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If you've glanced at the business pages this week, you might have noticed a string of unusually upbeat headlines about the Indian economy. Industrial output is growing faster than expected, Moody's says the country's credit rating is safe, and one of the government's top economic voices is talking about 8% growth like it's actually within reach. Taken together, these stories paint a picture of an economy that's not just holding up under global pressure but quietly building momentum. Let's...

Imagine logging into your trading app one morning and finding that a stock you've held for years can't be sold anymore. The shares are still sitting in your demat account, but they're frozen. No buyer, no exit, no payout. And the value? Zero. That's exactly what happened to roughly 6.48 lakh shareholders of Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) when the stock was delisted from the BSE and NSE on June 18, 2026. If you're wondering how a once-prominent company can vanish from the stock market and...

There are weeks in the markets when not much happens, and then there are weeks like the one India just had. In the space of three days in mid-June 2026, two of the most talked-about companies in the country quietly filed the paperwork to go public, and between them, they could end up raising well over ₹65,000 crore. On June 17, the National Stock Exchange (NSE), yes, the exchange itself, filed its draft papers with SEBI. Two days later, on June 19, Jio Platforms, the telecom-and-digital arm...