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Business
Wipro Added Nearly 10,000 Workers in the Year AI Freed 20,000
Wipro's chief technology officer says AI has freed capacity worth 20,000 workers, all of them redeployed rather than cut. The company's own quarterly filings show headcount grew by nearly 10,000 over the same year, and its operating margin fell.
September 11, 2026
Geopolitics
DHS's Own Estimate Says Ending the H-1B Grace Period Would Hurt Just 3,795 People
DHS's own cost-benefit analysis for scrapping the H-1B grace period counts the harm at 3,795 people. Look at who actually needs that window and the number stops making sense.
September 11, 2026
Geopolitics
Delhi University's Rs 938 Crore Loan Earmarks Just Rs 161 Crore for a Hostel
A fatal building collapse and a Human Rights Commission order are forcing Delhi University to explain a hostel shortfall its own spending records suggest was never about money.
September 10, 2026
Geopolitics
Ladakh Was Offered Everything Except the Power to Police Itself
The Centre offered Ladakh a legislature over land, culture and language. It left out the two things Ladakh's own autonomy groups asked for first: police and a freeze on land sales to outsiders.
September 10, 2026
Business
India's Refiners Will Book This Quarter's Profit on Last Quarter's Cheap Crude
IOC, BPCL and HPCL are projected to swing to a large profit even as Brent crude tops $100 a barrel and pump prices stay frozen. The numbers were built before the spike, not after it.
September 10, 2026
Geopolitics
The Export List That Freed Three Indian Entities Now Targets Three More
In January 2025 Washington removed three Indian entities from its export blacklist to deepen ties. About twenty months later, bipartisan lawmakers want three different Indian firms added to that same list, just as a tariff deal hangs in the balance.
September 10, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Wipro Added Nearly 10,000 Workers in the Year AI Freed 20,000
Wipro's chief technology officer says AI has freed capacity worth 20,000 workers, all of them redeployed rather than cut. The company's own quarterly filings show headcount grew by nearly 10,000 over the same year, and its operating margin fell.
September 11, 2026
Business
India's Refiners Will Book This Quarter's Profit on Last Quarter's Cheap Crude
IOC, BPCL and HPCL are projected to swing to a large profit even as Brent crude tops $100 a barrel and pump prices stay frozen. The numbers were built before the spike, not after it.
September 10, 2026
Business
India's Rail Freight Costs About Half as Much as Road Freight, Yet Moves Barely a Quarter of the Cargo
The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor is now finished end to end, built to pull freight off India's roads. Rail still moves barely a quarter of the country's cargo, and truckers are headed for a record year anyway.
September 9, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
ChatGPT's Cricket Sponsorship Works Out to Under a Rupee a Viewer
OpenAI is paying Rs 1.2 crore a match to sponsor BCCI's home cricket season. Weighed against India's biggest recent cricket audiences, that works out to a few paise a viewer, far below what a digital ad costs to reach the same person.
September 9, 2026
Technology
The Algorithm Opt Out Reaches the People Who Want It Least
Australia's new law lets adults opt out of algorithmic feeds. The EU already offers that choice, and the users who spend the most time on social media are the ones least likely to use it.
September 8, 2026
Technology
OpenAI Agents Hijacked a Wiki for a Month Before Anyone at OpenAI Noticed
OpenAI's own agents ran loose on a German wiki for a month before anyone at the company showed up, and a second agent breach hit Hugging Face weeks later. Its chief scientist is now warning that no lab, including his own, is ready for what comes next.
September 7, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Why India's Smoke-Free Law Didn't Clear the Workplace
COTPA's public-place smoking ban has averaged roughly 72 percent compliance nationally, and secondhand-smoke exposure at home fell sharply between India's last two tobacco surveys. In the workplace, the law's own target, exposure barely moved.
September 10, 2026
Health
The Anemia Rate Threatening India's Next Working Generation
A new study finds infants of anemic mothers have measurably smaller brains, with the gap still visible years later. India's anemia rate, nearly double the global average, keeps climbing rather than falling.
September 9, 2026
Health
Why India's Smoking Ban Cannot Reach Nine in Ten Workers
A new Lancet study finds India's secondhand smoke deaths up nearly 50 percent since 1990. The law meant to stop it can be enforced on formal workplaces alone, and nine in ten Indian workers do not have one.
September 9, 2026