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India's Banks Are Funding the Loan Boom by Slowing Their Bond Buying
Bank credit grew 19.3 percent in the year to October 31, yet deposits added more new rupees than loans did. The squeeze is showing up in how few government bonds banks are buying.
November 14, 2026
Business
Royal Enfield's Record Quarter Was Capped by Its Factories, Not Its Buyers
Royal Enfield sold a record 376,722 motorcycles in July-September 2026. Dealers still ended Diwali with about a week of stock, a third of normal. The constraint is now the factory, not the buyer.
November 14, 2026
Business
India's Gig Levy Counts the Task but Not the Wait
App-booked house help is sold by the hour, but India's new gig social-security levy is pegged to what platforms pay, capped at 5% of payouts. The Economic Survey's own fix, an hourly floor that counts waiting time, is the rule that would reach the gap.
November 14, 2026
Business
Most of India's R&D Is Now Done Outside Government
Private performers did 51.8% of India's R&D in 2023-24, up from 33.8% in 2019-20. MoSPI's proposed knowledge accounts start with R&D, so the first thing they will measure is that recent private shift.
November 14, 2026
Business
Over Half the Cars VinFast Ships in India Are Built for Taxi Fleets
Worldwide, VinFast leans less and less on its founder's taxi company. In India, the fleet car that company drives was an estimated 54% of factory dispatches, and no filing says who bought them.
November 14, 2026
Business
Vodafone Idea Must Triple Its Cash Profit Just to Keep Paying for Spectrum
Vi's spectrum instalments climb from about ₹7,000 crore this year to ₹27,000 crore in FY29, almost exactly the tripled cash profit its turnaround plan promises. The government, its largest shareholder, is on both sides of that bet.
November 13, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
The Deposit Window That Paid for India's Deficit Five Times Over Has Closed
NRI deposits of $125.6 billion paid for India's $25.8 billion current account deficit in April to September 2026 nearly five times over. The special window that drew them shut on August 31, and September brought in just $3.7 billion.
November 14, 2026
Business
India's Banks Are Funding the Loan Boom by Slowing Their Bond Buying
Bank credit grew 19.3 percent in the year to October 31, yet deposits added more new rupees than loans did. The squeeze is showing up in how few government bonds banks are buying.
November 14, 2026
Business
Royal Enfield's Record Quarter Was Capped by Its Factories, Not Its Buyers
Royal Enfield sold a record 376,722 motorcycles in July-September 2026. Dealers still ended Diwali with about a week of stock, a third of normal. The constraint is now the factory, not the buyer.
November 14, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
eMudhra Said Its Other Certificate Authorities Were Safe, Then Revoked Eight More
Firefox and Chrome blocked eMudhra's weak keys on the day they were reported. Three weeks later the Indian company revoked eight more issuers it had told Mozilla were not impacted, and that reversal, not the bug, is what ended its web certificate business.
November 12, 2026
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
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
India's TB Deaths Fell 38 Percent While WHO Reviews How Many Indians Catch It
WHO credits India with a 38 percent fall in TB deaths since 2015, ahead of the world. The same report puts India's count of new cases under review, and new cases are what India pledged to end.
November 13, 2026
Health
The Cancers Diabetes Raises Most Are the Ones India Does Not Screen
India's screening programme checks the same adults for diabetes and for three cancers. Of the six cancers with robust links to diabetes, it looks for one.
November 11, 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