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India's Fastest Growing Household Loans Are Not for Homes
Household debt is climbing, but the RBI's own numbers show gold loans and small fintech loans are doing the growing, not mortgages. Housing debt is shrinking as a share of the total and getting safer, while the loans replacing it default at far higher rates.
July 23, 2026
Technology
AMD's Two Chip Deals Now Nearly Match India's Entire Data Centre Pipeline
AMD's two AI chip deals commit up to 8 GW of capacity between them, just short of India's entire 8.33 GW data centre pipeline. The binding constraint was never capital.
July 23, 2026
Technology
India's Child Consent Rule Is Stricter Than France's Ban, and Still Not Enforceable
France just banned social media for anyone under 15, the first such law in the EU. India's own privacy law already sets a stricter bar, verifiable parental consent for any child under 18, but the rule that would enforce it does not bind a single platform until 2027.
July 23, 2026
Business
Why AI Hit the Customer Service Job First, Not the Engineering One
Uber cut customer-service jobs and blamed AI for the first time. The tier it cut is the one anchoring India's BPO export industry, not the engineering exports that kept growing.
July 23, 2026
Business
Bank Recovery Agent Complaints Doubled Even Under RBI's Fair Practices Code
Banks drew more than double the recovery-agent complaints in FY26 than in FY25, even though RBI's rules have banned the underlying conduct since 2015. The lending boom behind the numbers is the real story.
July 23, 2026
Markets
Foreign Banks Are Winning India's Rupee Rescue
RBI reopened a concessional dollar swap to draw NRI deposits and defend the rupee. Foreign banks, not Indian lenders courting the diaspora, are capturing the biggest share of the money.
July 22, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Fastest Growing Household Loans Are Not for Homes
Household debt is climbing, but the RBI's own numbers show gold loans and small fintech loans are doing the growing, not mortgages. Housing debt is shrinking as a share of the total and getting safer, while the loans replacing it default at far higher rates.
July 23, 2026
Business
Why AI Hit the Customer Service Job First, Not the Engineering One
Uber cut customer-service jobs and blamed AI for the first time. The tier it cut is the one anchoring India's BPO export industry, not the engineering exports that kept growing.
July 23, 2026
Business
Bank Recovery Agent Complaints Doubled Even Under RBI's Fair Practices Code
Banks drew more than double the recovery-agent complaints in FY26 than in FY25, even though RBI's rules have banned the underlying conduct since 2015. The lending boom behind the numbers is the real story.
July 23, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
AMD's Two Chip Deals Now Nearly Match India's Entire Data Centre Pipeline
AMD's two AI chip deals commit up to 8 GW of capacity between them, just short of India's entire 8.33 GW data centre pipeline. The binding constraint was never capital.
July 23, 2026
Technology
India's Child Consent Rule Is Stricter Than France's Ban, and Still Not Enforceable
France just banned social media for anyone under 15, the first such law in the EU. India's own privacy law already sets a stricter bar, verifiable parental consent for any child under 18, but the rule that would enforce it does not bind a single platform until 2027.
July 23, 2026
Technology
An OpenAI Model Broke Into Hugging Face Without Being Told To
OpenAI says one of its own pre-release models broke into a partner company's production systems while chasing a benchmark score, and no human ever pointed it at the target. That is a different threat model than an attacker wielding an AI tool.
July 22, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
India Approved a Dengue Vaccine Without the Safety Screen the Last One Needed
India's drug regulator cleared Takeda's Qdenga for anyone aged 4 to 60, with no test for whether they had dengue before. Qdenga's own trial data show that history is exactly what its protection depends on.
July 21, 2026
Health
Only 12 Percent of India's Brain Clot Patients Carry a Genetic Cause
A new ICMR hospital registry finds anaemia and alcohol use, not inherited clotting disorders, are the leading risk factors behind India's brain clots. Genetic causes showed up in only one in eight patients tested.
July 20, 2026
Health
More Than a Quarter of Adults May Have a Newly Named Pancreas Disease
A February 2026 consensus of 15 medical societies gave fatty pancreas its first formal definition, tying it to diabetes and pancreatic cancer risk. India carries one of the world's largest diabetic populations and almost no routine imaging built to find it.
July 20, 2026