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India’s ₹20,000 Crore Carbon Bet Is Being Misread — A Targeted Industrial Decarbonisation Push, Not a Farm Income Scheme (Yet)

Budget 2026’s “carbon credit programme” reflects a hard-nosed shift toward industrial emissions control through CCUS—but policy signalling and terminology have triggered a premature narrative around farmer-linked carbon markets.

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India’s Tech State Has Entered Its Hard Phase: Ambition Is No Longer the Constraint — Administrative Throughput Is

Parliamentary scrutiny of MeitY and UIDAI exposes the real bottleneck in India’s technology strategy: not the absence of missions, but the state’s difficulty in converting strategic intent into timely capital absorption, infrastructure build-out, and verifiable execution

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Tamil Nadu 2026: Welfare Politics Meets Fragmentation — A Dravidian System Under Structural Stress

From a stable two-party ecosystem to a fragmented, multi-pole contest — why ideology, welfare economics, leadership transitions, and fiscal constraints are converging to reshape Tamil Nadu’s electoral equilibrium

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India’s Navigation Ambition Faces a Deployment Gap: NavIC’s Ageing Satellites Outpace Replacement Cycle

A scheduled end-of-life satellite failure has exposed a deeper structural issue—India’s navigation constellation is thinning faster than it is being replenished

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Why Netflix’s InterPositive Bet Signals a New Phase of Cost-Compression in Filmmaking

A reported deal worth up to $600 million for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking venture reflects a deeper shift underway in the global film industry—where streaming platforms facing escalating production costs are investing in machine-learning systems designed to reduce reshoots, automate post-production workflows and improve the economics of large-scale content production. What does this mean for VFX businesses? and more importantly, how safe are VFX jobs?

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India’s Smartphone Strategy Enters Phase Two: From Assembly Concentration to Value Capture

After the PLI scheme helped turn India into a major smartphone assembly hub—dominated by a handful of global supply chains—New Delhi is now redesigning incentives to push manufacturers toward higher domestic value addition and deeper component localisation.

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Trump Revives Section 301 Trade Weapon Against India and 15 Other Economies; The Risk Is Not The Same For All

After a US Supreme Court ruling dismantled parts of Washington’s tariff regime, the Trump administration has turned to a familiar but slower instrument of trade pressure—Section 301 investigations—placing India, China and several Asian manufacturing economies under renewed scrutiny.

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India’s Gas Economy Has Reached Its Strategic Stress Point

A decade of welfare-led LPG expansion and gas-network growth made cooking fuel and city gas more accessible to hundreds of millions of Indians. But the current West Asia disruption has exposed the harder truth beneath that success: India expanded demand far faster than it built domestic production depth, storage cover, electric hedge or a serious contingency architecture against Hormuz risk.