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Geopolitics
The Group India Blames for the Red Fort Blast Isn't on the UN's List
India's investigators formally blamed an Al-Qaida affiliate for the Red Fort blast. The UN's own most recent terrorism report, filed three months earlier, pointed to a different group entirely, and has never separately listed the one India blames.
August 13, 2026
Business
India's Factory Margins Are Being Squeezed by Raw Materials, Not Wages
RBI's FY2025-26 corporate data show manufacturing profit growth cooling because raw material costs jumped 18 percent, not because of wages. IT, which held wage growth to the low single digits, was the only sector to grow its margin at all.
August 13, 2026
Business
India's Coal Mine Pipeline Nearly Doubled as Non-Fossil Capacity Passed Half
India proposed nearly twice as much new coal mine capacity in 2025 as in 2024, the same window in which non-fossil sources became the majority of its installed power capacity. The mine pipeline is the harder forecast to ignore.
August 13, 2026
Science
AI Can Design a Genome That Looks Like Nothing in Any Screening Database
Stanford researchers just used AI to write working virus genomes from scratch. The screening software built to catch dangerous DNA orders was designed to match known pathogens, not judge sequences no one has ever seen.
August 13, 2026
Business
Bank of America Buys Half of Jio Credit Without Buying Control
Bank of America is paying up to $1.9 billion for a stake in Reliance's fast-growing lender that tops out at 49.9 percent, just short of a majority. The number reveals what foreign capital wants from India's shadow-banking boom: exposure, not control.
August 13, 2026
Science
Delhi's 'Excess' Monsoon Label Hides Wild Swings From One District to the Next
IMD's seasonal number says Delhi's monsoon is 24 percent above normal. Its own district data, for the same day, show one part of the city drowning in surplus rain and another running dry.
August 12, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Factory Margins Are Being Squeezed by Raw Materials, Not Wages
RBI's FY2025-26 corporate data show manufacturing profit growth cooling because raw material costs jumped 18 percent, not because of wages. IT, which held wage growth to the low single digits, was the only sector to grow its margin at all.
August 13, 2026
Business
India's Coal Mine Pipeline Nearly Doubled as Non-Fossil Capacity Passed Half
India proposed nearly twice as much new coal mine capacity in 2025 as in 2024, the same window in which non-fossil sources became the majority of its installed power capacity. The mine pipeline is the harder forecast to ignore.
August 13, 2026
Business
Bank of America Buys Half of Jio Credit Without Buying Control
Bank of America is paying up to $1.9 billion for a stake in Reliance's fast-growing lender that tops out at 49.9 percent, just short of a majority. The number reveals what foreign capital wants from India's shadow-banking boom: exposure, not control.
August 13, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Nvidia Is Now Financing the Data Centers That Buy Its Chips
Nvidia has lined up Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for the data centers that buy its chips. Wall Street has seen this circularity before, in Cisco and Lucent's dot-com bust.
August 12, 2026
Technology
The Rule That Killed Free Basics Just Let a Paid Fast Lane Through
India's net neutrality rule was built to ban paid fast lanes after the Free Basics fight. A 5G plan just tested it, and the regulator's first read found no violation.
July 31, 2026
Technology
Pronto Pays Its Workers Double to Wear Cameras on the Job
Pronto pays its home-service workers double to let a camera record the job for AI training data. The wage premium, not a consent process, is what actually buys the worker's participation.
July 30, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Why Kerala's Dengue Patients Are Twelve Times More Likely to Die Than Tamil Nadu's
Tamil Nadu carries India's biggest dengue caseload and one of its lowest death tolls; Kerala runs the opposite trade, with far fewer cases but far more deaths. The gap is Kerala's population, not its outbreak.
August 1, 2026
Health
India Meets Just 0.2 Percent of Its Own Heart Transplant Need
A new Lancet analysis finds India covers just 0.2 percent of its own heart transplant need and 7.2 percent of kidney need. The shortfall traces to where transplant capacity sits, not to how many people need one.
July 30, 2026
Health
India's Dementia Risk Is Led by a Lack of Schooling, Not Diabetes
A Bengaluru cohort study points to diabetes and hearing loss as India's dementia risk profile. The country's own nationally representative study names a different leading factor by a wide margin, and diabetes does not even reach significance.
July 30, 2026