THE FALLOUT: India’s chemical exporters, long reliant on steady American demand, now face their toughest reckoning yet. The US, which absorbs nearly 15 per cent of India’s $42 billion (Rs 3.7 lakh crore) in chemical shipments, has slapped a 50 per cent import duty on roughly half that trade—about $3 billion (Rs 26,400 crore). But…
THE FALLOUT: The Indian diamond industry, spanning polishing, jewellery-making and trading, has been hammered by the latest US tariffs. The US is India’s single-largest market, accounting for over $10 billion (over Rs 88,000 crore) in exports, or 63 per cent of the nearly $16 billion (Rs 1.4 lakh crore) of India’s cut and polished natural…
THE FALLOUT: A labour-intensive sector, India’s garment industry is among the hardest hit by Trump’s tariffs. The United States, the largest market, accounts for nearly 30 per cent of the country’s total textile and apparel exports, valued at $10.8 billion (Rs 95,040 crore). Readymade garments and home textiles dominate the export basket, with a 45.7…
THE FALLOUT: When Manoj and Pankaj Chadha calculated the Rs 44 crore hit their company now stares at, it was clear the pain was not theirs alone. India’s $20 billion (Rs 1.8 lakh crore) worth of engineering exports to the US—part of the sector’s overall $118 billion (Rs 10.4 lakh crore)—have taken some of the…
For 58-year-old Asad K. Iraqi, CEO of Kanpur-based footwear company AKI India Limited, Donald Trump’s whims are upending a business he spent three decades building. From Kanpur’s crowded lanes, he expanded AKI into a public listed company, with a registered office in Jajmau, and a tannery and footwear manufacturing unit in Akrampur, Unnao, employing 300…
On a warm afternoon in Mubarakpur, near IIM Lucknow, the faint scent of lemongrass mingles with the earthy smell of drying leaves. Inside a two-storey building, women in crisp hairnets and gloves move in a quiet rhythm—weighing powders, sealing soaps, sliding green tea pouches into neat stacks. Along one wall, rows of jars and packets…
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The August 2025 poll for the India Today Mood of the Nation (MOTN) offers a telling portrait of Indian democracy in flux, marked by contradictions, anxieties and a measure of guarded optimism. In contrast to the triumphalist narratives that have defined the 11 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the findings reveal a nation that…
In the realm of foreign policy, India had an eventful half-year that may well reshape its future course. The first inflection point came in May, when the government launched Operation Sindoor in response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack, accompanied by a carefully calibrated diplomatic effort to rally international support. Soon after came a far more…
