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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
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
Geopolitics
Pakistan's Public Has Already Picked China, Pact or Not
Delhi's press calls the new Turkiye-Pakistan-Saudi pact a fresh security threat. Its combined military budget barely outspends India's own, and Pakistan's public had already picked China long before the pact was signed.
August 15, 2026
Business
Before This Scheme Existed, Taxpayers Had Already Disclosed Rs 29,208 Crore
A one-time window for small taxpayers with undisclosed foreign assets opens August 16, 2026, framed as a fresh chance at leniency. CBDT's own numbers show a separate disclosure drive had already pulled in more money than the last full amnesty ever raised, years before this scheme existed.
August 15, 2026
Business & Markets
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
Business
Before This Scheme Existed, Taxpayers Had Already Disclosed Rs 29,208 Crore
A one-time window for small taxpayers with undisclosed foreign assets opens August 16, 2026, framed as a fresh chance at leniency. CBDT's own numbers show a separate disclosure drive had already pulled in more money than the last full amnesty ever raised, years before this scheme existed.
August 15, 2026
Business
Indian IT's Billing Model Is Breaking Under AI Discounting
TCS just posted its first full-year revenue decline in company history. In the same window, Coforge grew revenue 33 percent. The gap is the billing model, not the technology.
August 14, 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