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How India's Bid to Cool Sugar Prices Raised Them Abroad
India opened duty free sugar imports to calm retail prices at home. The FAO's own numbers show that announcement was one of the reasons the world price, the one India will actually pay, jumped instead.
September 5, 2026
Markets
India Brought Its Gold Home While Europe Just Moves It Between Vaults
The Dutch central bank just moved 86 tonnes of gold from New York and Ottawa to London, citing 'geopolitical unrest.' The Reserve Bank of India answered the same question years ago, and did it by bringing the metal home.
September 5, 2026
Markets
CCI Found a Debenture Trustee Cartel and Fined No One
The competition regulator held India's debenture-trustee cartel guilty of fixing fees for years. It fined every one of them zero rupees.
September 4, 2026
Business
RBI's Rupee Rescue Carries a $5.7 Billion Annual Bill
RBI's dollar-deposit facility drew a record $136 billion and closed a month early, its own success outrunning its target. Analysts estimate the bill RBI itself is carrying for that rescue at $5.7 billion a year.
September 4, 2026
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
Technology
India Has Zero Ships That Can Fix Its Undersea Internet Cables
Up to 95 percent of India's international data to Europe, Africa and West Asia funnels through cables landing on one stretch of Mumbai coast, and India owns no ship that can repair a cut one.
September 4, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
How India's Bid to Cool Sugar Prices Raised Them Abroad
India opened duty free sugar imports to calm retail prices at home. The FAO's own numbers show that announcement was one of the reasons the world price, the one India will actually pay, jumped instead.
September 5, 2026
Business
RBI's Rupee Rescue Carries a $5.7 Billion Annual Bill
RBI's dollar-deposit facility drew a record $136 billion and closed a month early, its own success outrunning its target. Analysts estimate the bill RBI itself is carrying for that rescue at $5.7 billion a year.
September 4, 2026
Business
The Same GDP Data Produced a 7.8% Growth Rate and a 2.6% One
A critique of India's headline 7.8% GDP print puts real growth at just 2.6%, using the same Rs 88.27 lakh crore both sides agree on. The fight is over which year you compare it to, and that same base year sets the government's own deficit and debt ratios.
September 3, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India Has Zero Ships That Can Fix Its Undersea Internet Cables
Up to 95 percent of India's international data to Europe, Africa and West Asia funnels through cables landing on one stretch of Mumbai coast, and India owns no ship that can repair a cut one.
September 4, 2026
Technology
Anthropic's AI Safety Net Guards the Operating System, Not Your Files
An AI coding agent wiped out 15 percent of a decade of Bengaluru heritage records while its own safety system blocked two attempts to stop it. The safeguard worked exactly as designed. It was just never designed to protect this.
September 2, 2026
Technology
China's Most Valuable Listed Firm Makes the Chip Washington Tried to Block
CXMT's stock market debut made it China's most valuable listed company, years after a US rule tried to keep it from fabricating advanced memory chips. India's flagship chip investment, by contrast, only assembles and tests memory made elsewhere.
August 30, 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