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Anyone Within Fifteen Metres Can Turn Off a Delhi E-Rickshaw
A Bluetooth app let strangers stall e-rickshaws mid-shift for a laugh, and the government pulled it within a day. The unregistered fleet and unvetted batteries behind it are untouched.
July 4, 2026
Markets
Gold Explains Nearly All of India's Latest Reserves Drop
Reserves fell $5.65 billion in a week and touched a 15-month low. Almost all of that, $5.39 billion, was the gold line, not the currency the RBI would spend defending the rupee.
July 4, 2026
Markets
India's Registered Investment Advisers Are Vanishing as Retail Trading Hits Records
SEBI's own board papers show the number of licensed investment advisers falling since 2021, even as India's investor base hits records. The people filling the gap are not licensed at all.
July 4, 2026
Business
India's Own Test Data Backs the E20 Mileage Complaints It Calls a Myth
The government's June 2026 rebuttal calls E20 mileage and engine damage complaints unsubstantiated. Its own certifying committee already measured a real, if smaller, loss from the very same fuel.
July 4, 2026
Business
India's Small-Town Flight Scheme Has Already Grounded Half Its Routes
India just extended UDAN, its regional flight subsidy, for ten more years at Rs 28,840 crore. Its own numbers show nearly half the routes launched since 2016 have already shut down, and the single biggest subsidy check went to the airline that already dominates the sky.
July 4, 2026
Markets
India's Gold Jewellery Demand Fell 19% as Investment Demand Rose 54%
India's gold jewellery demand just hit its second-lowest quarter in 26 years, even as total demand rose. The gap is investment buying, and it is about to collide with a fresh import duty.
July 3, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Own Test Data Backs the E20 Mileage Complaints It Calls a Myth
The government's June 2026 rebuttal calls E20 mileage and engine damage complaints unsubstantiated. Its own certifying committee already measured a real, if smaller, loss from the very same fuel.
July 4, 2026
Business
India's Small-Town Flight Scheme Has Already Grounded Half Its Routes
India just extended UDAN, its regional flight subsidy, for ten more years at Rs 28,840 crore. Its own numbers show nearly half the routes launched since 2016 have already shut down, and the single biggest subsidy check went to the airline that already dominates the sky.
July 4, 2026
Business
India's Trade Deals Adopt Every WTO Digital Rule but One
India's newest free trade agreements copy most of the WTO's digital trade rulebook. Not one of them commits India to keep electronic transmissions duty free, the single clause its own trading partners already extend to each other.
July 3, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Anyone Within Fifteen Metres Can Turn Off a Delhi E-Rickshaw
A Bluetooth app let strangers stall e-rickshaws mid-shift for a laugh, and the government pulled it within a day. The unregistered fleet and unvetted batteries behind it are untouched.
July 4, 2026
Technology
India's AI Rules Are Being Written in Four Places at Once
A Supreme Court committee, a ministry, and two industry lobbies are each writing India's AI rules in 2026, without waiting for Parliament to pass a central law first.
July 3, 2026
Technology
India Has Already Blocked 83,668 WhatsApp Accounts Used for Fraud
MeitY ordered Meta to pause WhatsApp's global usernames rollout in India, warning it could fuel fraud and digital arrest scams. The reason sits in how deeply a phone number is wired into the country's banking and fraud defenses.
July 3, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Rural Telangana Men Now Drink and Smoke More Than the Cities
Rural Telangana's men now drink and smoke more than the men in its own cities. The disease hasn't caught up yet on paper, but the state already ties for India's worst kidney damage from it.
July 3, 2026
Health
A 40-50 Billion Rupee Industry Warning Kept Thiram Legal in India
India drafted a 2020 order restricting the fungicide Thiram. An industry warning about a market worth 40-50 billion rupees made sure the draft never became a rule.
July 3, 2026
Health
This Cancer Blood Test Flags 2,362 False Alarms For Every Real Case
Zydus and Apollo are bringing a blood test for colorectal cancer to India. Run its own published accuracy against how rare the disease actually is, and most of its positive results will not be cancer.
July 3, 2026