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Business

Why Buying IDBI Bank Requires Breaking RBI's Ownership Cap

Fairfax's bid for IDBI Bank is priced at $5.5 billion, but the number that decides it is 26: the share of voting rights no bank shareholder may hold without a special RBI exemption.

July 15, 2026

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Business

How Naya Safar Cuts Truck Prices But Not Truck Debt

Naya Safar waives the tax and discounts the price on a new truck or bus. The loan needed to cover the rest is still the owner's own problem to finance.

July 15, 2026

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Business

China's Slowing Factories Are Exporting Deflation to India

China's Q2 growth miss looks like a China story. The mechanism behind it is an India story: Chinese factories still discounting finished goods even as factory-gate prices turn positive, and the spillover landing as underpriced steel in Indian ports.

July 15, 2026

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Health

Chandipura Virus Kills Children Faster Than India Can Test For It

Gujarat has confirmed just 7 of 27 tested Chandipura cases, with 8 results still pending days later. The same lab bottleneck undercounted the 2024 outbreak, and there is still no vaccine to fall back on.

July 15, 2026

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Technology

India's Largest Nuclear Plant Leaked Files From a Vendor, Not the Reactor

A hacking group's dark-web dump tied to India's largest nuclear plant traces back to a vendor's data centre, not NPCIL's own network, the same wall a 2019 breach stopped at.

July 15, 2026

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Technology

India's Bank Regulator Is Patching Customers, Not the Network

A government-backed threat report got six of its seven cyberattack predictions right this year. RBI's new fraud rules respond by compensating victims faster, not by touching the vendor dependency its own survey calls the second-biggest risk.

July 14, 2026

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