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Why India's Satellite-Tolling Plan Is Stalled as NH-48 Goes Barrier-Free
NHAI's satellite-tolling plan has been stuck in committee review since mid-2025 over security and privacy concerns. The barrier-free system now live on NH-48 runs on number-plate cameras and FASTag instead, and it already delivers most of the promised speed.
August 2, 2026
Business
RBI Lets Banks Pay Big Depositors More Than Everyone Else
RBI's new rules let banks price deposits of 3 crore rupees and up against a Basel liquidity formula from October 2026. Three of five bank categories, and every small saver, still get one fixed rate.
August 2, 2026
Business
India's Record July Car Sales Are Dealer Stock, Not Customer Demand
Maruti and Hyundai just posted their best months ever, but those are factory dispatches to dealers, not cars bought by customers. Dealer lots already hold more stock than the industry's own benchmark allows.
August 2, 2026
Geopolitics
America's Scarcest Missile Interceptor Is Also Its Slowest to Build
The Pentagon is asking Congress for $18.2 billion to refill the interceptors the Iran war used up. The Patriot line can be rebuilt fast; THAAD's own fix is already funded too, but it does not land until 2032.
August 2, 2026
Business
India's GST Jump Owed As Much to Imports as to Domestic Sales
July's GST print grew 15.4%, the fastest pace in over a year. Split the number into its domestic and import lines and a smaller, price-sensitive import base added almost as much as the far larger domestic economy did.
August 1, 2026
Business
India's Fertiliser Subsidy Rewards the One Nutrient It Wants Farmers to Use Less
Government appeals for balanced fertiliser use keep failing. Parliament's own committee has already explained why: urea's price is fixed and cheap while everything else went to market pricing.
August 1, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
EPFO's Own Rulebook Let It Lose Rs 1,800 Crore to Anil Ambani's Company
The CBI's Rs 1,816 crore case against Anil Ambani follows an investment EPFO's own mandate permitted, and a debt resolution the NCLT had already closed two years earlier.
August 2, 2026
Business
Why India's Satellite-Tolling Plan Is Stalled as NH-48 Goes Barrier-Free
NHAI's satellite-tolling plan has been stuck in committee review since mid-2025 over security and privacy concerns. The barrier-free system now live on NH-48 runs on number-plate cameras and FASTag instead, and it already delivers most of the promised speed.
August 2, 2026
Business
RBI Lets Banks Pay Big Depositors More Than Everyone Else
RBI's new rules let banks price deposits of 3 crore rupees and up against a Basel liquidity formula from October 2026. Three of five bank categories, and every small saver, still get one fixed rate.
August 2, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
The Rule That Killed Free Basics Just Let a Paid Fast Lane Through
India's net neutrality rule was built to ban paid fast lanes after the Free Basics fight. A 5G plan just tested it, and the regulator's first read found no violation.
July 31, 2026
Technology
Pronto Pays Its Workers Double to Wear Cameras on the Job
Pronto pays its home-service workers double to let a camera record the job for AI training data. The wage premium, not a consent process, is what actually buys the worker's participation.
July 30, 2026
Technology
India's Solar Grid Still Runs on the Chinese Inverters Washington Just Banned
The FCC just banned new Chinese-made grid inverters over remote-shutdown risk. India's solar buildout already runs on them, and nothing requires that to change.
July 30, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Why Kerala's Dengue Patients Are Twelve Times More Likely to Die Than Tamil Nadu's
Tamil Nadu carries India's biggest dengue caseload and one of its lowest death tolls; Kerala runs the opposite trade, with far fewer cases but far more deaths. The gap is Kerala's population, not its outbreak.
August 1, 2026
Health
India Meets Just 0.2 Percent of Its Own Heart Transplant Need
A new Lancet analysis finds India covers just 0.2 percent of its own heart transplant need and 7.2 percent of kidney need. The shortfall traces to where transplant capacity sits, not to how many people need one.
July 30, 2026
Health
India's Dementia Risk Is Led by a Lack of Schooling, Not Diabetes
A Bengaluru cohort study points to diabetes and hearing loss as India's dementia risk profile. The country's own nationally representative study names a different leading factor by a wide margin, and diabetes does not even reach significance.
July 30, 2026