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State Debt Levels (Debt to GSDP % FY25 (RE)) 📊🇮🇳
Punjab – 46.9%
West Bengal – 40%
Bihar – 38%
Rajasthan – 37%
Kerala – 36.2%
Andhra Pradesh – 35.5%
Madhya Pradesh – 30.8%
Haryana – 30.2%
Tamil Nadu – 30.2%
Uttar Pradesh – 30%
Chhattisgarh – 29.2%
Telangana – 27.3%
Jharkhand – 25.5%
Karnataka – 25.4%
Odisha – 20.6%
Maharashtra – 18.6%
Gujarat – 17.8%
👉 Only Gujarat & Maharashtra are below the 20% threshold established by the FRBM Review Committee in 2018.
(Forbes via CareEdge)
IIT Campus area (in acres):🏦🇮🇳
Kharagpur: 2,100
BHU: 1,300
Kanpur: 1,055
Bhubaneswar: 936
Jodhpur: 852
Guwahati: 704
Dhanbad: 680
Madras: 617
Bombay: 550
Mandi: 538
Delhi: 325
Patna: 501
The Indian Index retweeted
🚨 SUPREME COURT | “Can you show any justification for this loot?”
A cancer patient’s husband, a medical distributor, told the Supreme Court that an injection available to him at a dealer price of ₹11,000 was allegedly priced at ₹1.30 lakh by a reputed hospital, which refused to administer the injection he offered.
“Why this difference? Where does the money go?” Justice Sandeep Mehta asks the Centre.
The Indian Index retweeted
Genuine question: why Maithili thakur who does not say a word offending and risen from humble background generate so much hate from libtards??
The Indian Index retweeted
🚨🚨Breaking : Kerala Congress apologizes to CJI Surya Kant, for the publication of the "Resign Now-We will find replacement" social media post and the disrespect conveyed by its language.
It says person responsible for the post has been removed
@INCKerala
Tier 3 cities outpace metros in retail spending in Q2, signalling a deeper shift in India’s consumption story.
No intention to increase ethanol blending in fuel beyond 20%: Hardeep Puri
Misinformation about E20 (20 per cent ethanol-blended petrol) was a "contrived narrative," he said.
"In so far biofuels are concerned, yes, the 20 per cent (of ethanol blending) was the target, and there is no desire, just now, to increase by more than 20 per cent," he said to a question on discussions around E20 fuel, adding that misinformation was being spread about the issue.
The Indian Index retweeted
Where will Young India live?
By 2035, India will need nearly 10 million new student beds, requiring over $150 billion in investment. Yet barely 1 in 10 students lives in organised hostels. This is a critical challenge that demands urgent attention.
This important and often overlooked issue was brought into sharp focus by the outstanding research of Atharv Gupta, a brilliant young student at American School Bombay and ex-NITI Aayog intern, whose research formed the foundation of our article.
We make the case for unlocking idle public land, crowding in private capital, enabling universities to anchor demand & creating safe, affordable student housing at scale. The state must move from builder to enabler.
Delighted to have co-authored this piece with Atharv Gupta(pictured below) in @FinancialXpress.
financialexpress.com/opinion…
Top IPOs & how much i-bankers earned:💰🇮🇳
- Hyundai Motor India: ₹493 crore | 1.77% of issue size
- One 97 Communications: ₹324 crore | 1.77%
- Swiggy: ₹275 crore | 2.43%
- Eternal: ₹229 crore | 2.44%
- LG Electronics India: ₹226 crore | 1.95%
- Jio Platforms: ₹196 crore | 0.65%
(BS, Bloomberg)
🇮🇳 India’s First School of Physical AI
- IIT Kharagpur to set up India’s first dedicated School of Physical AI
- ₹35 crore investment for the new academic centre
- ₹12.5 crore from Vinod Gupta family; ₹10 crore from an anonymous alumnus
- Physical AI focuses on AI systems that interact with and operate in the real world
India’s hair-loss treatment market is booming🧑🦲🇮🇳
MAT sales (₹ crore), September year-end:
2022: ₹724 cr
2023: ₹812 cr
2024: ₹917 cr
2025: ₹1,035 cr
2026: ₹1,287 cr
78% growth in four years.
