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Geopolitics
The US Tariff on India Is Now 10 Percent, and the Trade Talks Are Still Stuck
Sitharaman says India-US trade talks have hit a plateau. The tariff India faces is now 10 percent, and the two countries' own trade statistics disagree about what it has done.
October 6, 2026
Business
India's Gold Loan Boom Is a Bet on the Price of Gold
NBFC gold loans were up 70 percent in the year to May 2026, and NBFC retail credit is still accelerating. Gold was down about 7 percent in 2026 by mid-year, then rose 13 percent in August and pulled back in September. The lending boom is a bet on a metal that keeps swinging.
October 6, 2026
Markets
Aramco's Asia Price Cut Looks Like a Freight Rebate, Not a Price War
Saudi Aramco surprised the market by cutting Asia's November price to the widest discount since June 2020. Supertanker hire has risen 15-fold in a year, and Asian refiners say the cut is meant to cover it.
October 5, 2026
Health
Two Large Listed Hospital Chains Raised Bills Slower Than Parliament's Inflation Figure
A parliamentary panel wants foreign hospital capital curbed and prices capped, citing medical inflation of 10 to 13 percent. Two large listed chains report bill growth of 5 and 8 percent, and Apollo credits case mix.
October 5, 2026
Health
Serum Institute's HPV Vaccine Cleared WHO While India Vaccinates With Gardasil
WHO prequalified Cervavac on 25 September 2026, the sixth HPV vaccine to clear the gate. India's own free programme, launched in February, runs on Merck's Gardasil.
October 5, 2026
Business
Gulf Crude Is Flowing Again, but the Fuel India Needs Is Not
Weekly crude flows through Hormuz have nearly doubled since mid-September, but about 3 million barrels a day of refined products are still missing. That gap, not crude, is setting the price India pays.
October 4, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Gold Loan Boom Is a Bet on the Price of Gold
NBFC gold loans were up 70 percent in the year to May 2026, and NBFC retail credit is still accelerating. Gold was down about 7 percent in 2026 by mid-year, then rose 13 percent in August and pulled back in September. The lending boom is a bet on a metal that keeps swinging.
October 6, 2026
Business
Gulf Crude Is Flowing Again, but the Fuel India Needs Is Not
Weekly crude flows through Hormuz have nearly doubled since mid-September, but about 3 million barrels a day of refined products are still missing. That gap, not crude, is setting the price India pays.
October 4, 2026
Business
Mumbai Airport Is Cutting a Third of Its International Flights to Fit Domestic Ones
Mumbai wants 265 of its 770 weekly international departure slots gone from October 25 to make room for domestic flyers. The cut is the bill for a schedule that slipped, and airlines are the ones paying it.
October 4, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India Lost Its Cheapest Phones to the AI Memory Boom, and Almost Nothing Else
India's smartphone market fell 11.1% in Q2 2026. Strip out phones under US$100 and the rest of the market did not shrink at all. AI data centres are repricing one band of buyers, not everyone.
October 6, 2026
Technology
Google's Hardened Framework Cuts XSS Bugs by 250 to 1
Google's AI bug hunter confirmed over 500 exploitable security flaws across its web apps, and only 2 on the hardened framework built to stop exactly that bug. The gap says more about templates than about talent.
September 27, 2026
Technology
A Litigation Funder Bankrolled the Lawsuit That Just Cost Apple $5.7 Billion
A federal jury ordered Apple to pay $5.72 billion over two haptic patents, then discovery showed the winning plaintiff's case was bankrolled by a subsidiary of litigation funder Burford Capital.
September 27, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Two Large Listed Hospital Chains Raised Bills Slower Than Parliament's Inflation Figure
A parliamentary panel wants foreign hospital capital curbed and prices capped, citing medical inflation of 10 to 13 percent. Two large listed chains report bill growth of 5 and 8 percent, and Apollo credits case mix.
October 5, 2026
Health
Serum Institute's HPV Vaccine Cleared WHO While India Vaccinates With Gardasil
WHO prequalified Cervavac on 25 September 2026, the sixth HPV vaccine to clear the gate. India's own free programme, launched in February, runs on Merck's Gardasil.
October 5, 2026
Health
India Has Regained Its Pre-Covid Lifespan, but WHO Cannot Say by How Much
WHO's new estimates say India's life expectancy is back above its 2019 level, ahead of the world. The 95 percent range around the 2023 figure runs 7.1 years, three times as wide as the 2019 range.
October 2, 2026