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Markets
India Had Its Best Market Week in Six Years by Missing the AI Boom
The Nifty and Sensex gained about 9% in a week while the Nasdaq-100 fell into a correction. India's lack of AI stocks, a discount all year, turned into a hedge. It has not yet fixed 2026.
November 7, 2026
Business
Foreign Money in India Shrank in Dollars While Indian Money Abroad Grew 27 Percent
The RBI's new census says Indian companies' overseas investment jumped 41 percent. In dollars it is 27 percent, foreign money in India fell, and most of the outward surge was loans.
November 7, 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
Business
Indian Car Dealers Are Holding Twice the Stock They Want
October's 14 percent fall in car registrations is mostly a Diwali calendar illusion. The stock on dealers' lots, about twice the industry benchmark, is not, and rates just rose.
November 7, 2026
Business
The $119 Billion NRI Deposit Surge Is Far Too Big to Be About Oil
Net non-resident deposit inflows reached $119.2 billion in five months, 21 times a year earlier. India's oil bill and current account gap are a fraction of that. The money came because the RBI opened a swap window, and it comes due in three to five years.
November 7, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Foreign Money in India Shrank in Dollars While Indian Money Abroad Grew 27 Percent
The RBI's new census says Indian companies' overseas investment jumped 41 percent. In dollars it is 27 percent, foreign money in India fell, and most of the outward surge was loans.
November 7, 2026
Business
Indian Car Dealers Are Holding Twice the Stock They Want
October's 14 percent fall in car registrations is mostly a Diwali calendar illusion. The stock on dealers' lots, about twice the industry benchmark, is not, and rates just rose.
November 7, 2026
Business
The $119 Billion NRI Deposit Surge Is Far Too Big to Be About Oil
Net non-resident deposit inflows reached $119.2 billion in five months, 21 times a year earlier. India's oil bill and current account gap are a fraction of that. The money came because the RBI opened a swap window, and it comes due in three to five years.
November 7, 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
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
Health
India Confirms Hundreds of Heat Deaths a Year, but El Niño May Bring 55,000 by March
A new tracker projects about 55,000 heat deaths in India between October and March, most of them in March. The official count recorded 159 heat deaths in all of 2024, so the toll the country will be judged on may never appear in its own numbers.
October 29, 2026