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The largest technology investment cycle in decades has a deadline attached to it — the point at which the spending has to start paying for itself. European telecom groups are now publishing the savings they expect from it, which makes the return calculation public for the first time.
The currency slid to 96.30 against the dollar, with capital outflows blunting what the Reserve Bank of India can do. Intervening to hold a level is not the same as defending it, and the difference shows up in India's import bill.
Capital formation doubled its growth rate in a quarter when rural demand slowed. That combination looks like capacity building. It also looks like a bet on demand that has not arrived.
Maharashtra is running dry pumps while refiners keep running. The distinction is not pedantry: it decides whether the fix is a tanker, a truck or a price.
Rainfall at Safdarjung ran 26% above normal, one day was the cleanest July day in a decade, and the monthly average AQI still came in at 119. Both facts belong in the same paragraph.
Marsh reports additional premiums for Hormuz transits rising from 1-3% of hull value to 7.5-10% in weeks. India's state-backed pool has not moved yet, which is the more interesting fact.
About 1.15 billion barrels of supply went missing during three and a half months of war, and OECD emergency stocks are at their lowest since 1990. Reopening a strait is not the same as restoring a market.
A five-wicket win in Ahmedabad gave Rajat Patidar's side back-to-back championships. The margin flatters a final that was, by the losing captain's own account, closer than the scoreboard suggests.
The meteorological department's May outlook promised more heatwave days and hotter nights. Three weeks later the national power peak had set an all-time record. This is what a hot month costs an ordinary household.
The BJP breached West Bengal and a new formation took Tamil Nadu. The interesting part of this election cycle is not who won. It is how many governments are now running without a settled majority.
Karnataka as a whole drew 66 per cent of its sustainable groundwater in 2025. The queue outside a BWSSB tanker office is what that ratio looks like at the ward level.
The headline accelerated from February's final 3.21 per cent. Food prices went the other way, and precious metals did a disproportionate share of the work in holding it down.
The Sensex and Nifty gave up roughly a tenth of their value in March. Crude above $105, a rupee at record lows and heavy foreign selling explain most of it; the Reserve Bank's February hold explains the rest of the context.
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.
Brent settled at $70.71 on January 29, the highest since July, on fear of US strikes. The premium a bank has actually put on that fear is $3 to $4 a barrel. That gap is worth understanding.
