Another bright shade of Indiaโs growth story ๐ฎ๐ณ
Japanese
๐๏ธowned businesses in India: 1,463 (2026), employing 459k+
๐๏ธCumulative Japanese FDI: $48.14B ($3.75B in FY26)
๐๏ธBilateral trade: $27.48B (FY26)
๐๏ธJapanese GCCs: 75
Read more: ๐https://t.co/wlgk8HouIF
#India#Japan#FTA
INDIA's Growth story is taking root across every state
Uttar Pradesh launches Indiaโs first data corridor with an Investment proposal Rs 6 Lakh Crore
@myogiadityanath#IndiaShining#UP#India
UP's โน6 Lakh Crore Bet on India's First Data Corridor.๐ฎ๐ณ
- Uttar Pradesh plans to build India's first dedicated Data Corridor.
- โน6 lakh crore investment proposed in the first phase.
- Target is 6 GW of data centre capacity (โน1 lakh crore investment per 1 GW).
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will prepare the project roadmap in 6 months.
- Feasibility studies will assess land, soil, water availability and power infrastructure.
- 6 GW of capacity could make it one of India's largest data centre ecosystems.
(News Reports)
Good news ๐ฎ๐ณ
India join a small group of countries with indigenous GM cryocooler technolgy.
Developed a (โ243ยฐC) GM cryocooler, including an indigenous helium compressor
This tech is imp for superconducting systems, quantum technology, space and advanced scientific research.
Travel Industry ๐ A new took in your hand, explore INDIA ๐ Incredible INDIA
A journey through India is incomplete without experiencing the art forms that bring its cultural heritage to life
Incredible!ndia @incredibleindia@ChatGPT#Mysore#India@narendramodi#ExploreINDIA๐ฎ๐ณ
I asked GPT-6 Astra in Codex to build me an explorable 3D Mysuru Palace. Here's what it created with Blender & Three.js โจ
I separately had it compose an audio track, then mashed it all together
Loved bringing this idea to life!
Russia Ukraine Peace initiative
Dr. S. #Jaishankar met #Russian President Vladimir #Putin in Moscow with discussions covering key bilateral & regional issues including the situation in #Ukraine
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Putin Orders 72-Hour Kyiv Pause
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How many of you know that Indian are using their own navigation system. Why ๐ Accurate | Reliable l Indigenous
Air Marshal @sanjeev__kapoor
NavIC Explained: India's Own GPS System | How It Works
#India#IndianAirforce#NavIC
https://t.co/SMwMxzaPoM via @YouTube
NVDIA is set to reach every developer, IT Professional and every Organisation through Hugging face
Are you ready to elevate AI to its next frontier and shape a brighter future for everyone
Thank you @JensenHuang@nvidia@huggingface#AI
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.
Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me.
NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. ๐ค
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In a recent interview, Dr Raghuram Rajan says we are getting only low paying manufacturing jobs in Tamil Nadu. He also opposes industrial policy at the national level. Let me explain the intrinsic contradiction between these two ideas.
Let us consider the iPhone factory in Tamil Nadu. It would take the average worker there about 5 months of work to afford the entry level iPhone. In China, it would take only 1 month of the same factory work. The work is the same.
High paying jobs, which I agree we need, come from high value addition and that requires that we not only perform the R&D but we also own the IP in India and capture the resulting economic value addition. Only then would pay in even products where India does not have much IP (like the iPhone) would go up.
If you look at major IP-rich, successful companies in the world, all of them do substantial R&D in India. But only a tiny fraction of the economic value added by these companies (measured by their gross profit, as distinct from the net profit) actually is accounted for in India. Gross profit captures employee compensation, net profit and taxes, and goes directly into GDP calculation.
I will present two admittedly crude examples, just to illustrate the issue.
Nvidia has a gross profit of well over $200 billion a year and 24% of Nvidia employees are in India, mostly in R&D. Microsoft has a gross profit of about $230 billion a year and 10% of its R&D staff are in India. India's economic accounts will not show anywhere near 24% of value added by Nvidia or 10% of value added by Microsoft. India would only show a small fraction of the $48 billion value added by Nvidia or $23 billion of value added by Microsoft (presumably) arising from Nvidia India and Microsoft India R&D operations. Again, crude example, for illustration purpose only etc.