(PharmaTrac / Pharmarack AWACS via BS)
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Shocking! CCP stooge Neville Roy Singham gave instructions to journalists at Newsclick telling them to portray Arunachal as a part of China.
They claim to speak truth to power but in reality they are undermining India’s national security @HMOIndia
2.1 million followers. Just 33 votes.
Rajasthan influencer Omprakash Bishnoi, who has 2.1M+ followers across Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, contested a sarpanch election in Jodhpur.
He got just 33 votes — and says 11 came from his family.
🇮🇳 India’s Workforce Shift: Fewer People Dependent on Farming Over the Decades🧑🌾
📉 Workforce Dependent on Farming & Allied Activities
• 1988 — 66%
• 1991 — 63%
• 2000 — 60%
• 2005 — 55%
• 2010 — 51%
• 2015 — 47%
• 2024 — 43.5%
(Reports)
🇮🇳 LANGUAGE SHARE OF INDIA’S BOX OFFICE📽️
2026 vs 2025*
Hindi — 39% vs 38%
Telugu — 18% vs 20%
Tamil — 13% vs 15%
International — 14% vs 12%
Malayalam — 8% vs 9%
Kannada — 3% vs NA
Others — 5% vs 6%
(Ormax Media)
*2026 data till September
☀️ 88% of residential rooftop solar capacity under PM Surya Ghar is concentrated in just 10 states🇮🇳
Share of residential rooftop solar capacity:
1. Gujarat: 19.6%
2. Maharashtra: 17.5%
3. Uttar Pradesh: 16.5%
4. Kerala: 8.2%
5. Rajasthan: 7.4%
6. Andhra Pradesh: 5.7%
7. Madhya Pradesh: 4.0%
8. Assam: 2.7%
9. Haryana: 2.6%
10. Odisha: 2.6%
Other states & UTs: 12.2%
(Ember)
📈 India adds 4.4 million new mutual fund investors in 9 months of 2026🇮🇳
Net additions in mutual fund investors, Jan–Sep (million):
2020: 1.0
2021: 5.2
2022: 5.4
2023: 3.7
2024: 8.1
2025: 4.5
2026: 4.4
📊 2026 additions are 4.4× higher than 2020, despite being below the 2024 peak.
(AMFI)
📉 Extreme poverty has declined sharply
Share of population living below $3/day
(2021 PPP prices)
2015 → 2023
🇮🇳 India: 27.1% → 2.6%
🇨🇳 China: 2.9% → 0%
🇺🇸 U.S.: 1.2% → 1.2%
🇯🇵 Japan: 0.4% → 1.2%
🇬🇧 UK: 0.3% → 0.4%
🇩🇪 Germany: 0.1% → 0.7%
🇫🇷 France: 0.1% → 0.1%
🌍 World: 13.4% → 10.5%
🇮🇳 India recorded the biggest decline among the countries listed: 24.5 percentage points.
India’s earlier figure is for 2011; other earlier figures are for 2015. Latest available years vary by country.
(World Bank)
🌱 India’s soil nutrient deficit revealed🇮🇳
Of 96 lakh soil samples tested under the Soil Health Card Scheme in 2025–26:
🧪 Nitrogen: 72%
🧪 Organic Carbon: 52%
🧪 Boron: 42%
🧪 Zinc: 37%
🧪 Iron: 27%
🧪 Sulfur: 27%
🧪 Phosphorus: 16%
🧪 Manganese: 13%
🧪 Potassium: 12%
🧪 Copper: 5%
Nitrogen deficiency was the most widespread, found in nearly 3 out of 4 samples.
(Soil Health Card Scheme, 2025–26)