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Markets
SEBI's Anti-Rigging Closing Auction Was Allegedly Gamed Within 10 Days of Launch
SEBI replaced the 30-minute average close with an auction to stop price rigging. Its own order says one firm placed 87 percent of the Sensex buying on an expiry day, and the regulator now proposes pulling derivatives settlement away from the auction.
October 11, 2026
Technology
Starlink's Real Rival in India Is Jio's Home Broadband, Not Its Cheap Mobile Data
Mobile data costs Rs 7.51 a gigabyte, a price no dish can match. The exposure is home broadband, where wireless lines now add subscribers as fast as every wired line combined.
October 11, 2026
Business
India's Steel Target Is Easier Than Its Past, but Coal Makes It Harder
The draft policy would nearly triple capacity by 2047, yet it needs a slower yearly pace than India just delivered. The real stretch is the coking coal that every added tonne depends on.
October 11, 2026
Business
How India Saved Welfare Money It Had Not Yet Spent
NITI Aayog says bad beneficiary records inflate welfare outlays by 4 to 7 percent a year. The clean-ups offered as proof are counted in payments avoided, and PM-KISAN has recovered ₹416 crore in cash against an estimated ₹9,000 crore saved.
October 10, 2026
Markets
India's Reserves Fell by Three Jio IPOs in a Single Week
Jio's IPO is billed as the biggest India has seen, and it lands as the RBI tightens. Set against the central bank's own operations, the issue is small. The rupee is the bigger story.
October 10, 2026
Markets
Why the RBI Is Taking Oil Companies Out of the Dollar Market
From Monday the RBI will sell oil companies every dollar they need each day, and it has cut speculative hedging room twentyfold. Reserves have grown. The point is to stop the market from seeing the demand at all.
October 10, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Official Data Centre Power Forecast Nearly Doubled Between March and July
Three official figures for 2031-32 data centre demand sit between 13.56 GW and 26.3 GW. The grid plan rests on one peak-demand number, and inter-state transmission costs are pooled across the network's users.
October 11, 2026
Business
India's Steel Target Is Easier Than Its Past, but Coal Makes It Harder
The draft policy would nearly triple capacity by 2047, yet it needs a slower yearly pace than India just delivered. The real stretch is the coking coal that every added tonne depends on.
October 11, 2026
Business
How India Saved Welfare Money It Had Not Yet Spent
NITI Aayog says bad beneficiary records inflate welfare outlays by 4 to 7 percent a year. The clean-ups offered as proof are counted in payments avoided, and PM-KISAN has recovered ₹416 crore in cash against an estimated ₹9,000 crore saved.
October 10, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Starlink's Real Rival in India Is Jio's Home Broadband, Not Its Cheap Mobile Data
Mobile data costs Rs 7.51 a gigabyte, a price no dish can match. The exposure is home broadband, where wireless lines now add subscribers as fast as every wired line combined.
October 11, 2026
Technology
India Lost Its Cheapest Phones to the AI Memory Boom, and Almost Nothing Else
India's smartphone market fell 11.1% in Q2 2026. Strip out phones under US$100 and the rest of the market did not shrink at all. AI data centres are repricing one band of buyers, not everyone.
October 6, 2026
Technology
Google's Hardened Framework Cuts XSS Bugs by 250 to 1
Google's AI bug hunter confirmed over 500 exploitable security flaws across its web apps, and only 2 on the hardened framework built to stop exactly that bug. The gap says more about templates than about talent.
September 27, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
WHO Bars Obesity Drugs for Children Under 10 as Cheaper Versions Reach India
WHO's new guideline rules out obesity drugs and surgery for children aged 0 to 9, on thin evidence. In India, generic semaglutide at Rs 1,300 to Rs 4,200 a month has removed much of the price barrier, leaving guidance as the main one.
October 8, 2026
Health
Two Large Listed Hospital Chains Raised Bills Slower Than Parliament's Inflation Figure
A parliamentary panel wants foreign hospital capital curbed and prices capped, citing medical inflation of 10 to 13 percent. Two large listed chains report bill growth of 5 and 8 percent, and Apollo credits case mix.
October 5, 2026
Health
Serum Institute's HPV Vaccine Cleared WHO While India Vaccinates With Gardasil
WHO prequalified Cervavac on 25 September 2026, the sixth HPV vaccine to clear the gate. India's own free programme, launched in February, runs on Merck's Gardasil.
October 5, 2026