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📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
What 36,780 Government Notices Teach
Since the first day of 2020 the Indian government has published 36,780 press releases. They come from 26 different ministries, across 2,440 separate days, and hardly any of them ever made the news. No…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
The Most Important Release of 2026 Had the Dullest Headline
On 27 February 2026 the Indian government published a notice called "New Series of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Estimates with Base Year 2022-23." Nobody shares that. It is a line of pure jargon wi…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
The Year With No Big Word
Every other year in this record has one word that swallows it whole. 2025 does not, and that turns out to be the most useful thing about it. The government published 5,364 press releases in 2025. H…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
The Two Months India's Government Went Quiet
In April 2024 the Indian government published 108 press releases. Across the other five full years of this whole record the April average is 392. In May it published 160. That May average is 357. N…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
Nobody Announced That It Was Over
For three years one word dominated everything the Indian government published. Then it disappeared, and nobody ever issued a notice to say so. This is what an ending looks like in a public record. Her…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
Two Stories at the Same Time
In 2022 the Indian government published 6,309 press releases. Covid appeared in 1,176 of them — nearly one in five, and almost as many as the year before. By that count, 2022 looked like more of th…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
The Year One Word Replaced Another
In 2021 the Indian government published 6,421 press releases. That is more than in any other year of this record, and about half as many again as 2020. A busy government is usually a worried one. Here…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
Seventeen Days Into 2020
On the first day of 2020 the Indian government published a very ordinary list. Tax collected in December. A change to railway fares. A year-end review of the roads ministry. Seventeen days later came …
⚔️ Ranbhoomi · 04 Sep 2026
Nifty snaps four-day fall, GDP and Fed comment drove the week
Nifty 50 broke a four-day fall on Friday, closing at 23,897.70, in a week where India's GDP data, a Middle East escalation and a Fed comment moved the market more than anything else. The index clos…
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