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The RBI has raised the repo rate to 5.5% in its first hike in nearly four years and lifted its FY27 inflation view to 5.2%. Households will pay more on loans before they feel any relief on prices.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says India-US trade negotiations have levelled off with little room left for give and take, days after the US trade chief said a deal was 'not imminent'. Small exporters and farmers are left paying the price of a stalemate that has run since February 2025.
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A viral Tamil infographic showing Tamil Nadu's GST collections falling year-on-year for three straight months — July down ₹122 crore, August down ₹140 crore, September down ₹482 crore — matches official data, and it has triggered alarm. Former DMK ministers T.R.B. Rajaa and Thangam Thennarasu say the TVK government has no answer for why the state's revenue is shrinking while the rest of India grows.
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Foreign portfolio investors turned net sellers in September, dumping Rs 35,860 crore of Indian equities - the heaviest monthly outflow since the spring. Total 2026 withdrawals have hit a record Rs 2.69 lakh crore, already past all of 2025.
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A record Rs 2.69 lakh crore of foreign capital has fled Indian equities in 2026 while the government touts 7.8% GDP growth. The Nifty slides, the rupee sinks - and ordinary SIP savers are left catching the falling knife of hot money's exit.
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The rupee ended Thursday down 0.5% at 96.3150 per dollar — its sharpest single-day fall in over two months — as global bond yields hit decadal highs and Brent crude reclaimed $100 a barrel. State-run banks' dollar sales limited the fall, but foreign outflows and costlier imports keep the pressure on.
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Rising energy costs, the strongest El Nino since 1950 and soaring borrowing costs are pushing developing countries toward the kind of distress last seen in the pandemic, the UNDP chief said on Friday — warning of a domino effect across some 100 countries.
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September's GST data is unambiguous: India collected 14.7 per cent more, Tamil Nadu collected 5 per cent less. A government that claims administrative competence cannot shrug off a shrinking tax kitty in a booming economy.
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India's gross GST collections rose 14.7% year-on-year to about ₹2.04 lakh crore in September, the third straight month above the ₹2 lakh-crore mark. Tamil Nadu bucked the trend: its domestic collections fell 5% to ₹10,188 crore, making it the only major state in the red.
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