India Textile Exports 2025: When the world slapped 25–45% tariffs, when Bangladesh factories burned and Vietnam flooded markets with dirt-cheap cotton, India’s looms refused to surrender. $37,755 million – that’s the thunderous victory song of India’s textile & apparel exports (including handicrafts) in FY 2024–25, a proud 5.2% growth that silenced every doomsday prediction. Yet…
Gadkari’s Ethanol Mega-Plan: Does India have the agricultural might to slash its crippling energy import bill of ₹22 Lakh Crores? Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has launched a powerful, statistics-driven challenge to the nation, revealing that India remains dangerously reliant on foreign sources for 87% of its energy needs. The financial haemorrhage, which funnels this colossal…
What if $17.5 billion could catapult 20 million Indians from digital deserts to AI deserts – hyperscaling data centers, sovereign clouds, and skilling waves by 2030 – while Microsoft’s $3 billion January pledge morphs into Asia’s largest bet, announced December 9 post-Nadella-Modi huddle? That’s the neural network nerve of Microsoft India AI investment 2025, with…
What if $35 billion could catapult 15 million MSMEs from local lanes to global lanes – digitizing dreams with AI tools, spawning 1 million jobs, and quadrupling exports to $80 billion by 2030 – while Amazon’s $40 billion legacy already powers 3.8 million livelihoods? That’s the seismic splash of Amazon India investment 2030, unveiled December…
What if a Rs 50 lakh grant could spin a Surat startup’s smart geotextile into a Rs 1,000 crore global game-changer – fortifying roads, shielding soldiers, and sustaining farms? That’s the threadbare triumph of GREAT Technical Textiles Scheme 2025, unveiled December 8 under National Technical Textiles Mission, approving 24 innovators with Rs 12.16 crore (Rs…
Trump Indian Rice Dumping 2025: What if a biryani bowl in Brooklyn could spark a bilateral brawl – Trump’s December 8 White House vow to “take care” of India’s “dumping” rice with fresh tariffs, amid a $12 billion farmer bailout, igniting cries from Louisiana lobbies that premium basmati undercuts their yields? But exporters fire back:…
What if a Surat saree or Coimbatore pump could conquer Paris and Pittsburgh – powered by a government mission that just catapulted MSME exports from 45.74% to a staggering 48.55% in a single year? That’s the thunderous reality of MSME export surge 2025 announced December 8, with Export Promotion Mission (EPM), GST rationalisation, and ₹1…
Imagine a Punjab farmer, once drowning in Rs 50,000 chemical debts that poisoned his lungs and legacy, now reaping 20% more with cow dung and neem – courtesy of National Mission on Natural Farming’s 17,639 clusters blooming across 623 districts. But here’s the curiosity gap: With 8.79 lakh trained in Jeevamrut’s alchemy, why do 70%…
The invisible economy of India, powered by an estimated 30 million traditional artisans and craftspersons, contributes less than 2% to the nation’s GDP – a shocking claim that should ignite national urgency. While the headlines today scream of stock market highs and technological leaps, the very foundation of Indian identity, its priceless artistic heritage, has…
Rupee at New Record Low — The Indian currency plunged to a fresh lifetime low of 89.79 against the US dollar on December 1, despite India’s exceptionally strong GDP growth print. Persistent foreign fund outflows, heavy dollar demand from importers, rising crude oil prices, and the prolonged delay in the India–US trade deal created a…