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Health
The Ebola Vaccine That Worked in 2020 Was Never Tested Against This Virus
DRC's current outbreak is a different Ebola species than the one the proven ring-vaccination vaccine was built for, and WHO has restricted that vaccine to research use only. India already holds 620,000 doses of a substitute still waiting on trial data.
September 13, 2026
Business
Delhi's Post-Collapse Drive Reached 67 Buildings, Not Two Lakh Rooms
MCD demolished 67 buildings and sealed nine more within 48 hours of the Satya Niketan collapse. Delhi's unlicensed PG market runs an estimated two lakh rooms deep, and the enforcement math was never built to reach it.
September 13, 2026
Business
PwC Cut Its Global Headcount and Gave India More Control
PwC's global headcount fell even as its consulting revenue grew. Its answer, a new joint venture with PwC India, puts the CEO's chair in India, not at the US head office.
September 13, 2026
Business
India Is Formalising Its Young Workforce, Not Its Women
EPFO's newest payroll data show India's formal job market turning younger. It is not turning more female: women account for only about 28 percent of the new accounts.
September 13, 2026
Technology
China Just Revived the Underwater Data Center Microsoft Gave Up On
Microsoft proved underwater servers fail less than land based ones, then walked away. China just switched on 2,000 seafloor servers outside Shanghai anyway, a lesson for India's hot, land based buildout.
September 13, 2026
Markets
India Now Holds More Foreign Reserves Than Russia Can Spend
India's forex reserves jumped $44.9 billion in a single week to a record $785.7 billion, edging past Russia's total on the same date. But a large share of what Russia counts in that number is frozen under Western sanctions, so the raw crossover overstates how much ground India has actually closed.
September 12, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
RBI Rejected Tata Sons' Bid to Escape Being Listed
Tata Sons spent two and a half years trying to surrender its NBFC licence and escape a mandatory stock listing altogether. RBI just closed that door for good.
September 13, 2026
Business
Delhi's Post-Collapse Drive Reached 67 Buildings, Not Two Lakh Rooms
MCD demolished 67 buildings and sealed nine more within 48 hours of the Satya Niketan collapse. Delhi's unlicensed PG market runs an estimated two lakh rooms deep, and the enforcement math was never built to reach it.
September 13, 2026
Business
PwC Cut Its Global Headcount and Gave India More Control
PwC's global headcount fell even as its consulting revenue grew. Its answer, a new joint venture with PwC India, puts the CEO's chair in India, not at the US head office.
September 13, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
China Just Revived the Underwater Data Center Microsoft Gave Up On
Microsoft proved underwater servers fail less than land based ones, then walked away. China just switched on 2,000 seafloor servers outside Shanghai anyway, a lesson for India's hot, land based buildout.
September 13, 2026
Technology
Anthropic's Weapons Safeguards Only Work in Hindsight
Anthropic's own threat report says it stopped a Yemen missile cell and an Iran-nexus operation tracking US warships. Both disclosures arrived only after the misuse had already run its course.
September 11, 2026
Technology
ChatGPT's Cricket Sponsorship Works Out to Under a Rupee a Viewer
OpenAI is paying Rs 1.2 crore a match to sponsor BCCI's home cricket season. Weighed against India's biggest recent cricket audiences, that works out to a few paise a viewer, far below what a digital ad costs to reach the same person.
September 9, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
The Ebola Vaccine That Worked in 2020 Was Never Tested Against This Virus
DRC's current outbreak is a different Ebola species than the one the proven ring-vaccination vaccine was built for, and WHO has restricted that vaccine to research use only. India already holds 620,000 doses of a substitute still waiting on trial data.
September 13, 2026
Health
Why India's Smoke-Free Law Didn't Clear the Workplace
COTPA's public-place smoking ban has averaged roughly 72 percent compliance nationally, and secondhand-smoke exposure at home fell sharply between India's last two tobacco surveys. In the workplace, the law's own target, exposure barely moved.
September 10, 2026
Health
The Anemia Rate Threatening India's Next Working Generation
A new study finds infants of anemic mothers have measurably smaller brains, with the gap still visible years later. India's anemia rate, nearly double the global average, keeps climbing rather than falling.
September 9, 2026