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Business
India's First Retail Survey Counts Enterprises, Not Sales
MoSPI's new ASISSE survey samples GST filers to count enterprises, not the sales they ring up. Even that count folds into a GDP line still bundled with hotels and transport.
July 11, 2026
Business
India Is Spending Far More on Data Centres Than the Market Is Worth
Government and industry trackers count tens of billions already committed to India's data centres. KPMG's own model values the market they are meant to serve at under $7 billion five years out.
July 11, 2026
Health
Late Diagnosis, Not Rising Risk, Explains India's Cancer Survival Gap
India's cancer burden is not spiraling out of proportion to the world's. Its survival odds are, and the gap traces to when patients are found and how much treatment reaches them.
July 11, 2026
Business
Cognizant's US Business Runs on the Visas Washington Is Now Investigating
A new federal task force is investigating fraud in the H-1B and PERM visa programs, and its inspector general named Cognizant specifically. The company's own filings show why it has more riding on that inquiry than the assumption that Indian IT firms would sit this crackdown out.
July 11, 2026
Business
India's Food Prices Have Already Cleared the RBI's Inflation Target
India's food prices are already above the Reserve Bank's 4% inflation target, and the RBI's own forecast shows it. The monsoon risk behind that number is still getting worse, not better.
July 10, 2026
Business
TCS Hired 9,279 Workers as Elara Securities Cut Its Target 17 Percent
TCS's Q1 FY27 results split analysts down the middle: one broker cut its price target, another raised it. The company's own hiring, its fastest pace in four years, says more about AI and Indian IT jobs than either note.
July 10, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's First Retail Survey Counts Enterprises, Not Sales
MoSPI's new ASISSE survey samples GST filers to count enterprises, not the sales they ring up. Even that count folds into a GDP line still bundled with hotels and transport.
July 11, 2026
Business
India Is Spending Far More on Data Centres Than the Market Is Worth
Government and industry trackers count tens of billions already committed to India's data centres. KPMG's own model values the market they are meant to serve at under $7 billion five years out.
July 11, 2026
Business
Cognizant's US Business Runs on the Visas Washington Is Now Investigating
A new federal task force is investigating fraud in the H-1B and PERM visa programs, and its inspector general named Cognizant specifically. The company's own filings show why it has more riding on that inquiry than the assumption that Indian IT firms would sit this crackdown out.
July 11, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
The Spam-Free Number Series India Built Is Now Full of Spam
TRAI reserved the 1600 number series for government and BFSI callers and legally barred apps like Truecaller from flagging it as spam. Truecaller's own data says spam moved in anyway, and by law, nobody can tag it.
July 9, 2026
Technology
Samsung's Chip Profit Windfall Is Coming Out of Its Own Phone Business
Samsung just guided a record, 19-fold jump in quarterly profit on the AI-driven memory shortage. The same shortage is projected to cut its own phone division's profit by roughly 61 percent, and it is already squeezing which phones Indian buyers can afford.
July 7, 2026
Technology
Anyone Within Fifteen Metres Can Turn Off a Delhi E-Rickshaw
A Bluetooth app let strangers stall e-rickshaws mid-shift for a laugh, and the government pulled it within a day. The unregistered fleet and unvetted batteries behind it are untouched.
July 4, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Late Diagnosis, Not Rising Risk, Explains India's Cancer Survival Gap
India's cancer burden is not spiraling out of proportion to the world's. Its survival odds are, and the gap traces to when patients are found and how much treatment reaches them.
July 11, 2026
Health
Rural Telangana Men Now Drink and Smoke More Than the Cities
Rural Telangana's men now drink and smoke more than the men in its own cities. The disease hasn't caught up yet on paper, but the state already ties for India's worst kidney damage from it.
July 3, 2026
Health
This Cancer Blood Test Flags 2,362 False Alarms For Every Real Case
Zydus and Apollo are bringing a blood test for colorectal cancer to India. Run its own published accuracy against how rare the disease actually is, and most of its positive results will not be cancer.
July 3, 2026