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India's New Crypto Self-Regulator Cannot Reach the Traders It Was Built For
A parliamentary panel wants crypto exchanges to police themselves, weeks after the RBI told the same committee virtual digital assets should not be legalised at all. Both proposals arrive years after India's own tax regime pushed most trading beyond either body's reach.
July 25, 2026
Business
India's New Financial ID Turns One Breach Into an All-Accounts Breach
CKYC 2.0 lets banks, insurers and mutual funds pull one customer's record with a single consent. That convenience is also the risk: one breach, or one coerced consent, can now expose an entire financial profile instead of one institution's slice of it.
July 25, 2026
Geopolitics
Education's Share of India's Spending Kept Falling Even as the Money Grew
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as India's education minister this week, forced out by weeks of protest over the NEET-UG paper leak. The system he ran had been losing budget ground to health, and to its own funding target, for years before the leak.
July 25, 2026
Science
LIGO-India Is Being Built to Match a Sensitivity Tier the US Only Reaches This Year
LIGO-India's Aundha detector is designed to match the A+ sensitivity the US network is only months from finishing. India's own construction runs years longer, and the US roadmap already names the tier after A+.
July 25, 2026
Business
RBI's Data Governance Draft Falls Hardest on India's Smallest NBFCs
RBI's new draft data governance rules ask a five-branch NBFC to install the same senior data officer as a nationalised bank. The mandate lands on lenders whose loans are a sixth the market's average size.
July 24, 2026
Markets
RBI's Dollar Sales to Defend the Rupee Are Tightening Its Own Banks
Every dollar the RBI sells to defend the rupee pulls a matching sum of rupees out of the banking system. That mechanism is now running into a liquidity surplus already at a three-week low.
July 24, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's New Financial ID Turns One Breach Into an All-Accounts Breach
CKYC 2.0 lets banks, insurers and mutual funds pull one customer's record with a single consent. That convenience is also the risk: one breach, or one coerced consent, can now expose an entire financial profile instead of one institution's slice of it.
July 25, 2026
Business
RBI's Data Governance Draft Falls Hardest on India's Smallest NBFCs
RBI's new draft data governance rules ask a five-branch NBFC to install the same senior data officer as a nationalised bank. The mandate lands on lenders whose loans are a sixth the market's average size.
July 24, 2026
Business
India's Services Boom Just Became Its Growth Problem
India's composite PMI just hit a four-year low, but split the number in two and manufacturing barely moved. Services, the sector that has carried Indian growth since the pandemic, did nearly all the falling.
July 24, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India Answered the AI Copyright Question the US Courts Still Haven't
The Delhi High Court just ruled that training ChatGPT on a newswire's content is fair dealing, weighing 100 million weekly Indian users against one publisher's claim. The US and Canada haven't gotten this far.
July 24, 2026
Technology
AMD's Two Chip Deals Now Nearly Match India's Entire Data Centre Pipeline
AMD's two AI chip deals commit up to 8 GW of capacity between them, just short of India's entire 8.33 GW data centre pipeline. The binding constraint was never capital.
July 23, 2026
Technology
India's Child Consent Rule Is Stricter Than France's Ban, and Still Not Enforceable
France just banned social media for anyone under 15, the first such law in the EU. India's own privacy law already sets a stricter bar, verifiable parental consent for any child under 18, but the rule that would enforce it does not bind a single platform until 2027.
July 23, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
How Fixing Child Malnutrition Is Fueling India's Diabetes Epidemic
The Indian states that cut child stunting fastest over the last five years are now posting the steepest rises in adult obesity and diabetes. A well-documented biological mechanism explains why the two trends are connected, not coincidental.
July 24, 2026
Health
India Approved a Dengue Vaccine Without the Safety Screen the Last One Needed
India's drug regulator cleared Takeda's Qdenga for anyone aged 4 to 60, with no test for whether they had dengue before. Qdenga's own trial data show that history is exactly what its protection depends on.
July 21, 2026
Health
Only 12 Percent of India's Brain Clot Patients Carry a Genetic Cause
A new ICMR hospital registry finds anaemia and alcohol use, not inherited clotting disorders, are the leading risk factors behind India's brain clots. Genetic causes showed up in only one in eight patients tested.
July 20, 2026