Monsoon Marvel
IMD now expects precipitation during the June-September monsoon season to be 106% of the long-term diameter (LPA), which is up to April 105% of April. The precipitation itself only in June is expected to be 108% of LPA.
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The precipitation is also likely to be above normal in the monsoon core zone-shell agricultural belt with rain. When rains come soon in several countries, the view is positive about the outputs of the crop kharif.
Order
The CEO of Niti Aayog BVR Subrahmanyam recently claimed that India had already overtaken Japan as the fourth largest economy in the world and that data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) showed it. However, the latest April 2025 IMF data shows the world economic outlook for the Indian HDP for the fiscal year 2025 for $ 3.909 trillion, under the Japanese $ 4.026 trillion for the calendar year 2024, while keeping India in fifth place.
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India is expected to overcome Japan only in FY26, with $ 4.187 trillion compared to the Japanese $ 4.186 trillion.
Share a sale
$ 1.35 billion: This is the value of co -founders and promoter Rrakesh Gangwal in Indigo sold in a block agreement on Tuesday, Mint said. Gangwal and his family Chinkerpoo Trust unloaded 22.1 million shares or 5.7% share in £5,230,5 Each in Interglobe Aviation Ltd, which operates Indigo. After settlement with the co -founder Rahul Bhatia Gangwal, he gradually reduced his share in the airline. On August 29, 2024, he sold a 5.83% stake after the same share on 11 April 2024.
Output
Indian industrial production increased year -on -year to 2.7% in April 2025, which meant an eight -month minimum, mainly due to a sharp decrease in electricity and mining production. Production growth has also alleviated 3.4%, although a sharp increase in investment goods (20.3%) signaled positive investment dynamics. While consumer duration maintained stable, they did not decorate in the contraction.
With lower temperatures reducing the demand and basic effects that change unfavorable, the factory production is expected to drop below 2%in May 2025, India and research said.
Staff press
For the first time in five years, the workforce of Tata Motors decreased in FY25. It was 3% to 58,442 employees in the middle of declining demand for vehicles. This is in sharp contrast with the previous fiscal year, when the workforce recorded an increase of 6%, said the Mint report. The decline was mainly for employees who are not controlling, which dropped to 45,486 out of 47,495 in the previous year.
Meanwhile, the median increase in salary for managers slowed to 3% of 15% in the previous year. However, the Company said the decline in the number of employees reflects modifications at the end of the year than the terms and conditions.
Vodafone’s misery
£6,000 crore: This is the value of bank guarantees presented by the idea of Vodafone to the government, the Mint report said. After the rejection of the modified gross income of the Supreme Court on 19 May, Vodafone informed the court that it did not have to survive a fiscal year without loans tied to the AGR relief. The creditors are now waiting for the decision of the telecommunications department on these warranty. Their evocation would worsen the financial crisis of Vodafone.
While the government has the power to do so, analysts believe that it can refrain from and prefer the stability of the sector over immediate recovery.
Contract
The dynamics of global trade are shifted from multilateralism to custody to Earth, while the regional trade agreements (RTA) are more pronounced. Since May 2025, 375 RTA has been sharp in the last two decades. With 19 RTA India ranks 11th.
Developed countries lead in agreements that often exceed tariffs. Indian RTA, like those with SAE, reflect this evolving trend towards deeper and intergional business partnerships.
Graph of the Week: Silent Tension
Marriages in India drastically change the daily life of women and burden them by homework in the home, the analysis of the time-use of the Pan-India has proven to be analyzed. After a woman’s marriage, she spends 27% of her day for unpaid home duties, from 6%, when unmarried, while the proportion of men rises only slightly from 1% to 3%.
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