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Subhash Chandra's Creditors Are Set to Recover Just 0.03 Percent of What They Are Owed
An NCLT order lets Subhash Chandra settle Rs 22,006 crore in debt for Rs 6.5 crore. India's personal-guarantee insolvency cases were already recovering almost nothing before his.
August 31, 2026
Business
India Assembles Nearly Every Phone It Sells but Barely a Quarter of the Value
India assembles 99 percent of the phones it sells, up from a quarter in 2014. The value inside each handset is still mostly imported.
August 31, 2026
Business
Arunachal Pradesh's Revenue Surplus Dwarfs Punjab's Deficit
Punjab's 2024-25 budget commits 76 percent of its revenue to salaries, interest and pensions before a rupee reaches anything else. In the same fiscal year, Arunachal Pradesh closed a revenue surplus worth 15 percent of its economy.
August 31, 2026
Business
Punjab Carries India's Heaviest State Interest Burden
RBI data show Punjab hands over 23 percent of its own revenue just to service debt, the highest ratio of any Indian state or Union Territory, while smaller, less developed states post surpluses. State wealth and state fiscal health are not the same thing.
August 31, 2026
Business
India's 7.8% Growth Quarter Isn't Fast Enough for Its Own 2047 Goal
A 7.8% quarter beat the central bank's forecast, but reaching India's own 2047 income target needs a compounding pace near the top of the government's own range, not the middle of it.
August 31, 2026
Markets
India's Closing Auction Is Producing the Volatility It Was Built to Prevent
SEBI's new Closing Auction Session was meant to stop closing-price manipulation. A single trader supplied up to 99.91 percent of the buy orders behind its wildest swings, and the volatility has kept coming.
August 31, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Subhash Chandra's Creditors Are Set to Recover Just 0.03 Percent of What They Are Owed
An NCLT order lets Subhash Chandra settle Rs 22,006 crore in debt for Rs 6.5 crore. India's personal-guarantee insolvency cases were already recovering almost nothing before his.
August 31, 2026
Business
India Assembles Nearly Every Phone It Sells but Barely a Quarter of the Value
India assembles 99 percent of the phones it sells, up from a quarter in 2014. The value inside each handset is still mostly imported.
August 31, 2026
Business
Arunachal Pradesh's Revenue Surplus Dwarfs Punjab's Deficit
Punjab's 2024-25 budget commits 76 percent of its revenue to salaries, interest and pensions before a rupee reaches anything else. In the same fiscal year, Arunachal Pradesh closed a revenue surplus worth 15 percent of its economy.
August 31, 2026
Technology & Science
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
Technology
ChatGPT Ads Reach India Three Days After Europe, Before Its Privacy Rules Bind
OpenAI turned on ChatGPT ads in India on August 27, three days after the same feature launched across Europe under a GDPR consent rule. India will not have an equivalent operative rule until mid-2027.
August 28, 2026
Technology
India's SIM Cap Can't Reach Rings That Split Connections Across Many Buyers
A new circular blocks anyone who already holds nine connections from getting a tenth. A ring that spreads its SIMs across many separate buyers, each under the limit, never trips it.
August 21, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
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
Health
The Pancreatic Cancer Drug That Doubles Survival Costs 173 Times India's Income
Daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival in advanced pancreatic cancer and just cleared the FDA at $477,600 a year. In India, that is 173 times the average income, and most patients are diagnosed too late for it to matter anyway.
August 27, 2026
Health
PM2.5 Carries the Largest Cancer Risk of Any Studied Air Pollutant
A new global study puts PM2.5 ahead of nitrogen dioxide and ozone as the pollutant most linked to cancer. India's air runs more than ten times over the WHO's guideline for it, which is exactly where the larger number lands.
August 26, 2026