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Business

India's Biggest AI Users at Work Are Not in Customer Service

SHRM's workforce forecast puts back office jobs at the top of AI's disruption list. Google's own usage data says India's heaviest AI users at work are designers, writers and other creative professionals instead.

September 16, 2026

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Health

India's 58,000 Snakebite Deaths Are Not an Antivenom Problem

A nanobody antivenom from IISc Bengaluru and DTU protects mice against India's deadliest cobras. India's 58,000 annual snakebite deaths trace mostly to a health system that cannot get any antivenom to a patient in time.

September 16, 2026

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Geopolitics

The US Just Ended 58 Years of Official Silence on Space Weapons

A US official said out loud, for the first time, that Space Force weapons are already in orbit, a capability long assumed but never confirmed. Naming it, not building it, is the actual break.

September 15, 2026

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Health

India's IV Sets Carry Bigger Markups Than the Knee Implants NPPA Already Capped

NPPA cut hospital device prices by up to 83 percent after 2017, but it capped only a handful of categories. IV sets, stop cocks and syringes carry no cap at all, and markups on them run several times higher than what NPPA was fixing.

September 15, 2026

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Business

India's Record Export Month Only Narrowed the Trade Gap by 360 Million

August exports hit a record 43.81 billion dollars, up 26 percent from a year earlier. Imports rose almost as fast, so India's trade deficit narrowed by just 360 million dollars.

September 15, 2026

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Health

India Serves Its Chai at the Temperature a New Cancer Study Just Flagged

A pooled study of almost 1 million UK adults, published this month, found drinking tea or coffee very hot triples the risk of one cancer. India serves its chai the same way, and the fix is free.

September 15, 2026

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