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Just 7 states control 94% of India's FDI.

Maharashtra alone has pulled in ₹8.59 lakh crore since October 2019. Add Gujarat, Karnataka, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Telangana, and you've accounted for almost all of the ₹27.26 lakh crore that's flowed into the country.

Meanwhile, states like Bihar, Jharkhand and the entire Northeast are fighting for scraps.

This isn't really about who has the best "investment climate." It's about ports, talent pools and decades of infrastructure compounding on themselves. Once a state becomes the default choice for global capital, it's incredibly hard to dislodge.

So here's the question: can policy alone fix this gap, or is geography just destiny when it comes to FDI?

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India’s biggest state economies have changed more than you think!

Maharashtra dominated for years. Gujarat just took the top spot. Uttar Pradesh is climbing fast.

And some former heavyweights are slipping down the rankings.

So which states are winning India’s economic race and which ones are losing ground?

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India’s EV boom isn’t happening equally everywhere.

Some states are racing ahead with charging stations, subsidies and sales. Others are barely getting started.

So which states are leading India’s electric future… and which ones are falling behind? Let us know in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!

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Blinkit: ₹13,232 Cr revenue. Zomato food delivery: ₹3,125 Cr.
Quick commerce is now the main character. 2,243 dark stores. 216 added in one quarter. ~80,000 SKUs in Delhi NCR alone.
But Zomato still makes more profit per order. Bigger isn't always better on the margins front.
Eternal's glow-up is real though — net profits up 346% YoY. New CEO. New era.
Is quick commerce the future, or is it just running fast to stay expensive?

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Here's something nobody tells you about India's economy.

Surat processes 90% of the world's diamonds. Kollam controls global cashew trade. Coimbatore runs half of India's knitwear exports.

None of them are Mumbai. None of them are Delhi.
50 cities. 40% of India's GDP. And most of them are hiding in plain sight.

Which city on this list shocked you the most? Tell us in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!

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8/ And just like that, the King of Mangoes - the Alphonso remains, for the most part, India’s most guarded secret not by design but a collective failure of infrastructure, bureaucracy and urgency. That just leaves us asking, for a country that exports satellites and software, how is a fruit still this hard to ship?

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India grows around 26 million metric tonnes of mangoes every year, that's over half the world’s mangoes and still barely exports around 0.5% of it.

So, why does India not share its mangoes? Here's what you need to know 🧵🥭

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7/ The current mango season is worse. Production in the Konkan belt has plummeted by as much as 85% with daily arrivals at Navi Mumbai’s Vashi APMC dropping from the standard 2000-3000 boxes to just 150-200 boxes now. Major exporting houses have already slashed their 2026 order books, diverting what little stock exists to domestic markets instead.

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8/ While the sticker says Made in India, if 80 cents of every dollar leaves the country the moment a purchase is made, are we manufacturing phones or just the illusion of it? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!

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We call it Make in India. But 80 cents of every dollar leaves the country the moment a phone is sold!

Here's what's really going on 🧵

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7/ But the concern comes when semiconductor fabrication facilities (or fabs as they call it), don’t scale like assembly lines do. They take years to become competitive and supply chains take even longer to localize. And until that happens, every additional phone that India exports quietly increases its dependence on imports. The amount of goods imported crossed ₹100 billion for the first time this year.