India’s hair-loss treatment market is booming🧑🦲🇮🇳
MAT sales (₹ crore), September year-end:
2022: ₹724 cr
2023: ₹812 cr
2024: ₹917 cr
2025: ₹1,035 cr
2026: ₹1,287 cr
78% growth in four years.
(PharmaTrac / Pharmarack AWACS via BS)
The Indian Index retweeted
Shocking! CCP stooge Neville Roy Singham gave instructions to journalists at Newsclick telling them to portray Arunachal as a part of China.
They claim to speak truth to power but in reality they are undermining India’s national security @HMOIndia
2.1 million followers. Just 33 votes.
Rajasthan influencer Omprakash Bishnoi, who has 2.1M+ followers across Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, contested a sarpanch election in Jodhpur.
He got just 33 votes — and says 11 came from his family.
🇮🇳 India’s Workforce Shift: Fewer People Dependent on Farming Over the Decades🧑🌾
📉 Workforce Dependent on Farming & Allied Activities
• 1988 — 66%
• 1991 — 63%
• 2000 — 60%
• 2005 — 55%
• 2010 — 51%
• 2015 — 47%
• 2024 — 43.5%
(Reports)
🇮🇳 LANGUAGE SHARE OF INDIA’S BOX OFFICE📽️
2026 vs 2025*
Hindi — 39% vs 38%
Telugu — 18% vs 20%
Tamil — 13% vs 15%
International — 14% vs 12%
Malayalam — 8% vs 9%
Kannada — 3% vs NA
Others — 5% vs 6%
(Ormax Media)
*2026 data till September
☀️ 88% of residential rooftop solar capacity under PM Surya Ghar is concentrated in just 10 states🇮🇳
Share of residential rooftop solar capacity:
1. Gujarat: 19.6%
2. Maharashtra: 17.5%
3. Uttar Pradesh: 16.5%
4. Kerala: 8.2%
5. Rajasthan: 7.4%
6. Andhra Pradesh: 5.7%
7. Madhya Pradesh: 4.0%
8. Assam: 2.7%
9. Haryana: 2.6%
10. Odisha: 2.6%
Other states & UTs: 12.2%
(Ember)
📈 India adds 4.4 million new mutual fund investors in 9 months of 2026🇮🇳
Net additions in mutual fund investors, Jan–Sep (million):
2020: 1.0
2021: 5.2
2022: 5.4
2023: 3.7
2024: 8.1
2025: 4.5
2026: 4.4
📊 2026 additions are 4.4× higher than 2020, despite being below the 2024 peak.
(AMFI)
📉 Extreme poverty has declined sharply
Share of population living below $3/day
(2021 PPP prices)
2015 → 2023
🇮🇳 India: 27.1% → 2.6%
🇨🇳 China: 2.9% → 0%
🇺🇸 U.S.: 1.2% → 1.2%
🇯🇵 Japan: 0.4% → 1.2%
🇬🇧 UK: 0.3% → 0.4%
🇩🇪 Germany: 0.1% → 0.7%
🇫🇷 France: 0.1% → 0.1%
🌍 World: 13.4% → 10.5%
🇮🇳 India recorded the biggest decline among the countries listed: 24.5 percentage points.
India’s earlier figure is for 2011; other earlier figures are for 2015. Latest available years vary by country.
(World Bank)
🌱 India’s soil nutrient deficit revealed🇮🇳
Of 96 lakh soil samples tested under the Soil Health Card Scheme in 2025–26:
🧪 Nitrogen: 72%
🧪 Organic Carbon: 52%
🧪 Boron: 42%
🧪 Zinc: 37%
🧪 Iron: 27%
🧪 Sulfur: 27%
🧪 Phosphorus: 16%
🧪 Manganese: 13%
🧪 Potassium: 12%
🧪 Copper: 5%
Nitrogen deficiency was the most widespread, found in nearly 3 out of 4 samples.
(Soil Health Card Scheme, 2025–26)
Share in India's Carrot production (%):🥕🇮🇳
Punjab - 21.49%
Uttar Pradesh - 17.67%
Haryana - 10.89%
West Bengal - 8.99%
Madhya Pradesh - 7.97%
Tamil Nadu - 6.34%
Bihar - 5.45%
Jammu & Kashmir - 3.63%
Assam - 3.07%
Karnataka - 2.74%
(NHB)
The Indian Index retweeted
Brazilian leftists want more people into STEM and AI.
Indian leftists want more people to study BA/MA in gender studies or sociology.
India is cursed with worst leftists on the planet earth.
The Indian Index retweeted
🚨BREAKING| "A newspaper report is not treated as evidence": ECI seeks summary dismissal of plea
The ECI argues that the petition is "admittedly based solely on a single newspaper report" and that the petitioner never sought to verify it with the Commission or made any representation to it.
"In the eyes of law, a newspaper report is not treated as evidence of the facts it narrates. The Commission has neither released nor authorized the release of any internal note / file to any news agency," the affidavit states.
Top 10 worst-affected states by diabetes:🇮🇳
1. Goa - 26.4%
2. Puducherry - 26.3%
3. Kerala - 25.5%
4. Chandigarh - 20.4%
5. Delhi - 17.8%
6. Tamil Nadu - 14.4%
7. West Bengal - 13.7%
8. Sikkim - 12.8%
9. Punjab - 12.7%
10. Haryana - 12.4%
Uttar Pradesh – 4.8% (lowest)
(Lancet, News Reports)
The Indian Index retweeted
India’s green hydrogen ambition is going global.
14 deals in just the first four months of 2026, 311,520 tonnes of annual supply, with 62% destined for export markets.
India is emerging as a key player in the global clean energy trade. @PMOIndia @HardeepSPuri @MinOfPower @mnreindia
The Indian Index retweeted
गंगा संरक्षण को अधिक संगठित और प्रभावी बनाने की दिशा में इसके संस्थागत ढाँचे को नया रूप दिया गया। राष्ट्रीय स्तर से लेकर राज्यों और ज़िलों तक, गंगा संरक्षण से जुड़ी व्यवस्थाओं को संस्थागत आधार मिला।
अनेक स्तर, पर एक ही संकल्प - अविरल और निर्मल गंगा।
#ReformUtsav2026 #NamamiGange #GangaConservation #InstitutionalReform #RiverRejuvenation
🌍 World’s 10 Largest Economies by PPP GDP in 2026.
Projected GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP), in international $ trillion:
🇨🇳 China: $44.55 trillion
🇺🇸 United States: $32.64 trillion
🇮🇳 India: $19.19 trillion
🇷🇺 Russia: $7.54 trillion
🇯🇵 Japan: $7.32 trillion
🇩🇪 Germany: $6.55 trillion
🇮🇩 Indonesia: $5.48 trillion
🇧🇷 Brazil: $5.27 trillion
🇬🇧 United Kingdom: $4.78 trillion
🇫🇷 France: $4.76 trillion
(VC)
✈️ UP has the highest share of operational airports among Indian states:🇮🇳
Uttar Pradesh: 10.5%
Maharashtra: 9.3%
Gujarat: 8.0%
Uttarakhand: 7.4%
Karnataka: 6.1%
Others: 58.6%
(Parliamentary reply; RBI calculations)
#As of April 2026















