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Geopolitics
ISRO Staff Are Pushing Back on the Privatisation They Must Execute
Nine ISRO employee unions are demanding written clarity on the privatisation roadmap they are expected to help execute. The budget of the agency meant to run it is shrinking too.
September 6, 2026
Geopolitics
Delhi's Electoral Roll Lost 1.1 Million Names Before Anyone Was Watching
Delhi's rolls shed nearly 1.1 million names in the eighteen months before the SIR review published its first list. A second, much larger cut followed, and only one of the two came with a chance to object.
September 6, 2026
Geopolitics
India Is Ordering More S-400s Before Russia Finishes the Last Batch
Operation Sindoor proved the S-400 in combat, so India wants five more. Russia's own wartime production means the batteries just proven in battle may take as long to arrive as the ones still on order.
September 5, 2026
Business
How India's Bid to Cool Sugar Prices Raised Them Abroad
India opened duty free sugar imports to calm retail prices at home. The FAO's own numbers show that announcement was one of the reasons the world price, the one India will actually pay, jumped instead.
September 5, 2026
Markets
India Brought Its Gold Home While Europe Just Moves It Between Vaults
The Dutch central bank just moved 86 tonnes of gold from New York and Ottawa to London, citing 'geopolitical unrest.' The Reserve Bank of India answered the same question years ago, and did it by bringing the metal home.
September 5, 2026
Geopolitics
Turning Off Ad Trackers Won't Stop Data Brokers From Selling Soldiers' Locations
The Army just disabled ad tracking on its phones after commercial location data was used to target US troops. The data-broker marketplace that made that possible is still open for business, and India's own version of it is barely regulated yet.
September 5, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Every RBI Approval for LIC's Bank Stakes Tops Out at 9.99 Percent
RBI has cleared LIC to hold up to 9.99% of ICICI Bank, the same ceiling it has now set for four different banks since 2021. The bank keeps changing. The number never does.
September 6, 2026
Business
How India's Bid to Cool Sugar Prices Raised Them Abroad
India opened duty free sugar imports to calm retail prices at home. The FAO's own numbers show that announcement was one of the reasons the world price, the one India will actually pay, jumped instead.
September 5, 2026
Business
India's Coal Buffer Failed the One Test It Exists For
India's coal buffer exists to absorb exactly this kind of forecastable monsoon and demand risk. The country's weather office flagged it a month ahead, and the buffer fell behind anyway.
September 5, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India Has Zero Ships That Can Fix Its Undersea Internet Cables
Up to 95 percent of India's international data to Europe, Africa and West Asia funnels through cables landing on one stretch of Mumbai coast, and India owns no ship that can repair a cut one.
September 4, 2026
Technology
Anthropic's AI Safety Net Guards the Operating System, Not Your Files
An AI coding agent wiped out 15 percent of a decade of Bengaluru heritage records while its own safety system blocked two attempts to stop it. The safeguard worked exactly as designed. It was just never designed to protect this.
September 2, 2026
Technology
China's Most Valuable Listed Firm Makes the Chip Washington Tried to Block
CXMT's stock market debut made it China's most valuable listed company, years after a US rule tried to keep it from fabricating advanced memory chips. India's flagship chip investment, by contrast, only assembles and tests memory made elsewhere.
August 30, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
A Pig Kidney Kept a Transplant Patient Off Dialysis for Nine Months
A genetically edited pig kidney kept a US patient off dialysis for 271 days before he received a human kidney, the first documented xenotransplant bridge. The result matters most where deceased donors, not surgical capacity, are the binding constraint.
September 4, 2026
Health
Kerala Nurses Cut Heart Failure Deaths by 22 Percent in a Landmark Trial
A Kerala hospital network cut heart failure deaths 22 percent by putting nurses in charge of care coordination, a benefit that matches what specialist-led teams have shown, in a country with one cardiologist for every 30,000 people.
September 2, 2026
Health
More Indian Households Face Ruinous Medical Bills Even as Out-of-Pocket Spending Falls
National accounts show out-of-pocket health spending's share falling for eight straight years. A patient-level study of drug-resistant infections shows why that number can still miss the sharpest end of the bill entirely.
September 1, 2026