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Business
India Has Never Cut a Dairy Tariff in Any Trade Deal
The EU-India trade deal moving toward signature cuts India's car tariff from 110 percent to 10 and its wine tariff from 150 to 20. Dairy gets nothing, exactly as it got nothing from Australia and the UK before it.
September 12, 2026
Geopolitics
BRICS Has Added 16 Countries Since Pakistan Applied
Pakistan applied to join BRICS in 2023. The bloc has since added 16 other countries as members or partners, several with smaller economies than Pakistan's, and India is now hosting the summit where Pakistan remains absent.
September 12, 2026
Science
An Atlantic Current Collapse Would Cut India's Monsoon Nearly a Fifth
Coverage of a collapsing Atlantic current keeps framing the food-security risk around Europe, the US and a list that includes India. Peer-reviewed modeling puts a specific number on India's exposure, and this year's monsoon already opened on the back foot.
September 12, 2026
Markets
A Houthi Attack on Saudi Arabia Just Raised the Odds of a Fed Rate Hike
Traders now put 70 percent odds on a Fed rate hike after an oil shock, not a cut. India's rate sensitive bank and realty trade is unwinding, and the RBI already had little room to spare.
September 11, 2026
Business
Wipro Added Nearly 10,000 Workers in the Year AI Freed 20,000
Wipro's chief technology officer says AI has freed capacity worth 20,000 workers, all of them redeployed rather than cut. The company's own quarterly filings show headcount grew by nearly 10,000 over the same year, and its operating margin fell.
September 11, 2026
Geopolitics
DHS's Own Estimate Says Ending the H-1B Grace Period Would Hurt Just 3,795 People
DHS's own cost-benefit analysis for scrapping the H-1B grace period counts the harm at 3,795 people. Look at who actually needs that window and the number stops making sense.
September 11, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India Has Never Cut a Dairy Tariff in Any Trade Deal
The EU-India trade deal moving toward signature cuts India's car tariff from 110 percent to 10 and its wine tariff from 150 to 20. Dairy gets nothing, exactly as it got nothing from Australia and the UK before it.
September 12, 2026
Business
Wipro Added Nearly 10,000 Workers in the Year AI Freed 20,000
Wipro's chief technology officer says AI has freed capacity worth 20,000 workers, all of them redeployed rather than cut. The company's own quarterly filings show headcount grew by nearly 10,000 over the same year, and its operating margin fell.
September 11, 2026
Business
India Needs Two Bad Nutrients to Trigger a Warning Label, Not One
FSSAI's draft warning label needs a product to breach two nutrient thresholds at once before it carries a warning. Chile, Mexico and the WHO's own model need just one.
September 11, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Anthropic's Weapons Safeguards Only Work in Hindsight
Anthropic's own threat report says it stopped a Yemen missile cell and an Iran-nexus operation tracking US warships. Both disclosures arrived only after the misuse had already run its course.
September 11, 2026
Technology
ChatGPT's Cricket Sponsorship Works Out to Under a Rupee a Viewer
OpenAI is paying Rs 1.2 crore a match to sponsor BCCI's home cricket season. Weighed against India's biggest recent cricket audiences, that works out to a few paise a viewer, far below what a digital ad costs to reach the same person.
September 9, 2026
Technology
The Algorithm Opt Out Reaches the People Who Want It Least
Australia's new law lets adults opt out of algorithmic feeds. The EU already offers that choice, and the users who spend the most time on social media are the ones least likely to use it.
September 8, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Why India's Smoke-Free Law Didn't Clear the Workplace
COTPA's public-place smoking ban has averaged roughly 72 percent compliance nationally, and secondhand-smoke exposure at home fell sharply between India's last two tobacco surveys. In the workplace, the law's own target, exposure barely moved.
September 10, 2026
Health
The Anemia Rate Threatening India's Next Working Generation
A new study finds infants of anemic mothers have measurably smaller brains, with the gap still visible years later. India's anemia rate, nearly double the global average, keeps climbing rather than falling.
September 9, 2026
Health
Why India's Smoking Ban Cannot Reach Nine in Ten Workers
A new Lancet study finds India's secondhand smoke deaths up nearly 50 percent since 1990. The law meant to stop it can be enforced on formal workplaces alone, and nine in ten Indian workers do not have one.
September 9, 2026