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Published on Aug 21, 2026
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Published on Aug 21, 2026
India attracts capital. Now it must build what the world pays royalties for
India has spent a decade becoming one of the world's most attractive investment destinations, with gross FDI inflows touching $81 bn in FY25. Yet, beneath the headline numbers sits an uncomfortable question: how much of the value created in India does …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right -
Published on Aug 21, 2026
India’s WTO resistance risks slowing investment in developing nations
Orlando, Florida: Not all WTO travails can be traced to the US' shortsighted opposition to the rules-based multilateral trading system. There's also India. While the US has done its best to undermine WTO through chaotic unilateral trade actions and …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right -
Published on Aug 21, 2026
The long and winding R&D: While India tracks where publicly funded research money goes, it should track what it ...
Over ₹3,000 cr. That is a conservative estimate of what India's research-funding ecosystem could be losing annually to duplicate grants alone. A 2013 US analysis, 'Same work, twice the money?' of nearly 8,60,000 funded grants estimated that …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right -
Published on 02:05 GMT
India's forgotten gourmet produce: Tellicherry pepper, Lakadong turmeric, and Kashmiri morels
This is the time of year when the moisture-laden monsoon winds blow towards India. Millennia ago, ancient traders used these winds to sail to India with ships full of gold and silver. Their goal: to take back even more precious cargo to the insatiable …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right -
Published on Aug 21, 2026
LG Electronics India bets on exports, B2B products for margin boost
Kolkata: LG Electronics India is banking on exports and business-to-business (B2B) products as the next growth engines, as its Korean parent seeks to turn India into a global manufacturing hub producing both mass-market and premium products for markets …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right -
Published on 03:33 GMT
Sambhajinagar teen, parents deaths puts spotlight on India’s rising smartphone EMI culture
The death of an 18-year-old boy and his parents in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, following a dispute reportedly linked to an iPhone EMI, has brought India’s rapidly expanding consumer-finance culture under scrutiny, as smartphones and other …
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Published on 02:05 GMT
India-Bangladesh Ganges talks continuing at technical level: MEA
New Delhi: India said on Friday that discussions on river-related issues with Bangladesh, including those concerning the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, were continuing at the technical level. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal made …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right -
Published on 02:07 GMT
ET World Leaders Forum 2026: A developed India only possible when Bihar is prosperous, Samrat Choudhary says
Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Friday said India’s development cannot be complete unless Bihar becomes prosperous, as the state seeks to diversify its economy beyond agriculture and strengthen its links with industry and technology. “A developed …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right -
Published on Aug 21, 2026
Depoliticise India's public spaces
Everything is political. In India, it's especially so. From protocols at official functions and movie plotlines, to potholes to dietary dos and don'ts, everything is swiftly drafted into the service of partisan narratives. Worst affected are public …
Source: The Economic Times - Center-right