Volume, sentiment, and materiality across the NSE, BSE, and regulatory filings Gunpowder analyzes — computed from the live corpus at every site build, scored by the same pipeline that powers our daily digests.
Gunpowder Alerts has analyzed 64,814 filings across 5,133 daily digests since February 2026 — every number below is recomputed from that corpus at each site build.
Data through · statistics describe Gunpowder’s analyzed corpus, not a census of every exchange announcement · how we score filings
Mergers and acquisitions are the highest-volume disclosure category in Gunpowder’s India corpus. Listed companies must disclose deal activity — acquisitions, stake purchases, demergers, schemes of arrangement — to NSE and BSE under SEBI’s LODR Regulation 30, and an acquisition that crosses the takeover thresholds triggers a mandatory open offer to public shareholders.
Company updates are the catch-all of Indian market disclosure — the material events listed companies must announce under SEBI’s LODR Regulation 30: new orders, plant shutdowns, regulatory approvals, litigation, management commentary. Since the 2023 LODR amendment these carry hard deadlines — 12 hours for events originating within the company, 24 hours otherwise, and 30 minutes for board-meeting outcomes.
India’s IPO pipeline runs on paper: a company files a draft red herring prospectus with SEBI, answers regulator observations, prices the issue, and lists on NSE and BSE — each stage producing public filings. This page aggregates the IPO filing, listing, and new-listing disclosures in Gunpowder’s corpus.
Insolvency disclosures track companies through India’s bankruptcy process: petitions before the NCLT, admissions into the corporate insolvency resolution process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, moratoriums, resolution plans, and liquidation orders. For shareholders these are often the most material filings a company ever makes.
Every board meeting of a listed Indian company produces at least two filings: a prior intimation under LODR Regulation 29 announcing what the board will consider, and an outcome — results, dividends, fundraising decisions — disclosed within 30 minutes of the meeting’s close. The intimation sets expectations; the outcome settles them.
When promoters, directors, or large shareholders of an Indian listed company trade its shares, SEBI’s disclosure regimes put it on the public record: PIT regulations cover insider trades, SAST regulations cover substantial stake build-ups and sell-downs. Watching these filings is the closest the market gets to reading insiders’ minds.
Corporate governance disclosures track who runs a listed company and on whose behalf: board and committee changes, director appointments and resignations, quarterly governance reports and shareholding patterns, related-party disclosures, and meeting voting results. They are one of the highest-volume categories in Gunpowder’s India corpus — the steady administrative pulse of the market, punctuated by the occasional resignation letter that moves a stock.
Debt-security filings cover the listed-bond side of the market: NCD issues and allotments, interest and redemption intimations, record dates for debt instruments, credit-rating actions, and security-cover statements. Equity investors often skip them — a mistake, because credit stress almost always shows up in the debt segment before it reaches the share price.
Corporate-action filings are the entitlement machinery of the market: record dates, dividends, bonus issues, splits, rights entitlements, and buyback schedules, each intimated to the exchanges in advance under LODR Regulation 42. Individually routine, collectively they are the filings that decide who gets paid.
Filing categories with at least 50 analyzed filings.
| Filing category | Filings |
|---|---|
| Merger/Acquisition | 16,701 |
| Corporate Governance | 14,070 |
| Debt Securities | 5,202 |
| Market Update | 4,169 |
| Company Update | 4,137 |
| Market Notice | 3,965 |
| Analyst/Investor Meet | 3,187 |
| Insolvency | 2,678 |
| Regulatory Action | 1,928 |
| Corporate Action | 1,839 |
| IPO Listing | 1,594 |
| Rate Change | 713 |
| Insider Trading Disclosure | 670 |
| Board Meeting | 537 |
| Banking Regulation | 482 |
| Director Resignation | 301 |
| Market Holiday | 257 |
| Agm/Egm | 237 |
| Result | 225 |
| Corp. Action | 213 |
| Insider Trading / Sast | 210 |
| SEBI Enforcement | 203 |
| Buyback | 141 |
| Others | 125 |
| Default | 119 |
| Open Offer | 114 |
| Rumour Verification | 114 |
| Monetary Policy | 113 |
| Corp Action | 89 |
| Encumbrance | 89 |
| General Updates | 83 |
| Fraud Investigation | 73 |
| Index Update | 73 |
| Trading Suspension | 70 |
Pipeline-assigned sentiment at analysis time, 64,385 scored filings.
| Positive | 13,862 (22%) | |
|---|---|---|
| Neutral | 38,905 (60%) | |
| Mixed | 7,301 (11%) | |
| Negative | 4,317 (7%) | |
Filings analyzed by Gunpowder per calendar month, by filing date.
| Month | Filings | Relative volume |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | 1,200 | |
| Mar 2026 | 13,407 | |
| Apr 2026 | 9,212 | |
| May 2026 | 9,801 | |
| Jun 2026 | 7,703 | |
| Jul 2026 | 6,288 | |
| Aug 2026 | 5,842 | |
| Sep 2026 | 5,159 | |
| Oct 2026 | 6,117 | |
| Nov 2026 | 85 | |
New to Indian market filings? The Learn section explains each filing type in plain English — what it is, who files it, and on what deadline — and links back to the live numbers on these pages.