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RBI's Rupee Rescue Carries a $5.7 Billion Annual Bill
RBI's dollar-deposit facility drew a record $136 billion and closed a month early, its own success outrunning its target. Analysts estimate the bill RBI itself is carrying for that rescue at $5.7 billion a year.
September 4, 2026
Health
A Pig Kidney Kept a Transplant Patient Off Dialysis for Nine Months
A genetically edited pig kidney kept a US patient off dialysis for 271 days before he received a human kidney, the first documented xenotransplant bridge. The result matters most where deceased donors, not surgical capacity, are the binding constraint.
September 4, 2026
Technology
India Has Zero Ships That Can Fix Its Undersea Internet Cables
Up to 95 percent of India's international data to Europe, Africa and West Asia funnels through cables landing on one stretch of Mumbai coast, and India owns no ship that can repair a cut one.
September 4, 2026
Markets
HDFC Bank's Loan Book Is Still Almost Double ICICI's Despite the Stock Slide
ICICI Bank's Nifty 50 weight has closed to within 40 basis points of HDFC Bank's after a brutal year for HDFC Bank's stock. By loan book and profit, HDFC Bank is still nearly twice the bank.
September 4, 2026
Geopolitics
The Supreme Court Cannot Order States to Raise Judges' Retirement Age
Seven states have agreed to keep their judicial officers working to 62. The Supreme Court cannot make the rest comply, and even full compliance would not fill a single one of India's 7,310 vacant judge posts.
September 4, 2026
Markets
India's Bond Market Ignored Its Own Credit Rating Upgrade
Japan's JCR lifted India's sovereign rating well clear of speculative grade on September 2, 2026. S&P, Fitch and Moody's, the raters that actually move global bond flows, have not followed, and India's bond yields rose that same day instead of falling.
September 3, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
RBI's Rupee Rescue Carries a $5.7 Billion Annual Bill
RBI's dollar-deposit facility drew a record $136 billion and closed a month early, its own success outrunning its target. Analysts estimate the bill RBI itself is carrying for that rescue at $5.7 billion a year.
September 4, 2026
Business
The Same GDP Data Produced a 7.8% Growth Rate and a 2.6% One
A critique of India's headline 7.8% GDP print puts real growth at just 2.6%, using the same Rs 88.27 lakh crore both sides agree on. The fight is over which year you compare it to, and that same base year sets the government's own deficit and debt ratios.
September 3, 2026
Business
Tata Sons Put Conditions on Its Air India Bailout for the First Time
Air India is close to receiving over Rs 10,000 crore from its owners. For the first time since the airline's turnaround began, the money comes with conditions attached.
September 3, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India Has Zero Ships That Can Fix Its Undersea Internet Cables
Up to 95 percent of India's international data to Europe, Africa and West Asia funnels through cables landing on one stretch of Mumbai coast, and India owns no ship that can repair a cut one.
September 4, 2026
Technology
Anthropic's AI Safety Net Guards the Operating System, Not Your Files
An AI coding agent wiped out 15 percent of a decade of Bengaluru heritage records while its own safety system blocked two attempts to stop it. The safeguard worked exactly as designed. It was just never designed to protect this.
September 2, 2026
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
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
A Pig Kidney Kept a Transplant Patient Off Dialysis for Nine Months
A genetically edited pig kidney kept a US patient off dialysis for 271 days before he received a human kidney, the first documented xenotransplant bridge. The result matters most where deceased donors, not surgical capacity, are the binding constraint.
September 4, 2026
Health
Kerala Nurses Cut Heart Failure Deaths by 22 Percent in a Landmark Trial
A Kerala hospital network cut heart failure deaths 22 percent by putting nurses in charge of care coordination, a benefit that matches what specialist-led teams have shown, in a country with one cardiologist for every 30,000 people.
September 2, 2026
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