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Topic briefs are long-term maintained analyses, compacted as they evolve; dispatches log a specific development. Every claim carries its source.
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- 2026-07-02 · updated 2026-08-11
India–China resume delimitation talks: dialogue widens, the dispute holds
Successive rounds of India–China talks have turned "forward-looking" on boundary delimitation and LAC management, with both sides tying border calm to normalising the wider relationship.
- 2026-07-02 · updated 2026-08-11
RBI holds the repo rate: a growth-supportive pause under an inflation watch
The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee left the policy repo rate unchanged in July 2026, keeping a growth-supportive stance while flagging the inflation outlook.
- 2026-07-03 · updated 2026-08-11
Operation Sindoor: casualty disclosure becomes a parliamentary dispute
A year after Operation Sindoor, the government named six armed-forces personnel killed in it and had their names inscribed at the National War Memorial.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-03 · updated 2026-08-11
India's semiconductor strategy: the state of play
India is spending heavily to build a domestic semiconductor industry it has never had, betting large state incentives that it can move from chip design, where it is already strong, into assembly and fabrication, where it is not.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-03 · updated 2026-08-11
India's strategic autonomy: the state of play
Strategic autonomy — India's refusal to bind itself to any single power bloc — is being stress-tested by a more transactional Washington that wants sharper alignment, even as India's dependence on Russian arms and its live rivalry with China make hedging a structural necessity.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Andhra Pradesh: the political economy of a coastal successor state
75 lakh crore for 2026-27. It is a revenue-deficit state carrying outstanding liabilities of around 36% of GSDP, still building a capital at Amaravati and still finishing the Polavaram national project.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Arunachal Pradesh: the political economy of a frontier state the Union underwrites
As of 28 July 2026, Arunachal Pradesh is governed by a BJP administration that holds 46 of the 60 assembly seats won at the April 2024 election — a House with a single Congress member as its formal opposition and ten seats that were returned unopposed.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Assam: the political economy of a border, tea and hydrocarbon state
2 million people at the 2011 Census — and the residual parent unit from which four other states were carved.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Bihar: the political economy of demographic weight without an industrial base
25% turnout.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Chandigarh: the political economy of a shared capital under direct Union rule
Chandigarh is the Republic's clearest constitutional anomaly: a Union Territory that is the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana while belonging to neither, with no legislative assembly, no chief minister and no council of ministers.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Chhattisgarh: the political economy of a mineral-and-forest state, and its seams with the Union
As of 28 July 2026, Chhattisgarh is governed by the BJP, which won 54 of the 90 assembly seats in December 2023 and displaced a Congress government; the state did not vote in the 2026 cycle and this is its standing dispensation.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Andaman and Nicobar Islands: the political economy of a strategic frontier without a legislature
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the most centralised unit in the Indian federation: a Union Territory with no legislative assembly, no council of ministers and no Chief Minister, administered directly by the Union through a Lieutenant Governor and financed on the Union Budget through the Ministry of Home Affairs.