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India's Renewables Are Shrinking Its Coal Bill While Its Oil Bill Grows
The IEA credits renewables with saving India more than $100 billion in fuel imports since 2011. Every dollar of it was coal and gas. Crude, the import whose bill jumped in 2026, cost $90.6 billion in six months.
November 12, 2026
Business
India's Tax Refund Surge Only Undoes Last Year's Slump
Refunds jumped 26 percent to Rs 3.08 lakh crore by November 10, barely above where they stood two years ago. Strip them out and individual taxpayers paid 10.6 percent more, the opposite of what the net figure suggests.
November 12, 2026
Markets
Coal India Is Listing the Subsidiary That Earns a Third of Its Profit
Mahanadi Coalfields made ₹10,698 crore of Coal India's ₹31,071 crore profit in the year to March 2026. Once it trades on its own, Coal India's stock starts to look like a holding company.
November 12, 2026
Business
One Vegetable Tipped India's Inflation Past 6%, but the RBI Is Watching the Core
Onion is 0.7% of the basket but added about half a point to October 2026's 6.09%; without it, inflation would have been about 5.59%. The number the RBI cares about is core, up for a third month.
November 12, 2026
Business
Two Foreign Banks Put More Into Indian Lenders Than Foreign Funds Sold in a Year
Blackstone's Rs 5,000 crore bet on IIFL Finance is new money for the lender, not an exit for a seller. MUFG and Emirates NBD alone put more fresh equity into Indian lenders in 2026 than foreign funds pulled out of financial stocks in all of 2025-26.
November 11, 2026
Business
Most of India's Battery Recyclers Just Lost Their Export Market
The ban keeps lithium, nickel and cobalt in India. It also leaves the shredders who make most of the country's black mass with only domestic refiners to sell to.
November 11, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Renewables Are Shrinking Its Coal Bill While Its Oil Bill Grows
The IEA credits renewables with saving India more than $100 billion in fuel imports since 2011. Every dollar of it was coal and gas. Crude, the import whose bill jumped in 2026, cost $90.6 billion in six months.
November 12, 2026
Business
India's Tax Refund Surge Only Undoes Last Year's Slump
Refunds jumped 26 percent to Rs 3.08 lakh crore by November 10, barely above where they stood two years ago. Strip them out and individual taxpayers paid 10.6 percent more, the opposite of what the net figure suggests.
November 12, 2026
Business
One Vegetable Tipped India's Inflation Past 6%, but the RBI Is Watching the Core
Onion is 0.7% of the basket but added about half a point to October 2026's 6.09%; without it, inflation would have been about 5.59%. The number the RBI cares about is core, up for a third month.
November 12, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
eMudhra Said Its Other Certificate Authorities Were Safe, Then Revoked Eight More
Firefox and Chrome blocked eMudhra's weak keys on the day they were reported. Three weeks later the Indian company revoked eight more issuers it had told Mozilla were not impacted, and that reversal, not the bug, is what ended its web certificate business.
November 12, 2026
Technology
US Voters Turned on Data Centres Over Who Pays for the Power
Three in four voters in a US exit poll oppose data centres in their communities. The grid's own market monitor says other customers have paid $29.4 billion for them, and India is about to build the same load.
November 8, 2026
Technology
India Runs 500 Million Bank Data Consents and Now Calls Consent Impractical for AI
India's banking data network asks for a consent every time data moves. A new government handbook for AI training says that step is impractical at scale and moves the safeguard elsewhere.
November 4, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
The Cancers Diabetes Raises Most Are the Ones India Does Not Screen
India's screening programme checks the same adults for diabetes and for three cancers. Of the six cancers with robust links to diabetes, it looks for one.
November 11, 2026
Health
Delhi Added 13 Air Monitors and Its Pollution Average Fell
Thirteen new monitors read PM2.5 about 35 percent lower than their older neighbours, and the city average dropped with them. The difference is 11 points. What it tests is how Delhi decides what its air is.
November 7, 2026
Health
India Could Prevent 400,000 Deaths a Year by Changing the Salt, Not the Eater
A new Nature Health model puts the India toll avoided by potassium-enriched salt near 400,000 deaths a year. Salt-cutting campaigns ask people to change. This changes the product instead.
November 7, 2026