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TCS Hired 9,279 Workers as Elara Securities Cut Its Target 17 Percent
TCS's Q1 FY27 results split analysts down the middle: one broker cut its price target, another raised it. The company's own hiring, its fastest pace in four years, says more about AI and Indian IT jobs than either note.
July 10, 2026
Markets
SBI Mutual Fund's IPO Rests on a Distribution Edge That Keeps Shrinking
SBI Funds Management is pricing its IPO on the strength of India's biggest bank-branch network. AMFI's own data show direct plans, which bypass exactly that network, have been taking share for years.
July 10, 2026
Markets
RBI Defended the Rupee With Dollars It Does Not Yet Have
RBI's headline reserves fell $61.6 billion from their February 2026 peak defending the rupee. Its record forward-dollar book, the bill that has not come due yet, grew larger still.
July 10, 2026
Business
Russia's Share of India's Oil Imports Hit a Record as the Discount Vanished
Russia's share of India's crude imports broke 50 percent in June, a record, just as the price discount that first justified the switch narrowed to almost nothing. A war that shut the Strait of Hormuz explains why.
July 9, 2026
Business
India's Credit Card Delinquency Rate Is Falling Because the Risk Moved Elsewhere
Credit card delinquency, the number everyone watches for consumer stress, keeps improving. That is because the riskiest borrowers can no longer get a card at all, so they get a personal loan instead, and the loan book is absorbing the strain the card book used to show.
July 9, 2026
Technology
The Spam-Free Number Series India Built Is Now Full of Spam
TRAI reserved the 1600 number series for government and BFSI callers and legally barred apps like Truecaller from flagging it as spam. Truecaller's own data says spam moved in anyway, and by law, nobody can tag it.
July 9, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Food Prices Have Already Cleared the RBI's Inflation Target
India's food prices are already above the Reserve Bank's 4% inflation target, and the RBI's own forecast shows it. The monsoon risk behind that number is still getting worse, not better.
July 10, 2026
Business
TCS Hired 9,279 Workers as Elara Securities Cut Its Target 17 Percent
TCS's Q1 FY27 results split analysts down the middle: one broker cut its price target, another raised it. The company's own hiring, its fastest pace in four years, says more about AI and Indian IT jobs than either note.
July 10, 2026
Business
Russia's Share of India's Oil Imports Hit a Record as the Discount Vanished
Russia's share of India's crude imports broke 50 percent in June, a record, just as the price discount that first justified the switch narrowed to almost nothing. A war that shut the Strait of Hormuz explains why.
July 9, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
The Spam-Free Number Series India Built Is Now Full of Spam
TRAI reserved the 1600 number series for government and BFSI callers and legally barred apps like Truecaller from flagging it as spam. Truecaller's own data says spam moved in anyway, and by law, nobody can tag it.
July 9, 2026
Technology
Samsung's Chip Profit Windfall Is Coming Out of Its Own Phone Business
Samsung just guided a record, 19-fold jump in quarterly profit on the AI-driven memory shortage. The same shortage is projected to cut its own phone division's profit by roughly 61 percent, and it is already squeezing which phones Indian buyers can afford.
July 7, 2026
Technology
Anyone Within Fifteen Metres Can Turn Off a Delhi E-Rickshaw
A Bluetooth app let strangers stall e-rickshaws mid-shift for a laugh, and the government pulled it within a day. The unregistered fleet and unvetted batteries behind it are untouched.
July 4, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
A 40-50 Billion Rupee Industry Warning Kept Thiram Legal in India
India drafted a 2020 order restricting the fungicide Thiram. An industry warning about a market worth 40-50 billion rupees made sure the draft never became a rule.
July 3, 2026
Health
Rural Telangana Men Now Drink and Smoke More Than the Cities
Rural Telangana's men now drink and smoke more than the men in its own cities. The disease hasn't caught up yet on paper, but the state already ties for India's worst kidney damage from it.
July 3, 2026
Health
This Cancer Blood Test Flags 2,362 False Alarms For Every Real Case
Zydus and Apollo are bringing a blood test for colorectal cancer to India. Run its own published accuracy against how rare the disease actually is, and most of its positive results will not be cancer.
July 3, 2026