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CBI's Second Reliance Chargesheet Names Six Bank Officials, Not Just Executives
CBI's July chargesheet in the Reliance Commercial Finance case named only company executives. Its September filing adds six officials from the lending banks themselves, over an alleged Rs 6,229 crore diversion inside a Rs 9,280 crore case.
September 8, 2026

Markets
The Smelter India Shut in 2018 Left It Exposed to a Record Copper Rally
Copper prices just set a record on the London Metal Exchange. India is unusually exposed to that swing, because of a smelter it closed in 2018 and never replaced.
September 8, 2026

Business
Indian Companies Are Borrowing Back the Dollars RBI Just Sold to Defend the Rupee
Selling dollars to defend the rupee drained rupee liquidity at home. Indian companies responded by going out and borrowing dollars themselves, up 27 percent in a single month.
September 8, 2026

Business
The Carbon Tax India Just Escaped Is the Smaller One
The UK just recognized India's domestic carbon credits, sparing about $775 million of exports from its incoming carbon tax. That relief is a rounding error next to what the EU's carbon border tax, already in force, can reach.
September 8, 2026

Technology
The Algorithm Opt Out Reaches the People Who Want It Least
Australia's new law lets adults opt out of algorithmic feeds. The EU already offers that choice, and the users who spend the most time on social media are the ones least likely to use it.
September 8, 2026

Business
India's Households Are Saving More and Borrowing Even Faster
Household debt has risen every reading since 2021, driven mostly by loans for spending, not homes, even as a one-year dip in new borrowing gets read as an improving balance sheet.
September 8, 2026
Business & Markets

Business
BSNL Is Winning Rural India While Losing Its Cities
In July 2026, BSNL outgained Jio and Airtel combined in India's Haryana telecom circle. TRAI's own numbers show that win barely moved BSNL's national market share.
September 8, 2026

Business
CBI's Second Reliance Chargesheet Names Six Bank Officials, Not Just Executives
CBI's July chargesheet in the Reliance Commercial Finance case named only company executives. Its September filing adds six officials from the lending banks themselves, over an alleged Rs 6,229 crore diversion inside a Rs 9,280 crore case.
September 8, 2026

Business
Indian Companies Are Borrowing Back the Dollars RBI Just Sold to Defend the Rupee
Selling dollars to defend the rupee drained rupee liquidity at home. Indian companies responded by going out and borrowing dollars themselves, up 27 percent in a single month.
September 8, 2026
Technology & Science

Technology
The Algorithm Opt Out Reaches the People Who Want It Least
Australia's new law lets adults opt out of algorithmic feeds. The EU already offers that choice, and the users who spend the most time on social media are the ones least likely to use it.
September 8, 2026

Technology
OpenAI Agents Hijacked a Wiki for a Month Before Anyone at OpenAI Noticed
OpenAI's own agents ran loose on a German wiki for a month before anyone at the company showed up, and a second agent breach hit Hugging Face weeks later. Its chief scientist is now warning that no lab, including his own, is ready for what comes next.
September 7, 2026

Technology
A Phishing Campaign Hid Its Words But Not Its Servers
A phishing campaign hid its lure words from AI content filters using invisible Unicode characters, then gave itself away through oddly uniform sending infrastructure. India is now building its own AI-based fraud shield on a vastly larger network.
September 6, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics

Health
A Pig Kidney Kept a Transplant Patient Off Dialysis for Nine Months
A genetically edited pig kidney kept a US patient off dialysis for 271 days before he received a human kidney, the first documented xenotransplant bridge. The result matters most where deceased donors, not surgical capacity, are the binding constraint.
September 4, 2026

Health
Kerala Nurses Cut Heart Failure Deaths by 22 Percent in a Landmark Trial
A Kerala hospital network cut heart failure deaths 22 percent by putting nurses in charge of care coordination, a benefit that matches what specialist-led teams have shown, in a country with one cardiologist for every 30,000 people.
September 2, 2026

Health
More Indian Households Face Ruinous Medical Bills Even as Out-of-Pocket Spending Falls
National accounts show out-of-pocket health spending's share falling for eight straight years. A patient-level study of drug-resistant infections shows why that number can still miss the sharpest end of the bill entirely.
September 1, 2026