September brought signs of easing ties between India and China. It also saw Indians boycott the India-Pakistan cricket match in solidarity with the armed forces. The GST cuts took effect from September 22, triggering a consumption pickup.<\/p>\n
That shift may have contributed to better-than-expected earnings commentary for the second half of the year. Sport delivered a defining moment. After India\u2019s T20 World Cup win and D Gukesh\u2019s World Chess Championship title in 2024, the Indian women\u2019s cricket team won<\/a> the World Cup in November. The celebrations united the country.<\/p>\n The entertainment sector closed the year with contrast. The Gujarati devotional film \u201cLaalo\u201d earned more than Rs 100 crore on a production cost of Rs 50 lakh, even as much of Indian cinema struggled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September brought signs of easing ties between India and China. It also saw Indians boycott the India-Pakistan cricket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-214344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}