly rewiring India’s energy-supply geography.
East-coast port capacity and alternative energy routes are becoming strategic assets as the Strait’s vulnerability becomes an economic problem for Asia.
New Delhi is expected to raise restrictions affecting high-technology imports and Indian investment as interdependence collides with strategic distrust.
Chairman V Narayanan’s clarification separates ISRO’s public research role from the policy of expanding private participation in commercial space activity.
Post-monsoon demand is colliding with costlier coking coal even as rising imports limit how far domestic mills can push prices.
India’s new closing-auction mechanism is meant to improve price discovery, but derivatives expiry is exposing a volatility problem.
Beyond the completed freight corridor, the package combines rail capacity, tribal connectivity, highways, housing, water and a 110 MW floating-solar project.
The 28th Western Zonal Council meeting offers a useful window into how Centre-State coordination works beyond Parliament and the courts.
About 98% of the proposals cleared in principle are expected to be sourced from Indian industry, linking military modernisation with defence manufacturing policy.
NITI Aayog’s new PACT platform and Zero Emission Truck Marketplace are designed to solve a difficult problem: making clean trucking commercially scalable.
The Open API can reduce duplicate data entry for exporters and is a useful case study in digital public administration and trade facilitation.
The court quashed a student activist’s detention and ordered compensation, putting executive accountability and the right to peaceful dissent back in focus.
A record liquidity surplus has turned an obscure monetary-policy tool into a useful real-time lesson on how the RBI manages money-market conditions.
RBI data shows reserves rose for an eighth straight week, supported by strong capital inflows and recent measures to attract foreign currency.
A strong headline number has opened a deeper debate over deflators, the new GDP series, jobs and whether official growth is matching what households and businesses actually feel.
The June-quarter GDP print beat expectations. A day later, manufacturing PMI fell to 52.8, its weakest expansion in five years. Both signals matter.
Official data showed manufacturing stayed strong, while mining contracted and overall growth cooled from June’s revised pace.
The next phase of India's renewable build-out is not just about adding solar panels and turbines. It is about making clean power available when the sun is down and the wind is weak.
upGrad has acquired the edtech company in an all-stock deal. The price captures how sharply India’s pandemic-era edtech boom was repriced.
The rupee has gained despite expensive oil and weak Asian currencies, as the central bank repeatedly sells dollars after special schemes brought in more than $136 billion.
New Legal Metrology rules make IST the common reference for legal, administrative and commercial systems. The change takes effect after 180 days.
The six-month conflict has pushed diplomacy toward one of the world’s most important oil transit routes, where shipping remains well below normal.
A proposed cross-border payments connection ran into the hardest question in digital infrastructure: how much convenience is worth giving up control over financial data?
Active demand in IT services has reached about 57,000 roles, an 18-month high. Nearly 60% of the openings are for mid-senior and senior talent.
Finance Ministry data shows the scale of Tokyo’s intervention as the currency struggled near four-decade lows.
EOS-05 is designed to watch large areas for longer, changing how India can monitor weather, disasters, agriculture and the ground below.
Supplier work on the VF3, VF6 and VF7 localisation programmes has been suspended while the Vietnamese carmaker reassesses costs.
The stable outlook reflects expectations of stronger fiscal support, even as weak domestic demand and property stress remain risks.
An elevenfold expansion in nuclear capacity will require far more than reactors. India is now widening fuel relationships from Australia to Uzbekistan.
The ruling found unlawful retaliation and due-process failures in the Pentagon’s treatment of the AI company.
The exchange that sits at the centre of Indian markets has spent years trying to list itself. A Supreme Court development removes another major regulatory obstacle.
OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and others warned that AI-enabled hacking could become far more widespread in the coming months.
Traffic through the world's most important oil chokepoint remains far below normal, pushing Brent above $96 and turning a distant conflict into a direct risk for India's import bill and inflation.
ISRO says short-lived brightenings seen in ultraviolet and X-ray observations may help improve space-weather forecasting.
The next-generation observatory will study dark energy, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics from a wide-field view of the universe.
The Yash-starrer opened strongly but saw a sharp second-day drop, according to entertainment trade coverage.
The Colombo draw reduced India’s margin for error before away Tests in New Zealand and a five-match home series against Australia.
Recent signals on liquidity and rates have not always pointed in the same direction, increasing the burden on investors to infer policy intent.
Hormuz disruption keeps inflation risk elevated while Nvidia’s outlook continues to support the technology trade.
