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- Myanmar hilsa floods Indian plates as Bangladesh imports collapse to 2% in FY26
- MDR debate returns as UPI turns 10; govt subsidies cover just 11% of industry costs
- India staples hold steady as FCI stocks cushion West Asia inflation risk
- Tata Consumer eyes 20%+ Ebitda margin, scales Starbucks toward 8,000 stores
- Under-30s now drive 57% of Hindi box office, forcing PVR INOX and rivals to rewire pricing and content
- Air fryers crack urban India: Amazon sales up 132% YoY as prices crash from ₹14K to ₹3K
- AICPDF warns HUL, FMCG majors over unviable 3.5-5% margins; protest looms August 2026
- BIS bans chlorine bleaching, epichlorohydrin in first-ever India tea bag quality standards
- Agentic AI threatens Indian marketplaces' discovery moat as Razorpay flags 1,000 D2C brands going LLM-native
- PSU and mid-size banks deploy own QR-soundbox stacks to reclaim merchant float from PhonePe-Paytm
- Three-hour films return, reshaping multiplex unit economics at Cinépolis, Miraj, Mukta A2
- Razorpay, Cashfree, Juspay pivot from take-rates to SaaS as PA market crowds with 19 cross-border licences
- Amazon's India retreat: profitability pivot cedes ground to Flipkart, Reliance and quick-commerce trio
- Amazon Music India splits from Prime with 3-tier model, undercuts Spotify at ₹99
- Consumer deal volumes climb 22% but values crash 63% to $1.4bn as investors turn picky
- India waives 10.5% cotton import duty for 5 months to plug 3.7 mn bale deficit
- India's expressway boom stalls at the loading dock: truck speeds barely budge, squeezing retail margins
- Luxury hotels court affluent Indians with staycations as overseas travel softens
- Centre waives 10.5% cotton import duty till 31 October to ease textile input costs
- RBI to widen e-Rupee CBDC pilot into cross-border, welfare and retail merchant rails