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Mint Explainer | India spends defence budget on foreign ships. Can't it build its own?

New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Today, India is an inconsequential player in the global shipping space. Indian ships carry a minuscule share of the country's export-import trade, and Indian shipyards take yea... Read More


Mint Explainer | India spends defence budget on foreign ships. Can India chart its own course in shipping?

New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Today, India is an inconsequential player in the global shipping space. Indian ships carry a minuscule share of the country's export-import trade, and Indian shipyards take yea... Read More


Mint Explainer | Indian shrimp industry stares at another US levy. Can exporters survive the double whammy?

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- As if the 50% tariff imposed by the US was not debilitating enough, Indian shrimp exporters are staring at an additional levy-a potential anti-dumping duty of as much as 40%. M... Read More


Cows vs trade deals: The battle for India's milk market

Chennai, Sept. 15 -- Raj Kumar's family, from Poongunam village, in Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu, has been in dairy farming ever since he can remember. And the family didn't make much profit fo... Read More


Mint Explainer: Has inflation been tamed?

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- Retail inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, has been declining for months. In August, it was a comfortable 2.07%. Mint looks at the factors that contributed to th... Read More


Mint Explainer | Will GST rate cut upset government's fiscal math?

New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- The long-awaited overhaul of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is finally here. By lowering tax rates on mass-consumption items, GST 2.0 is expected to give a boost to domestic de... Read More


Mint Explainer: India's current account deficit narrows in Q1. But is it sustainable?

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- India's current account, which measures the flow of goods, services, and investments into the economy, returned to a deficit during the first quarter of 2026-26. The lower defici... Read More


Mint Explainer: India's Q1 GDP numbers beat expectations. But the devil is in the details

New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- India's economic growth in the first quarter of FY2025-26 came as a big surprise. The economy clocked a five-quarter high growth of 7.8%, defying expectations of a slowdown. Min... Read More


Mint Explainer: Will fewer slabs in GST 2.0 finally fix India's tax maze?

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- While delivering his Independence Day address on 15 August, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the long-overdue goods and service tax (GST) reforms. He promised a "double Diw... Read More


Mint Explainer: Could Trump's tariff trigger India's next '1991 moment'?

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- The steep tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on Indian goods threaten to significantly dent exports to the world's largest economy. Half of the 50% levy has already tak... Read More