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The UPI Fee India Said Was False Just Became Law
Parliament just handed the government the power to charge a UPI fee it dismissed as false fourteen months earlier. The survey data and the currency numbers suggest free UPI was never actually beating cash.
August 17, 2026
Markets
India's Recovering Foreign Flows Depend on a Japanese Miss
Japan's economy just posted the kind of soft number that usually worries markets. In India, it is doing the opposite: delaying a Bank of Japan hike that could interrupt a foreign-investor rebound that is still deep underwater for the year.
August 17, 2026
Geopolitics
China's Arctic Route Swaps the Suez Chokepoint for a Russian One
Sea Legend's new weekly Arctic service halves the sailing time between China and Europe. China has not escaped chokepoint risk, it has moved it to a route Russia controls, and India has no equivalent shortcut.
August 16, 2026
Geopolitics
Why Railways Leaves Over a Third of Its Amenities Budget Unspent
A fresh CAG audit found 89 percent of the railway stations it checked still fail on basics like water and toilets. What has not changed in five years is that Railways keeps leaving a third or more of its own amenities budget unspent.
August 16, 2026
Geopolitics
India Took Four Years Just to Start Negotiating a Submarine Deal
The request for six new submarines went out in 2021. Formal contract talks didn't start until 2025, and the deal is still unsigned while India's existing fleet ages and the region rearms.
August 16, 2026
Markets
A Decade of Foreign Investment in India's Stock Market Comes to Zero
Foreign investors have sold Indian equities hard through 2025 and 2026. But add up every year back to 2016 and net FII flows come to a rounding error, next to a market domestic money built the entire time.
August 15, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Three in Four Indian Space Startups Have Never Raised Equity Capital
A Tracxn count finds three in four Indian spacetech startups have never closed an equity round. The government fund built to fix that has not made a single investment either.
August 17, 2026
Business
The UPI Fee India Said Was False Just Became Law
Parliament just handed the government the power to charge a UPI fee it dismissed as false fourteen months earlier. The survey data and the currency numbers suggest free UPI was never actually beating cash.
August 17, 2026
Business
Blinkit Added More Stores in a Quarter Than Maharashtra's Hygiene Drive Inspected
Maharashtra's food safety drive flagged 87 percent of the dark stores it checked. That drive covered a sliver of the network Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart have built.
August 15, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Nvidia Is Now Financing the Data Centers That Buy Its Chips
Nvidia has lined up Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for the data centers that buy its chips. Wall Street has seen this circularity before, in Cisco and Lucent's dot-com bust.
August 12, 2026
Technology
The Rule That Killed Free Basics Just Let a Paid Fast Lane Through
India's net neutrality rule was built to ban paid fast lanes after the Free Basics fight. A 5G plan just tested it, and the regulator's first read found no violation.
July 31, 2026
Technology
Pronto Pays Its Workers Double to Wear Cameras on the Job
Pronto pays its home-service workers double to let a camera record the job for AI training data. The wage premium, not a consent process, is what actually buys the worker's participation.
July 30, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Why Kerala's Dengue Patients Are Twelve Times More Likely to Die Than Tamil Nadu's
Tamil Nadu carries India's biggest dengue caseload and one of its lowest death tolls; Kerala runs the opposite trade, with far fewer cases but far more deaths. The gap is Kerala's population, not its outbreak.
August 1, 2026
Health
India Meets Just 0.2 Percent of Its Own Heart Transplant Need
A new Lancet analysis finds India covers just 0.2 percent of its own heart transplant need and 7.2 percent of kidney need. The shortfall traces to where transplant capacity sits, not to how many people need one.
July 30, 2026
Health
India's Dementia Risk Is Led by a Lack of Schooling, Not Diabetes
A Bengaluru cohort study points to diabetes and hearing loss as India's dementia risk profile. The country's own nationally representative study names a different leading factor by a wide margin, and diabetes does not even reach significance.
July 30, 2026