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Jefferies' Bond Portfolio Holds India's 15-Year Debt While Foreign Funds Sell It
A 7.38% yield on India's 15-year bond looks like a bargain on paper. In September, foreign funds sold FAR bonds for the first time since March, and the RBI's reserves paid for the gap.
October 3, 2026
Geopolitics
India Held Pump Prices Flat and Its Excise Revenue Fell 23 Percent
The UN expects fuel subsidies worldwide to pass $1 trillion in 2026. India's share hides in a tax cut, not the subsidy budget, and the first five months of accounts show the bill arriving.
October 2, 2026
Business
India's Factories Added 14 Lakh Jobs, but Output per Worker Rose Just 2 Percent
The 'growth without jobs' take fails for India's registered factories in 2024-25: 14 lakh people were added. The catch is that each added worker produced little extra, and the wage bill grew mostly because of headcount.
October 2, 2026
Health
India Has Regained Its Pre-Covid Lifespan, but WHO Cannot Say by How Much
WHO's new estimates say India's life expectancy is back above its 2019 level, ahead of the world. The 95 percent range around the 2023 figure runs 7.1 years, three times as wide as the 2019 range.
October 2, 2026
Business
India Is Cutting Its Diesel Export Tax Just as America Hunts for Europe's Diesel
India's diesel export levy fell to ₹16 a litre on 1 October, the day Washington reportedly told Europe to release diesel stocks or face a US export ban. The levy is not a tax. It is a dial, and it is being turned toward the exporter.
October 1, 2026
Business
Maruti Beat the Forecast by Eight Points and Its Shares Still Fell Nearly 5 Percent
Maruti's September sales grew 24.4 percent against a projected 15 to 17, and its shares closed down 4.86 percent. September 2025 was a pre-GST-cut trough, so the growth was a base effect, and Bajaj's domestic sales show what is left once the base is stripped out.
October 1, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's GST Rate Cut Has Not Yet Paid for Itself
A year after the GST rate cut, domestic collections grew 2.8 percent in April to June while consumer spending grew 9.9 percent. Imports and a re-labelled cess made the headline look stronger than the shop floor.
October 3, 2026
Business
India's Factories Added 14 Lakh Jobs, but Output per Worker Rose Just 2 Percent
The 'growth without jobs' take fails for India's registered factories in 2024-25: 14 lakh people were added. The catch is that each added worker produced little extra, and the wage bill grew mostly because of headcount.
October 2, 2026
Business
India Is Cutting Its Diesel Export Tax Just as America Hunts for Europe's Diesel
India's diesel export levy fell to ₹16 a litre on 1 October, the day Washington reportedly told Europe to release diesel stocks or face a US export ban. The levy is not a tax. It is a dial, and it is being turned toward the exporter.
October 1, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Google's Hardened Framework Cuts XSS Bugs by 250 to 1
Google's AI bug hunter confirmed over 500 exploitable security flaws across its web apps, and only 2 on the hardened framework built to stop exactly that bug. The gap says more about templates than about talent.
September 27, 2026
Technology
A Litigation Funder Bankrolled the Lawsuit That Just Cost Apple $5.7 Billion
A federal jury ordered Apple to pay $5.72 billion over two haptic patents, then discovery showed the winning plaintiff's case was bankrolled by a subsidiary of litigation funder Burford Capital.
September 27, 2026
Technology
RatHat Steals Bank PINs Without Ever Touching the OTP
A new Android banking trojan reads PINs straight off the screen using the accessibility tool built for blind users. India's OTP defense never even sees it.
September 22, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
India Has Regained Its Pre-Covid Lifespan, but WHO Cannot Say by How Much
WHO's new estimates say India's life expectancy is back above its 2019 level, ahead of the world. The 95 percent range around the 2023 figure runs 7.1 years, three times as wide as the 2019 range.
October 2, 2026
Health
India Tells Doctors to Cut NSAID Doses, Not Cut the Combination Pills
CDSCO's new circular tells doctors to prescribe the lowest effective NSAID dose. It never mentions the combination pills that already dominate India's NSAID market.
September 28, 2026
Health
India Built Its TB Elimination Plan on Protection That Fades in a Year
A new 24-country study finds TB preventive treatment protects for eight to thirteen years in low- and medium-burden countries. In high-burden settings like India, exactly where the national programme is leaning hardest on it, protection starts fading within a year.
September 28, 2026