India

Growth Strategies

Will US Tariff Cut Fuel Lab-Grown Diamonds Growth?

As part of the broader US–India trade reset, the tarriff reduction from 50% to 18% could restore competitiveness for India’s export-heavy gems and jewellery industry, potentially accelerating growth in the fast-scaling lab-grown diamonds sector
By Saumyangi Yadav
Budget 2026

Budget 2026 Likely to Favour Continuity Over Big Bang Reforms

As India heads into Union Budget 2026, expectations across markets and industry remain restrained. After several years of elevated pandemic-era spending, the government is firmly back on a fiscal consolidation path, narrowing the deficit from over 9 per cent of GDP in FY21 to 5.6 per cent in FY24, 5.1 per cent in FY25 (RE), and a budgeted 4.9 per cent in FY26. 
By Prince Kariappa
Business News

How Information Pricing Could Reshape Digital Economies

As the economy becomes increasingly digitized, information is often undervalued and poorly managed. Companies are prone to dealing with misinformation and mixed signals and, as such, lack clear ways to measure the reliability or economic worth of the information they need.
By Raghava Hebbar