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Markets
Foreign Investors Now Own the Smallest Share of India's Top Stocks in Twenty Years
Foreign ownership of India's biggest listed companies has slid below its 2008 crisis low, and domestic investors have overtaken foreign ones market-wide for the first time. A single strong month of domestic buying does not explain that.
July 7, 2026
Business
Why the Missing Link's Rockfall Mesh Was Ten Times Too Short
MSRDC built the Missing Link specifically to remove the Mumbai-Pune Expressway's most landslide-exposed stretch. Nine weeks after it opened, a landslide hit it anyway, and the rockfall mesh meant to stop it covered a tenth of the slope above it.
July 7, 2026
Business
The Real Divide in Indian Banking Isn't Public Versus Private
Kotak Mahindra Bank's growth gap between loans and deposits is now nearly as wide as Punjab National Bank's, a state-run lender. Ownership isn't what is splitting Indian banks apart this quarter.
July 7, 2026
Technology
Samsung's Chip Profit Windfall Is Coming Out of Its Own Phone Business
Samsung just guided a record, 19-fold jump in quarterly profit on the AI-driven memory shortage. The same shortage is projected to cut its own phone division's profit by roughly 61 percent, and it is already squeezing which phones Indian buyers can afford.
July 7, 2026
Business
India Raised the Rural Job Guarantee and Cut the Centre's Share of the Bill
VB-G RAM G promises more days of guaranteed work and a higher minimum wage than MGNREGA ever did. To fund it, the law hands states a share of a bill Delhi used to cover alone.
July 6, 2026
Geopolitics
The Navy Wants Three Times as Many Agniveers as Agnipath Allows
India's Navy is reportedly asking to keep about 75% of its first Agniveer batch, and the Army and Air Force near 50%. Agnipath's founding pitch was built on keeping a quarter.
July 6, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Why the Missing Link's Rockfall Mesh Was Ten Times Too Short
MSRDC built the Missing Link specifically to remove the Mumbai-Pune Expressway's most landslide-exposed stretch. Nine weeks after it opened, a landslide hit it anyway, and the rockfall mesh meant to stop it covered a tenth of the slope above it.
July 7, 2026
Business
The Real Divide in Indian Banking Isn't Public Versus Private
Kotak Mahindra Bank's growth gap between loans and deposits is now nearly as wide as Punjab National Bank's, a state-run lender. Ownership isn't what is splitting Indian banks apart this quarter.
July 7, 2026
Business
India Raised the Rural Job Guarantee and Cut the Centre's Share of the Bill
VB-G RAM G promises more days of guaranteed work and a higher minimum wage than MGNREGA ever did. To fund it, the law hands states a share of a bill Delhi used to cover alone.
July 6, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Samsung's Chip Profit Windfall Is Coming Out of Its Own Phone Business
Samsung just guided a record, 19-fold jump in quarterly profit on the AI-driven memory shortage. The same shortage is projected to cut its own phone division's profit by roughly 61 percent, and it is already squeezing which phones Indian buyers can afford.
July 7, 2026
Technology
Anyone Within Fifteen Metres Can Turn Off a Delhi E-Rickshaw
A Bluetooth app let strangers stall e-rickshaws mid-shift for a laugh, and the government pulled it within a day. The unregistered fleet and unvetted batteries behind it are untouched.
July 4, 2026
Technology
India's AI Money Is Going Into GCCs, Not Frontier Labs
HCLTech, TCS, Infosys and Reliance are booking billions in AI dealflow this year, and India's GCCs already run a $98.4 billion AI-delivery business. None of that capital is building India a frontier model of its own.
July 3, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
India's C-Section Rate Is Rising Fastest Where Hospitals Get Paid Per Procedure
India's caesarean rate has nearly doubled the WHO's ceiling. The sharpest divide isn't between sick and healthy mothers, it's between hospitals paid per procedure and hospitals that aren't.
July 3, 2026
Health
Government Schemes Cover 42 Percent of India's Insured, Pay 8 Percent of the Premium
For the first time on record, more of rural India carries health insurance than urban India. Almost all of that growth is riding in on government schemes that pay insurers a fraction of what commercial cover does.
July 3, 2026
Health
The Extra Years Indian Women Live Are Almost All Spent Disabled
Indian women outlive men by 2.8 years, but almost all of that extra time is spent living with a disability, not extra healthy life. The household spends less treating their illnesses and asks more of them in return.
July 3, 2026