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Geopolitics
India Runs Its Biggest Trade Deficit With the Country It Trusts Least
Most of the world now views China more favorably than the US. India is one of only six holdouts, and by wide margins, even as its largest trade deficit with any country runs with China.
July 17, 2026
Business
India's Sharpest Tariff Tool Only Works on Countries Without a Deal
Six government working groups are shortlisting up to 100 products to replace with local output. New trade deals with the UK, EFTA and Australia have just locked in tariff cuts across most of India's tariff book, in categories the list is chasing.
July 17, 2026
Technology
Jio's 1,600 Satellites Will Run on Spectrum Pricing Its Own Lobby Called Unfair
IN-SPACe just cleared Reliance Jio's 1,600-satellite constellation for administrative spectrum assignment, the very pricing rule Jio's own trade body called unfair to terrestrial telecom a year earlier.
July 17, 2026
Business
India Is Reviving the UPI Fee It Killed to Beat Credit Cards
India zeroed out the UPI merchant fee in 2020 to beat credit cards, then only ever subsidized the smallest transactions. Now it wants large merchants, who never got the subsidy, to start paying again.
July 17, 2026
Markets
Reliance's Promoter Stake Just Crossed the Line That Forces Index Funds to Sell
Reliance's promoters spent an estimated Rs 8,500-9,000 crore this quarter to push their holding past 50 percent, read on the Street as confidence. Nifty and MSCI's free-float formulas read the same filing as a reason to trim the stock.
July 17, 2026
Technology
RBI Wants Banks to Own the Data Risks They Outsourced to Third Parties
RBI's new draft rules make banks name a senior officer who owns their data end to end, even when a fintech, BaaS platform or NBFC partner actually produced it.
July 16, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Financial Inclusion Index Is Rising on Usage, Not Quality
RBI's Financial Inclusion Index hit a record 70.0 for the year to March 2026, and RBI's own statement credits the gain to Usage alone. The Quality leg, the one it just named a five-year strategic priority, drew no such credit.
July 17, 2026
Business
India's Sharpest Tariff Tool Only Works on Countries Without a Deal
Six government working groups are shortlisting up to 100 products to replace with local output. New trade deals with the UK, EFTA and Australia have just locked in tariff cuts across most of India's tariff book, in categories the list is chasing.
July 17, 2026
Business
India Is Reviving the UPI Fee It Killed to Beat Credit Cards
India zeroed out the UPI merchant fee in 2020 to beat credit cards, then only ever subsidized the smallest transactions. Now it wants large merchants, who never got the subsidy, to start paying again.
July 17, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Jio's 1,600 Satellites Will Run on Spectrum Pricing Its Own Lobby Called Unfair
IN-SPACe just cleared Reliance Jio's 1,600-satellite constellation for administrative spectrum assignment, the very pricing rule Jio's own trade body called unfair to terrestrial telecom a year earlier.
July 17, 2026
Technology
RBI Wants Banks to Own the Data Risks They Outsourced to Third Parties
RBI's new draft rules make banks name a senior officer who owns their data end to end, even when a fintech, BaaS platform or NBFC partner actually produced it.
July 16, 2026
Technology
India's Largest Nuclear Plant Leaked Files From a Vendor, Not the Reactor
A hacking group's dark-web dump tied to India's largest nuclear plant traces back to a vendor's data centre, not NPCIL's own network, the same wall a 2019 breach stopped at.
July 15, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh Are Dying From a Disease a Cheap Test Could Catch
A Lancet series warns the world about undiagnosed kidney disease. Andhra Pradesh's Uddanam farm belt already lived through it, and India built a system that treats kidney failure, not the disease that causes it.
July 16, 2026
Health
Serum Institute Stockpiled 620,000 Doses for a Disease India Has Never Had
The Serum Institute of India built an Ebola vaccine stockpile in two weeks flat. India has never recorded a single case of the disease it protects against.
July 16, 2026
Health
Chandipura Virus Kills Children Faster Than India Can Test For It
Gujarat has confirmed just 7 of 27 tested Chandipura cases, with 8 results still pending days later. The same lab bottleneck undercounted the 2024 outbreak, and there is still no vaccine to fall back on.
July 15, 2026