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Jio's 2020 Backers Are Trailing the Nifty
Facebook, Google and a dozen other investors priced Jio Platforms near Rs 4.6 lakh crore in 2020. The IPO SEBI cleared in August 2026 targets nearly double that, but the Nifty and Nasdaq still did better over the same six years.
August 29, 2026
Business
A 3 Percent Gold Drop Just Breached India's Loan to Value Ceiling
Gold fell 3 percent the day the Fed's new chair turned hawkish. Because RBI caps gold loans at a fixed share of collateral value at all times, that one move pushed a slice of India's biggest gold lenders past their ceiling.
August 29, 2026
Markets
UPI Processed More Transactions in One Month Than the Digital Rupee Ever Has
The RBI wants BRICS partners to link central bank digital currencies to a rail it is building at home. That rail's wholesale segment has processed zero rupees for two straight years running.
August 29, 2026
Business
India's Own Quality Rules Are Turning Away the Factories It Wants
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal just led India's biggest-ever trade delegation to Japan chasing factory investment. The compliance regime his own government built is what a trade think tank says prices ordinary manufacturers out first.
August 29, 2026
Business
RBI Toughens Digital Banking Rules as the Real Money Moves to Loans
RBI just made banks prove customers weren't careless before denying a digital-fraud claim. The money problem it doesn't touch, loan fraud, is now 85 percent of everything banks report losing.
August 29, 2026
Business
Mumbai Milk Crosses Rs 100 Because Maharashtra Sets the Farmer Price Floor
A Rs 9 wholesale jump crossing Rs 100 a litre looks like dairies chasing margins. It traces to a 2024 state order that legally fixes what every dairy, cooperative or private, must pay farmers.
August 29, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
The RBI Tenure Cap Does Not Explain HDFC Bank CEO's Exit
Sashidhar Jagdishan is retiring five months after HDFC Bank's chairman quit citing personal ethics, and nine years before the RBI's tenure cap would force him out. The bank's lending margin, not the regulator's clock, looks like the more likely story.
August 30, 2026
Business
A 3 Percent Gold Drop Just Breached India's Loan to Value Ceiling
Gold fell 3 percent the day the Fed's new chair turned hawkish. Because RBI caps gold loans at a fixed share of collateral value at all times, that one move pushed a slice of India's biggest gold lenders past their ceiling.
August 29, 2026
Business
India's Own Quality Rules Are Turning Away the Factories It Wants
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal just led India's biggest-ever trade delegation to Japan chasing factory investment. The compliance regime his own government built is what a trade think tank says prices ordinary manufacturers out first.
August 29, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
ChatGPT Ads Reach India Three Days After Europe, Before Its Privacy Rules Bind
OpenAI turned on ChatGPT ads in India on August 27, three days after the same feature launched across Europe under a GDPR consent rule. India will not have an equivalent operative rule until mid-2027.
August 28, 2026
Technology
India's SIM Cap Can't Reach Rings That Split Connections Across Many Buyers
A new circular blocks anyone who already holds nine connections from getting a tenth. A ring that spreads its SIMs across many separate buyers, each under the limit, never trips it.
August 21, 2026
Technology
India Regulates What Meta Posts, Not How Meta Is Built
A 29-state trial against Meta rests on product-liability law, not speech law, the same route once used against tobacco companies. India's IT Rules and DPDP Act can order a takedown or fine a data violation, but neither can reach the algorithm itself.
August 19, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
The Pancreatic Cancer Drug That Doubles Survival Costs 173 Times India's Income
Daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival in advanced pancreatic cancer and just cleared the FDA at $477,600 a year. In India, that is 173 times the average income, and most patients are diagnosed too late for it to matter anyway.
August 27, 2026
Health
PM2.5 Carries the Largest Cancer Risk of Any Studied Air Pollutant
A new global study puts PM2.5 ahead of nitrogen dioxide and ozone as the pollutant most linked to cancer. India's air runs more than ten times over the WHO's guideline for it, which is exactly where the larger number lands.
August 26, 2026
Health
South Asians Are Almost Absent From the Databases That Calibrate Global Medicine
South Asians are close to a quarter of humanity, but the genomic databases that build disease-risk scores and drug-dosing guidance include almost none of them. The gap already shows up in a heart drug that fails more often and a risk score that reads worse.
August 21, 2026