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PB Fintech's Stock Crash Shows Its Premium Was Never About Technology
A regulatory paper on insurance commissions wiped a fifth off PB Fintech's stock in a single session, exposing how much of its business was commission, not technology.
September 24, 2026
Geopolitics
The F-35's Weak Link Is a Delivery Address, Not a Password
F-35 components meant for a US depot were routed instead through a Hong Kong intermediary, and the Pentagon is now retrieving them one shipment at a time. Nobody had to breach anything; a shipping label did the work.
September 24, 2026
Business
SEBI's Insider Trading Rules Face a Second Bank Leak This Year
A misdirected email put more than 100 of Morgan Stanley's confidential Asia deals in front of its own clients. Eight months earlier, a single leaked deal was enough to earn Bank of America a SEBI notice.
September 24, 2026
Health
The Cancer Drug Price Cap That Covers Only 42 Medicines
The Supreme Court just called a tenfold cancer-drug markup 'dacoity, broad daylight dacoity.' India built a price cap for exactly this problem in 2019, and it still only reaches 42 named drugs.
September 23, 2026
Business
Indian Banks Are Cleaning Up Their Data to Avoid RBI Scrutiny
RBI's bank data-quality score just posted its sharpest jump in nine quarters. The gain came from the sub-score that measures compliance with the rulebook, not the one that tests whether a bank's own numbers actually hold together.
September 23, 2026
Markets
Why India's Biggest Stock Exchange Took a Decade to List Itself
NSE's Rs 22,562 crore IPO is India's second-largest ever. What got the exchange here, and where its shares are about to trade, both tell a stranger story than the size of the raise.
September 23, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
PB Fintech's Stock Crash Shows Its Premium Was Never About Technology
A regulatory paper on insurance commissions wiped a fifth off PB Fintech's stock in a single session, exposing how much of its business was commission, not technology.
September 24, 2026
Business
SEBI's Insider Trading Rules Face a Second Bank Leak This Year
A misdirected email put more than 100 of Morgan Stanley's confidential Asia deals in front of its own clients. Eight months earlier, a single leaked deal was enough to earn Bank of America a SEBI notice.
September 24, 2026
Business
Indian Banks Are Cleaning Up Their Data to Avoid RBI Scrutiny
RBI's bank data-quality score just posted its sharpest jump in nine quarters. The gain came from the sub-score that measures compliance with the rulebook, not the one that tests whether a bank's own numbers actually hold together.
September 23, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
RatHat Steals Bank PINs Without Ever Touching the OTP
A new Android banking trojan reads PINs straight off the screen using the accessibility tool built for blind users. India's OTP defense never even sees it.
September 22, 2026
Technology
India's Semiconductor Success Turned It Into a Sabotage Target
ASML confirmed it has started operating in India the same week its minister warned the chip industry to brace for cyberattacks. The mission's success, not despite it, is what created the target.
September 21, 2026
Technology
The Lawsuit That Says AI Labs Colluded by Trying to Be Safe
Four subscribers say Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google's joint safety pledge was an illegal slowdown pact. The case lands in a regulatory vacuum antitrust law never filled.
September 20, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
India Approved Dementia Drugs Most Hospitals Cannot Monitor
India's regulator has cleared two Alzheimer's drugs that can slow the disease. Most dementia patients are in the wrong stage to get them, and most hospitals lack the scans to give them safely.
September 24, 2026
Health
The Cancer Drug Price Cap That Covers Only 42 Medicines
The Supreme Court just called a tenfold cancer-drug markup 'dacoity, broad daylight dacoity.' India built a price cap for exactly this problem in 2019, and it still only reaches 42 named drugs.
September 23, 2026
Health
Fiji Declared an HIV Emergency Months After India's Largest Drug Gift
India just sent Fiji its largest-ever medicine gift for HIV. Ten months later Fiji declared a national emergency anyway, because the epidemic runs on needles, not on drug shortages.
September 18, 2026