economic fabric
What is New Delhi made of?
news coverage + 3×registered companies + 2×mapped places, log-scaled vs strongest sector
momentum
What the city turned toward · Jan–Apr 2026
Each topic's share of news attention, January–April 2026 against September–December 2025 — news ingestion paused in May, so this is the latest complete window.
Missing Persons
6 → 45 news reports
▲448%
Disasters Emergencies
108 → 33 news reports
▼78%
Environment
879 → 300 news reports
▼75%
Terrorism Conflict
545 → 225 news reports
▼70%
Governance
2495 → 5637 news reports
▲65%
Immigration Border
79 → 46 news reports
▼57%
Accidents
625 → 472 news reports
▼45%
Public Safety
240 → 219 news reports
▼33%
Healthcare
309 → 300 news reports
▼29%
Policing Law Enforcement
310 → 539 news reports
▲27%
a rising share means the city's attention is turning toward it — not necessarily more incidents
top city themes
What New Delhi's news is about
Themes across the city's entire news coverage — ≈1.7M located reports — with each theme's momentum, its most specific keywords, and how the coverage feels. A CRITICAL badge means most of that theme's coverage is extremely negative.
Politics
▲110.3% growing
Multilateral Diplomacy · Geopolitical Alliances · Diplomatic Strategies · Diplomatic Engagements
63% negative coverage
Government
▲113.1% growing
Judicial Nominee · Tax Expenditure Oversight · Supreme Court Ruling · Judicial Vacancy
58% positive coverage
Business
▲52.9% growing
Industrial Sector Performance · Stock Performance · Commodity Futures · Ipo Prospectus
80% positive coverage
Finance
▲54.1% growing
Stock Performance · Stock Indices · Gold Spot Price · Commodity Futures
70% positive coverage
Economy
▲113.4% growing
Gold Spot Price · Stock Performance · Commodity Futures · Stock Indices
66% positive coverage
Technology
▲62.0% growing
Flagship Pricing · Ai Research · Ai Hardware · Business Smartphone
85% positive coverage
International Relations
▲122.9% growing
Multilateral Diplomacy · Geopolitical Alliances · Diplomatic Strategies · Diplomatic Engagements
50% positive coverage
Crime
▲60.0% growing
Bail Hearing · Bail Rights · Sexual Assault · Criminal Arraignment
100% negative coverage
Sports
▲96.8% growing
Test Cricket · 5-day Cricket · Test Innings · Odi Cricket
77% positive coverage
momentum window: Jan–Apr 2026 vs Sep–Dec 2025 · sentiment is a property of the news coverage, not a city rating
city signals
The character of New Delhi
- ✓National command center— Government, courts, defence and political voices dominate the city record.
- ✓Retail-manufacturing heavyweight— Both sectors score 10/10 across news, companies and mapped businesses.
- ✓Research powerhouse— IIT Delhi and Delhi University anchor 9189 locally produced papers.
- ✓Dense service economy— Corporate offices, software firms, shops and travel agencies fill the map.
- ✓Startup funding gap— 419 newer companies coexist with only 12 ever raising outside money.
- ✓Creative-digital talent— Employers seek English, design, video, marketing and search skills.
- ✓National business newsroom— Company results, appointments and succession news routinely carry a New Delhi dateline.
- ✓Safety under scrutiny— Bomb threats, air quality and stampede coverage are gaining ground.
everyday life
Living in New Delhi means…
- ✓sharing a very crowded capital— The gazetteer places it among the world's most crowded cities.
- ✓having shops close at hand— Clothing and electronics stores fill a vast street economy.
- ✓breathing politics every day— National leaders and coalition meetings keep the city politically loud.
- ✓watching air and safety closely— Air quality, bomb threats and road safety gained news attention.
- ✓living among research institutions— IIT Delhi, Delhi University, JNU and Jamia anchor local research.
- ✓finding culture beside commerce— Temples, palaces, malls, parks and stadiums share the city.
read from the news record — not a survey
hidden depth
Things most people don't know
- The New Delhi Tuberculosis Center contributes 43 papers, while the National Museum New Delhi contributes 2.
- Only 12 of 6033 tracked companies ever raised outside money, despite 419 formations since 2018.
- Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is the largest research topic about the city, with 46 papers.
- Manufacturers are the second-biggest named business type on the map, at 5251.
- Religious or communal framing is 5.4% of political speech, below the typical Indian-city 11%.