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Markets
NSE's Own IPO Won't Put a Rupee in NSE's Pocket
NSE has filed papers for an estimated Rs 30,000 crore IPO, poised to be India's largest ever. Every rupee of it is existing owners selling shares they already hold; the exchange itself collects none of it.
July 6, 2026
Business
India Raised the Rural Job Guarantee and Cut the Centre's Share of the Bill
VB-G RAM G promises more days of guaranteed work and a higher minimum wage than MGNREGA ever did. To fund it, the law hands states a share of a bill Delhi used to cover alone.
July 6, 2026
Geopolitics
The Navy Wants Three Times as Many Agniveers as Agnipath Allows
India's Navy is reportedly asking to keep about 75% of its first Agniveer batch, and the Army and Air Force near 50%. Agnipath's founding pitch was built on keeping a quarter.
July 6, 2026
Business
Delhi and Goa Already Sit Above the Income Line India Has Missed for 19 Years
The World Bank has kept India in its lower-middle-income group for 19 straight fiscal-year reviews. Convert what Delhi and Goa actually produce per head into the same dollars, and both already clear the line the whole country has not.
July 6, 2026
Science
India's Satellite-Kill Debris Outlived Its Own 45-Day Promise
India's 2019 anti-satellite test was engineered to clean up after itself within 45 days. The last catalogued fragment did not decay for more than three years, and India's own satellite fleet now flies through what is left.
July 5, 2026
Business
India Diversified Its LNG Buyers But Kept Rationing Gas Anyway
India's emergency gas rationing order outlasted its own fix: allocations were back near normal by April, but the order itself stayed live until the Strait of Hormuz reopened in July.
July 5, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
One New Smelter Will Outproduce All of Hindalco's Aluminium Capacity
Adani and Abu Dhabi's IHC are building an Odisha smelter bigger than Hindalco's entire output, the clearest sign yet that India's two-player aluminium market is ending.
July 6, 2026
Business
India Raised the Rural Job Guarantee and Cut the Centre's Share of the Bill
VB-G RAM G promises more days of guaranteed work and a higher minimum wage than MGNREGA ever did. To fund it, the law hands states a share of a bill Delhi used to cover alone.
July 6, 2026
Business
Delhi and Goa Already Sit Above the Income Line India Has Missed for 19 Years
The World Bank has kept India in its lower-middle-income group for 19 straight fiscal-year reviews. Convert what Delhi and Goa actually produce per head into the same dollars, and both already clear the line the whole country has not.
July 6, 2026
Technology & Science
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
Technology
India's AI Money Is Going Into GCCs, Not Frontier Labs
HCLTech, TCS, Infosys and Reliance are booking billions in AI dealflow this year, and India's GCCs already run a $98.4 billion AI-delivery business. None of that capital is building India a frontier model of its own.
July 3, 2026
Technology
India's AI Rules Are Being Written in Four Places at Once
A Supreme Court committee, a ministry, and two industry lobbies are each writing India's AI rules in 2026, without waiting for Parliament to pass a central law first.
July 3, 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
India's C-Section Rate Is Rising Fastest Where Hospitals Get Paid Per Procedure
India's caesarean rate has nearly doubled the WHO's ceiling. The sharpest divide isn't between sick and healthy mothers, it's between hospitals paid per procedure and hospitals that aren't.
July 3, 2026
Health
Government Schemes Cover 42 Percent of India's Insured, Pay 8 Percent of the Premium
For the first time on record, more of rural India carries health insurance than urban India. Almost all of that growth is riding in on government schemes that pay insurers a fraction of what commercial cover does.
July 3, 2026