Army Day (Jan 15): Why India Marks This Date Every Year
Key highlights Army Day is one of those dates people recognise—but don’t always understand. The official reason is specific and historical: 15 January is commemorated because, in 1949, General (later Field Marshal) K.M. Cariappa took command of the Indian Army from General Sir F.R.R. Bucher, the last British Commander-in-Chief, becoming the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of independent India. Press Information Bureau+1 PIB (Ministry of Defence) repeats this reason …
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Indian Handloom & Crafts 2026: Preservation vs Commercial Scaling
Key highlights What’s really changing in 2026? Handloom and crafts used to be sold mostly on story. In 2026, story still matters—but verification matters more. Export buyers, marketplaces, and even premium domestic customers want a clean answer to: Is this authentic? Is it consistent? Can you repeat this quality next month? Government-linked marks and schemes are designed to bridge that gap between artisan reality and …
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The 2026 Global Power Index: Which companies, not countries, set the rules of the decade?
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January 14, 2026
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Key highlights First: what do we mean by “power” in 2026? Not flags. Friction control. The ability to decide: So this “index” is really a lens: who controls the bottlenecks. The 5 control points that behave like power 1) Compute supply (AI accelerators + systems)If compute is scarce, the owners set terms. NVIDIA’s statutory reporting shows how central Data Center became to its business during …
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Crop Burning vs Urban Emissions: Winter 2026 Reality Check
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January 14, 2026
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India, Lifestyle
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Key Highlights For years, the winter pollution debate was framed as a simple blame game: Punjab and Haryana farm fires vs Delhi’s helpless residents. Winter 2026 demands a more adult conversation—because the data and the lived experience increasingly show that crop residue burning is only one part of the winter equation. Start with what official daily air-quality bulletins have been …
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Regional OTT Is India’s Real Growth Story in 2026
Key highlights Hindi OTT still has scale. It also has a problem that scale creates: sameness. When too many shows chase the same “serious” palette—crime, conspiracies, grim heroism—your scroll starts to feel like a corridor with identical doors. You don’t stop because you don’t hate it; you stop because you’re tired. Regional OTT wins in a quieter way: it speaks …
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GST Litigation 2026: What the GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) Means
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January 13, 2026
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Companies & Industry, India
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Key highlights Why GST litigation got messy (and why 2026 cares)A tax system at scale produces disputes—classification, rate, ITC, valuation, place of supply, penalties. What made GST uniquely painful was the appellate gap perception and uneven timelines. The law itself already provides the ladder; the operational question has been how fast and uniformly that ladder works. India Code+1 What GSTAT is, …
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The “Pan-India” Label: Genuine Integration or Marketing Sticker?
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January 12, 2026
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Key highlights “Pan-India” sounds like unity. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it’s just packaging. Real pan-India cinema doesn’t merely translate dialogue. It translates sensibility. It understands that humour, family dynamics, masculinity, romance, even silence—these behave differently across regions. When a film respects that complexity, it feels like integration. When it ignores it, it feels like a product designed to offend nobody …
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JPMorgan 2026: Why the “fortress balance sheet” matters in unstable markets
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January 12, 2026
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Banking & Finance
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Key highlights Why the phrase matters in 2026 In 2026, markets punish weak funding models quickly. A fortress balance sheet isn’t marketing poetry; it’s a competitive weapon. JPMorgan’s own annual report ecosystem (including shareholder letters and management discussion sections) is where the bank communicates this “resilience-first” approach and how it thinks about long-run returns. jpmorganchase.com What a fortress balance sheet buys …
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Real Estate in India 2026: Demand, Pricing, and New Rules
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January 12, 2026
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Key highlights Real estate in 2026 is neither a guaranteed boom nor a collapse story. It’s a pricing + affordability + trust story. Pricing in 2026: what the official index saysNHB’s RESIDEX releases provide an official view of residential price movement across covered cities. residex.nhbonline.org.in The real takeaway: prices don’t move in a straight line across India—micro-markets dominate. A project next to future infrastructure …
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The “Mass” Formula: Creativity’s Shortcut or India’s New Folk Theatre?
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January 11, 2026
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Key highlights India did not invent “mass” cinema last year. We have always had public performance that is designed for crowds—where a hero enters not for realism but for ritual. In that sense, mass cinema can be honest. It can be the modern cousin of folk theatre: direct, muscular, unembarrassed about emotion. But folk theatre survives only when it keeps …
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