Warning signals
Indian interim trade data revealed the early impact of American tariffs. Total exports of goods in August increased by 6.7% year -on -year to $ 35.1 billion, but export growth to the US slowed to a nine -month minimum of 7.2%.
This decreases from an average growth of 25.6% between January and July, which was supported by a remake of consignments in front of tariffs. The key industries depending on the US market faced with total clothing export of 2.7%, carpets by 7.2%and Jute 8.3%. India, however, increased shipments to the UAE and the Netherlands that supported the overall growth of exports.
Monsoon chaos?
In 2025-26, the government assumed 2.4% food production growth to 362.96 million tonnes. In the previous year, food production increased by 6.5% to 353.96 Mt. Skorova’s screening came against the background of excessive precipitation and floods in recent weeks in key agricultural states such as Pandjab, Haryan, Rajasthan and Telangana.
Overall, India has received “above normal precipitation” in this monsoon season, allowing an increase in sowing. However, excess rainfall in some parts in early September led to damage to crops.
5 million: This is the number of active individual investors who performed last year at the stock markets, showed data from the National Stock Exchange. Retail investors on a direct route – which trades at least once a month – between September 2024 to August to 2025, 32% to 10.7 million occurred. The decline occurred on the back of the handy growl 17% from its peak in September 2024 before it became partial recovery. In contrast, investors of mutual funds increased by 12.5%in the same period, according to data funds in India (AMFI), which reflects the preference for investment in the patient in volatility.
Export
Several countries in Asia, including India, currently see disinfectant trends, showed mint analysis. The key factor that controls is the prolonged China economic weakness marked by slow demand and industrial capacity, economists noted. The Chinese producer’s price index (PPI) has remained in deflation since September 2022.
With several economies linked to China, due to their dominance in global production production, they had low prices of ripple to other countries. This includes India that relies strongly on China for imports. The data show that India wholesale inflation closely monitors PPI and underlines the connection between the two economies.
Independent bonanza
According to Nifty 50 Independent Director Remaderation Study Study Study Study Study Study Study Study Study Study Study-202025 Study Study Study-2025 Study-2025 Edition, “Nifty 50 Independent Director Remoduration Study-2025,”, over the past five years, there has been a sharp jump. The average compensation for them in Nifty 50 companies has almost doubled £52 Lakh in 2019-20 £1 Crore in 2024-25, the report emphasized.
However, the compensation of CEOs (CEOs) did not grow at the same pace, but still maintained a strong growth of 50%. Independent directors on the NIFTY Board of the Board of Directors account for approximately 60% of the total share of active directors, Mint reported.
Green money
1 trillion $: This is the amount that the government is trying to mobilize in Green Finance to increase investment in renewable energy, Mint reported. Non -six fuels are about half of the installed capacity in India and India set a target to install 500 gigawatts by renewable capacity by 2030. The Ministry of Renewable Energy Resources speaks with state energy companies, such as Power Finance Corporation and a rural electrification company for financing. The options considered include the difference between CFDs (CFD) for agreements on the purchase of energy and mezzanine finance. The Minister of Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi recently said that India had already reached half of her goal of green energy.
Trends
The unemployment rate in India has alleviated the second direct month and, according to the latest report on the periodic workforce survey (PLFS), dropped to a four -month minimum of 5.1% in August from 5.2% in July. However, gender wise data have shown that while the unemployment rate in men in August has fallen in rural and urban areas, it has increased for women.
The unemployment rate in men dropped to 4.5% of 4.6% in rural areas, while women increased up to 4.0% of 3.9%. The rise was the sharpest for women in urban areas where the unemployment rate increased by 20 basis points to 8.9% in August.
Young blood
According to a report by Politics for Impaint, which evaluated 482 non-ministers from June 2024 to 2025, the lawmakers of young women showed better than their male counterparts, showing the opposite trend from older women.
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