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India's $200 Billion Data Centre Pledge Is Nearly 32 Times What the Build-Out Needs
Piyush Goyal cited $200 billion in hyperscaler pledges to justify exempting high-tech manufacturers from certification checks. India's own coal, semiconductor and incentive schemes show pledges this size rarely convert into delivered investment.
August 26, 2026
Business
Why India's ATMs Keep Disappearing as Currency Hits a Record High
RBI data show India's ATM count has fallen for three straight years, almost entirely because off-site machines are closing, even as currency in circulation hits a record high. The squeeze is landing hardest on Tier-2 and Tier-3 India.
August 26, 2026
Business
India's Credit Flow More Than Doubled, and Almost All of It Came From Banks
RBI data show financing to India's commercial sector more than doubling in April-July 2026-27. Corporate bonds, QIP placements and IPO proceeds shrank in the same year bank credit surged nine-fold.
August 26, 2026
Business
Only 8 in 100 Graduates Get a Matching Job
NITI Aayog says India has skilled 7.67 crore workers since 2014-15. Its own numbers show barely 8 in 100 land a job that actually matches their degree.
August 26, 2026
Health
PM2.5 Carries the Largest Cancer Risk of Any Studied Air Pollutant
A new global study puts PM2.5 ahead of nitrogen dioxide and ozone as the pollutant most linked to cancer. India's air runs more than ten times over the WHO's guideline for it, which is exactly where the larger number lands.
August 26, 2026
Business
India Undid the Gold Duty Cut That Killed Smuggling
In May 2026, New Delhi raised its gold and silver duty back to 15%, undoing the July 2024 cut that had driven unofficial imports to near zero. By July, the government was already weighing whether to cut it again.
August 26, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's $200 Billion Data Centre Pledge Is Nearly 32 Times What the Build-Out Needs
Piyush Goyal cited $200 billion in hyperscaler pledges to justify exempting high-tech manufacturers from certification checks. India's own coal, semiconductor and incentive schemes show pledges this size rarely convert into delivered investment.
August 26, 2026
Business
Why India's ATMs Keep Disappearing as Currency Hits a Record High
RBI data show India's ATM count has fallen for three straight years, almost entirely because off-site machines are closing, even as currency in circulation hits a record high. The squeeze is landing hardest on Tier-2 and Tier-3 India.
August 26, 2026
Business
India's Credit Flow More Than Doubled, and Almost All of It Came From Banks
RBI data show financing to India's commercial sector more than doubling in April-July 2026-27. Corporate bonds, QIP placements and IPO proceeds shrank in the same year bank credit surged nine-fold.
August 26, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India's SIM Cap Can't Reach Rings That Split Connections Across Many Buyers
A new circular blocks anyone who already holds nine connections from getting a tenth. A ring that spreads its SIMs across many separate buyers, each under the limit, never trips it.
August 21, 2026
Technology
India Regulates What Meta Posts, Not How Meta Is Built
A 29-state trial against Meta rests on product-liability law, not speech law, the same route once used against tobacco companies. India's IT Rules and DPDP Act can order a takedown or fine a data violation, but neither can reach the algorithm itself.
August 19, 2026
Technology
A Law Built for Case-by-Case Review Now Blocks Accounts by the Thousand
Section 69A requires a committee to individually judge each blocking order 'justifiable,' with reasons recorded in writing. In practice, one 2025 order blocked 2,355 accounts inside an hour, and the government has not published an annual count since 2022.
August 18, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
PM2.5 Carries the Largest Cancer Risk of Any Studied Air Pollutant
A new global study puts PM2.5 ahead of nitrogen dioxide and ozone as the pollutant most linked to cancer. India's air runs more than ten times over the WHO's guideline for it, which is exactly where the larger number lands.
August 26, 2026
Health
South Asians Are Almost Absent From the Databases That Calibrate Global Medicine
South Asians are close to a quarter of humanity, but the genomic databases that build disease-risk scores and drug-dosing guidance include almost none of them. The gap already shows up in a heart drug that fails more often and a risk score that reads worse.
August 21, 2026
Health
India Has No National Flu Vaccine Plan, So H1N1 Comes Back Every Year
Delhi's H1N1 cases are up sixfold this year, and an unreported death in Indore has triggered a state probe. Both trace back to a program that has never existed: India offers no subsidized flu vaccine to anyone.
August 21, 2026