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Business
Tata Sons Grew Profit While Its Dividend Income Fell
Tata Sons booked a one-off gain to cover a 10% fall in its core dividend income, even as Air India, Tata Digital and Tata Electronics lost a combined Rs 28,823 crore in FY26.
July 28, 2026
Science
The World's Most Oxygen-Starved Sea Is Shrinking While the Rest of the Ocean Catches Up
A June 2026 review just proposed ocean deoxygenation as a new planetary boundary. Off India's west coast, the Arabian Sea has already run that experiment for decades, and the record it has produced is stranger than a warning.
July 28, 2026
Technology
Why a Leaked Claude Chat Could Cost an Indian Company, Not Anthropic
Google had indexed fewer than 600 shared Claude conversations before the pages came down this week. Under India's new breach rules, the penalty for one of them may fall on the Indian company that used Claude, not on Anthropic.
July 28, 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
Markets
India's Stock Ownership Is Broadening Even as Foreign Investors Flee at a Record Pace
Domestic funds now own more of India's stock market than foreign investors by the widest gap in a hundred quarters, and foreign investors are selling at a record pace. The ownership data show that money is spreading into more companies, not concentrating into fewer.
July 27, 2026
Health
Why China Fined a Hospital So Little for a Child's Gene-Editing Death
A Chinese hospital paid a fine of about $3,500 after a 6-year-old patient died in an experimental $860,000 gene-editing trial. India's own stem-cell clinics operate under the same kind of unenforceable guidelines.
July 27, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Bank of Baroda's Breach Puts India's Data Penalty Law to the Test
Bank of Baroda traces its data leak to one compromised employee email account. The real test is whether that counts as failing India's law on reasonable security safeguards.
July 28, 2026
Business
Tata Sons Grew Profit While Its Dividend Income Fell
Tata Sons booked a one-off gain to cover a 10% fall in its core dividend income, even as Air India, Tata Digital and Tata Electronics lost a combined Rs 28,823 crore in FY26.
July 28, 2026
Business
India's Migrant Workers Send Home More Dollars Than Foreign Investors Bring In
Indians working abroad sent home an estimated $129 billion in 2024, the largest remittance inflow to any country and well ahead of what foreign investors put into India. Industrial policy still spends its subsidies chasing factories instead.
July 27, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Why a Leaked Claude Chat Could Cost an Indian Company, Not Anthropic
Google had indexed fewer than 600 shared Claude conversations before the pages came down this week. Under India's new breach rules, the penalty for one of them may fall on the Indian company that used Claude, not on Anthropic.
July 28, 2026
Technology
Nitin Gadkari Is Suing Meta and Google Instead of Using India's Own Takedown Rule
The Bombay High Court just let Nitin Gadkari sue Meta, Google and X directly over AI deepfakes from the E20 fuel backlash. His own government built a three-hour takedown rule for exactly this content five months earlier, and the lawsuit does not use it.
July 27, 2026
Technology
India Answered the AI Copyright Question the US Courts Still Haven't
The Delhi High Court just ruled that training ChatGPT on a newswire's content is fair dealing, weighing 100 million weekly Indian users against one publisher's claim. The US and Canada haven't gotten this far.
July 24, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
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
Health
Why China Fined a Hospital So Little for a Child's Gene-Editing Death
A Chinese hospital paid a fine of about $3,500 after a 6-year-old patient died in an experimental $860,000 gene-editing trial. India's own stem-cell clinics operate under the same kind of unenforceable guidelines.
July 27, 2026
Health
India Is Gaining Years of Life, Not Years of Health
India's life expectancy keeps climbing. Its healthy life expectancy has not kept pace, and the gap between the two, already wider than the world average, is about to meet a population of the old that will more than double by 2050.
July 27, 2026