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Business

RBI Removed the Minister but Not the System That Elected Him

The RBI removed Maharashtra's Cooperation Minister from a district cooperative bank board for overstaying his term. Seven colleagues quietly resigned over the same complaint; he alone needed a direct order.

September 20, 2026

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Technology

The Lawsuit That Says AI Labs Colluded by Trying to Be Safe

Four subscribers say Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google's joint safety pledge was an illegal slowdown pact. The case lands in a regulatory vacuum antitrust law never filled.

September 20, 2026

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Markets

Saudi Arabia Exited China's mBridge 16 Months Before Anyone Noticed

Saudi Arabia's central bank quietly finished leaving China's cross-border digital currency bridge in May 2025. The exit surfaced sixteen months later, and the delay says more about the dollar than the news does.

September 20, 2026

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Geopolitics

Pentagon Investigators Fault AI Reliance in a School Strike That Killed About 120 Children

Pentagon investigators say excessive reliance on an AI targeting tool contributed to a strike that killed about 120 children in Iran. Congress still wants to know if a human ever verified the target, and India is building a similar AI-driven kill chain.

September 20, 2026

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Business

Worn Fingerprints Could Cost India's Poorest Their Cooking Gas Subsidy

India's LPG subsidy now runs on a fingerprint scan. The same biometric checkpoint has a documented history of locking out the elderly and manual labourers it is meant to protect, not the duplicate connections it was built to catch.

September 20, 2026

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Markets

NSE Paid Rs 1,491 Crore to Settle a Case It Never Admitted To

SEBI's consent mechanism let NSE close a decade-old colocation case for about Rs 1,492 crore without confirming or denying guilt, right as its own IPO opened for bids.

September 19, 2026

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