Foreign portfolio investors put 30,919 crore rupees into Indian shares in August, a second straight month of net buying. Even so, the 2026 net outflow stands at 2.23 lakh crore rupees, above all of 2025. In the same window Jio Platforms won listing clearance and HDFC Bank's chief executive declined a new term.
August was the second consecutive month in which foreign portfolio investors bought Indian shares. They put 30,919 crore rupees into equities in August. Even so, the net outflow for 2026 stands at 2.23 lakh crore rupees, above the 1.66 lakh crore rupees recorded in the whole of 2025. The buying is attributed to improving corporate earnings and a stable macroeconomic backdrop, with crude oil prices and US bond yields left as the open questions.[1]
CDSL data show withdrawals of 49,340 crore rupees in June, 32,963 crore rupees in May, 60,847 crore rupees in April and 1.17 lakh crore rupees in March, after purchases of 22,615 crore rupees in February. On the debt side, 627 crore rupees came in through the Fully Accessible Route and 289 crore rupees through the Voluntary Retention Route, while 2,318 crore rupees left through the general route.[1]
Jio Platforms, the telecom and technology arm of Reliance Industries, has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India to start its initial public offering, according to information on the regulator's website. Bankers estimate the offering could raise about 370 billion rupees, roughly 4 billion dollars, which would make it India's largest public issue. HDFC Bank, India's largest private-sector lender, said its board was told at a Saturday meeting that chief executive Sashidhar Jagdishan would not seek reappointment; he leaves at the close of business on 26 October 2026.[2], [3]
