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Geopolitics
Turkey's Fighter Jet Flew Eight Years Before Its Real Engine Will
AMCA's stalled engine talks read like proof India is behind on fighter jets. The US's F-47 and Turkey's KAAN show the wait for a real engine is the industry norm, not an Indian problem.
July 31, 2026
Markets
NSE's Settlement Clears Its IPO Path for Less Than Half a Quarter's Profit
SEBI has agreed in principle to a Rs 1,491.21 crore settlement that closes NSE's decade-old co-location and dark-fibre cases, the last overhang before its IPO. The bill comes to less than half of what NSE earned in a single quarter this year.
July 31, 2026
Markets
India Is Winning the Global AI Selloff by Not Having Any AI
Foreign investors reversed four months of selling Indian equities in July 2026, the same stretch in which South Korea's AI-chip rally lost $2.18 trillion in value. The money did not choose India. It fled Korea, and analysts are saying so on the record.
July 31, 2026
Geopolitics
Chip Export Bans Missed the Channel China Used for Military AI
Reuters found Chinese military researchers training defense AI on distilled outputs from OpenAI's and Anthropic's models. Washington's chip embargo was built to stop a hardware transfer; this one needed no hardware at all.
July 31, 2026
Business
India Approves Rs 84,084 Crore for Offshore Oil It Still Cannot Convert to Production
The new Samudra Manthan scheme extends an oil-exploration program that awarded 144 blocks and produced from just one. The bottleneck it funds may not be the one keeping India dependent on imports.
July 31, 2026
Markets
Zerodha's Founder Is Warning About the Leverage His Own Platform Sells
Nithin Kamath is warning that margin funding could deepen India's next selloff, using fees his own brokerage earns from selling that same leverage. His book is the smallest part of the story.
July 30, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India Approves Rs 84,084 Crore for Offshore Oil It Still Cannot Convert to Production
The new Samudra Manthan scheme extends an oil-exploration program that awarded 144 blocks and produced from just one. The bottleneck it funds may not be the one keeping India dependent on imports.
July 31, 2026
Business
Why Private Banks Fine Account Holders Twice as Hard as Public Banks
Private lenders collected Rs 4,949 crore in FY26 minimum-balance penalties, more than double what public sector banks collected. The rule that permits that gap sets no ceiling on it at all.
July 29, 2026
Business
Haryana Pays Every Eligible Woman in a Family, Delhi Pays Only the Eldest
Delhi's new Lakshmi Yojana borrows Madhya Pradesh's exact income cutoff for its cash transfer to women, then adds two eligibility rules that neither Madhya Pradesh nor Haryana's comparable scheme carries.
July 29, 2026
Technology & Science
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
Technology
India's Solar Grid Still Runs on the Chinese Inverters Washington Just Banned
The FCC just banned new Chinese-made grid inverters over remote-shutdown risk. India's solar buildout already runs on them, and nothing requires that to change.
July 30, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
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
Health
India's Smaller Districts Are Out-Vaccinating Its Big Cities on HPV Shots
Karnal, a mid-sized Haryana district, has vaccinated five times the share of its HPV target that Faridabad and Ludhiana have managed. The pattern holds across two states, and it complicates the story India tells about the rollout.
July 28, 2026