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Indian Banks Are Cleaning Up Their Data to Avoid RBI Scrutiny
RBI's bank data-quality score just posted its sharpest jump in nine quarters. The gain came from the sub-score that measures compliance with the rulebook, not the one that tests whether a bank's own numbers actually hold together.
September 23, 2026
Markets
Why India's Biggest Stock Exchange Took a Decade to List Itself
NSE's Rs 22,562 crore IPO is India's second-largest ever. What got the exchange here, and where its shares are about to trade, both tell a stranger story than the size of the raise.
September 23, 2026
Business
How a 1949 Law Keeps Mumbai's Movie Tickets Outside GST
BMC wants to raise the tax on a Mumbai multiplex ticket from Rs 60 to Rs 400 a show. The power behind that charge predates the GST by nearly seven decades, and GST was written to leave it standing.
September 23, 2026
Business
Rating Agencies Want India's Central Bank to Raise the Rate It Just Held
Four global forecasters raised India's FY27 growth outlook within the same week. Two of them paired the upgrade with a call for the RBI to raise a rate it has now held four meetings running.
September 23, 2026
Geopolitics
Apple Makes One in Four iPhones in India While China Barely Invests There
Apple assembles about a quarter of its iPhones in India, yet Beijing itself has barely invested here. Washington is now throwing Xi Jinping a state welcome, and the trade truce behind that warmth expires in weeks.
September 22, 2026
Technology
RatHat Steals Bank PINs Without Ever Touching the OTP
A new Android banking trojan reads PINs straight off the screen using the accessibility tool built for blind users. India's OTP defense never even sees it.
September 22, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Indian Banks Are Cleaning Up Their Data to Avoid RBI Scrutiny
RBI's bank data-quality score just posted its sharpest jump in nine quarters. The gain came from the sub-score that measures compliance with the rulebook, not the one that tests whether a bank's own numbers actually hold together.
September 23, 2026
Business
How a 1949 Law Keeps Mumbai's Movie Tickets Outside GST
BMC wants to raise the tax on a Mumbai multiplex ticket from Rs 60 to Rs 400 a show. The power behind that charge predates the GST by nearly seven decades, and GST was written to leave it standing.
September 23, 2026
Business
Rating Agencies Want India's Central Bank to Raise the Rate It Just Held
Four global forecasters raised India's FY27 growth outlook within the same week. Two of them paired the upgrade with a call for the RBI to raise a rate it has now held four meetings running.
September 23, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
RatHat Steals Bank PINs Without Ever Touching the OTP
A new Android banking trojan reads PINs straight off the screen using the accessibility tool built for blind users. India's OTP defense never even sees it.
September 22, 2026
Technology
India's Semiconductor Success Turned It Into a Sabotage Target
ASML confirmed it has started operating in India the same week its minister warned the chip industry to brace for cyberattacks. The mission's success, not despite it, is what created the target.
September 21, 2026
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
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
The Cancer Drug Price Cap That Covers Only 42 Medicines
The Supreme Court just called a tenfold cancer-drug markup 'dacoity, broad daylight dacoity.' India built a price cap for exactly this problem in 2019, and it still only reaches 42 named drugs.
September 23, 2026
Health
Fiji Declared an HIV Emergency Months After India's Largest Drug Gift
India just sent Fiji its largest-ever medicine gift for HIV. Ten months later Fiji declared a national emergency anyway, because the epidemic runs on needles, not on drug shortages.
September 18, 2026
Health
Blood Pressure Risk in Indian Women Triples Years Before Menopause
By their early thirties, Indian women's odds of raised blood pressure have already tripled. The average Indian woman does not reach menopause for another decade or more, and much of clinical practice still waits for her to get there.
September 17, 2026