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Business
Most of India's Battery Recyclers Just Lost Their Export Market
The ban keeps lithium, nickel and cobalt in India. It also leaves the shredders who make most of the country's black mass with only domestic refiners to sell to.
November 11, 2026
Geopolitics
Why India Wants Russia's Black Sea Ports Reopened as Much as Ukraine's
India's Black Sea plan is read as help for Ukrainian grain. Russia supplies half of India's sunflower oil, and in September its shipments fell to a third of normal.
November 11, 2026
Business
Strip Out the Farm Season and India's Rural Unemployment Barely Moved in a Year
India's unemployment rate fell to 5.1% in July to September 2026, led by the countryside. The same rural dip happened a year earlier, and against that quarter rural joblessness moved from 4.4% to 4.3%.
November 11, 2026
Health
The Cancers Diabetes Raises Most Are the Ones India Does Not Screen
India's screening programme checks the same adults for diabetes and for three cancers. Of the six cancers with robust links to diabetes, it looks for one.
November 11, 2026
Business
Why a Weaker Rupee Did Not Save India's Soybean Meal Exports
A rupee 8 percent weaker should have made Indian soybean meal cheaper abroad. Instead exports fell 72 percent, and rapeseed meal quietly became the product India actually sells.
November 10, 2026
Business
India's Deficit With China Is the Price of Its Own Electronics Boom
China's trade surplus passed $1 trillion for 2026, but its imports are now growing faster than its exports. India's rising deficit with China looks less like dumping and more like the input bill for its own electronics boom.
November 10, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Two Foreign Banks Put More Into Indian Lenders Than Foreign Funds Sold in a Year
Blackstone's Rs 5,000 crore bet on IIFL Finance is new money for the lender, not an exit for a seller. MUFG and Emirates NBD alone put more fresh equity into Indian lenders in 2026 than foreign funds pulled out of financial stocks in all of 2025-26.
November 11, 2026
Business
Most of India's Battery Recyclers Just Lost Their Export Market
The ban keeps lithium, nickel and cobalt in India. It also leaves the shredders who make most of the country's black mass with only domestic refiners to sell to.
November 11, 2026
Business
Strip Out the Farm Season and India's Rural Unemployment Barely Moved in a Year
India's unemployment rate fell to 5.1% in July to September 2026, led by the countryside. The same rural dip happened a year earlier, and against that quarter rural joblessness moved from 4.4% to 4.3%.
November 11, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
US Voters Turned on Data Centres Over Who Pays for the Power
Three in four voters in a US exit poll oppose data centres in their communities. The grid's own market monitor says other customers have paid $29.4 billion for them, and India is about to build the same load.
November 8, 2026
Technology
India Runs 500 Million Bank Data Consents and Now Calls Consent Impractical for AI
India's banking data network asks for a consent every time data moves. A new government handbook for AI training says that step is impractical at scale and moves the safeguard elsewhere.
November 4, 2026
Technology
Apple's Record India Quarter Came With Fewer iPhones Sold
Apple's India revenue hit a record in the September 2026 quarter even as iPhone shipments fell, because the average price crossed $1,000. The larger story is that India now exports about 41 percent of the phones it makes.
November 3, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
The Cancers Diabetes Raises Most Are the Ones India Does Not Screen
India's screening programme checks the same adults for diabetes and for three cancers. Of the six cancers with robust links to diabetes, it looks for one.
November 11, 2026
Health
Delhi Added 13 Air Monitors and Its Pollution Average Fell
Thirteen new monitors read PM2.5 about 35 percent lower than their older neighbours, and the city average dropped with them. The difference is 11 points. What it tests is how Delhi decides what its air is.
November 7, 2026
Health
India Could Prevent 400,000 Deaths a Year by Changing the Salt, Not the Eater
A new Nature Health model puts the India toll avoided by potassium-enriched salt near 400,000 deaths a year. Salt-cutting campaigns ask people to change. This changes the product instead.
November 7, 2026