A stock market index of Indian IT firms, the Nifty IT Index (.NIFTYIT), has fallen by more than a fifth this year while the benchmark NSE Nifty (.NSEI) has been flat as weaker global demand and a shift towards AI pressures the industry.

India is inching closer to Beijing. After US President Donald Trump doubled down with a 50% tariff on Indian goodspunishing New Delhi over discounted Russian oil purchasesPrime Minister Narendra Modi is quietly reopening the China playbook.

Trump, who has previously denounced India as a “tariff king”, blamed New Delhi’s purchases of Russian weapons and oil for the additional rate, which puts at risk India’s largest export market, worth $87bn in the year to the end of March.