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The National Statistical Office's new series opened with a headline rate of 3.21% year on year, a touch above the level that keeps a February cut in play and well inside the tolerance band around the Reserve Bank of India's target.
NOT SCRIPTED worked through the IMD's own outlook and the early-March temperature reports to size the exposure of the north Indian rabi crop to a hot start to March.
The February Budget announced a second version of the India Semiconductor Mission and raised the electronics component outlay by more than 80%. The money is committed; the rules are not yet written.
The Supreme Court struck down the emergency tariffs in February. What replaces them runs on borrowed time, and Indian exporters are waiting to see whether the money already collected comes back.
The first monthly forecast of the 2026 summer points to isolated heatwaves in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh in March and a broad warming of 3 to 15 days above normal across much of the country.
Reuters reports Brent near $70 after joint US-Israeli strikes and Iranian retaliation, with no confirmed damage to oil infrastructure and no reported disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz at the time of writing.
The statistics office moved to a 2022-23 base year and reported 7.8% real growth for the October-December quarter. Two things changed at once, and only one of them is about performance.
Six justices held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorise the duties at issue. What replaces them, and whether importers get money back, are separate questions from the one the court answered on February 20.
Reporting from Chandigarh: Baboo won the men's 42km in 3:09:17 and Rani the women's in 3:33:24 on a distance introduced to the calendar this season, with both athletes pointing at the Asian Games later in the year.
The February 18–19 summit in the capital closed with a seven-pillar declaration on AI impact. Signatory counts differ between the government release and same-day news reports, and the two figures are not measuring the same thing.