If we create Indian companies that own the IP in India, much of their economic value will accrue in India.
This is why long term R&D and capability building is so important.
Now let me come to industrial policy. The only mechanism the world has known for a "developing country" (no IP, low value addition) to become a "devloped country" (lots of IP and value addition captured locally) is to spur the domestic entrepreneurs and industry to gain the know-how and capability. This is the lesson from East Asia, and a great book on that topic is "How Asia Works".
Dr Raghuram Rajan represents what is called the "Chicago School" economic theory, originally arising from Milton Friedman. The Chicago School does not agree with industrial policy.
Following the Chicago School will get us to Mexico's economic situation (lots of low wage manufacturing) but never to Japan or Taiwan or South Korea and now China. Getting to Japan or Taiwan or South Korea or China require us to understand "How Asia Works". China rose from very low wages and now has overtaken nations like Mexico, because China has the know-how and IP and Mexico does not.
In one interview, Dr Rajan has managed to both want high paying jobs (yes!) and oppose the very policy needed to get us there!
Book link below.
Japan Credit Rating Agency has upgraded Indiaโs long term foreign & local currency issuer ratings from BBB+ to A- with a Stable Outlook & raised the country ceiling to A
Upgrade reflects
-confidence in Indiaโs resilient growth
-effective economic reforms
#INDIA๐ฎ๐ณ#CreditRATING
-substantially stronger financial system
Robust private consumption and sustained public investment continue to underpin growth, while improvements in banking-sector asset quality and financial-system soundness reinforce Indiaโs macroeconomic strength
#IndiaGrowthStory#Reforms
GDP numbers for those who need a refresher course in economics.
SBI Research has dismantled the needless controversy over Indiaโs Q1 FY27 GDP numbers.
The facts are straightforward:
โข Real GDP growth: 7.8% at constant prices.
โข Nominal GDP growth: 10.3% at current prices.
โข Q1 FY26 nominal GDP, after the new base-year revision, is โน80.0 lakh crore, while Q1 FY27 is โน88.3 lakh crore.
โข Comparing โน88.3 lakh crore with the old โน86.1 lakh crore figure and calling the difference โgrowthโ is simply wrong.
โข GDP estimates are routinely revised, both upward and downward. Q1 FY27 itself will go through multiple revisions and be finalised only in February 2029.
As SBI Research puts it, deducing conclusions by mixing two entirely different GDP series is โfallaciousโ and a sign of intellectual sclerosis.
Maybe before lecturing the country on economics, some of our self-proclaimed experts should learn how GDP numbers actually work.
Your creativity could power the future of digital healthcare!
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๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ต๐๐ฏ, ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ธ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ณ
GIFT IFSC continues to strengthen its role in supporting Indiaโs foreign-currency mobilisation and cross-border financing requirements.
Key milestones:
โข As of 31 August 2026, 20 IFSC Banking Units (IBUs) sanctioned USD 54.02 billion under RBIโs special swap facility for FCNR(B) deposits, of which USD 52.82 billion has been disbursed.
โข During April-August 2026, IBUs disbursed USD 11.62 billion in External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs), with monthly disbursements increasing from USD 1.54 billion in April to USD 3.54 billion in August.
โข During the same period, Indian banks raised USD 11.12 billion through bond listings on IFSC exchanges, including USD 9.17 billion during July-August 2026.
These milestones demonstrate GIFT IFSCโs emergence as a deep, diversified and increasingly integrated international banking ecosystemโeffectively connecting global pools of capital with Indiaโs financing requirements.
By strengthening foreign-exchange inflows and expanding access to international banking and capital markets, GIFT IFSC is contributing to strategic initiatives supporting the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.
Read the full press release:
https://t.co/9WMQGozeSp
#IFSCA #GIFTIFSC #InternationalBanking #FCNRB #ECB #BondListings #CapitalMarkets #ViksitBharat2047
Today weโre introducing a new 3.8 Flash model, our 3rd Flash release in just 6 wks.
It delivers significant leaps from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. On DeepSWE v1.1, it outperforms most larger frontier models in autonomously solving complex engineering problems end to end, at a fraction of the cost.
More details here: https://t.co/4YkKkdKQvu