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India's Rupee Trade With Russia Leaves Moscow Holding Money It Cannot Spend
Russian oil's share of India's imports hit a two-year high in May 2026, cast as proof rupee trade with Russia works. The rupees Russia earns are hard to spend, and Washington just showed it can reopen the tariff question at will.
July 26, 2026
Business
Why 1.53 Percent of India's Withdrawn ₹2,000 Notes Have Not Returned
RBI says 98.47% of India's withdrawn ₹2,000 notes have returned after three years, a mark that 2016's demonetisation cleared faster and more completely. The difference is that the ₹2,000 note never stopped being legal tender.
July 26, 2026
Business
Apple Wants Chips From the Chinese Firms Washington Blacklisted
Apple wants memory chips from the Chinese makers Washington restricted, to escape an AI-driven shortage that is enriching Micron. The exception it is asking for tests how fixed that wall really is.
July 26, 2026
Business
A Paper Leak, Not a Budget Cut, Cost India's Education Minister His Job
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as education minister citing an exam scandal, not a funding shortfall. The Union budget for his own ministry is already at a record this year, months after a mid-year cut that drew no protest at all.
July 26, 2026
Geopolitics
India's Fix for Paper Leaks Is a Court System Already Drowning in Its Own Cases
After a leaked exam paper forced India to cancel and rerun NEET-UG 2026, the government is routing prosecutions to its Fast Track Special Courts. Those courts already have 2,44,479 cases pending and cleared fewer than half of what they registered in 2025.
July 25, 2026
Markets
India's New Crypto Self-Regulator Cannot Reach the Traders It Was Built For
A parliamentary panel wants crypto exchanges to police themselves, weeks after the RBI told the same committee virtual digital assets should not be legalised at all. Both proposals arrive years after India's own tax regime pushed most trading beyond either body's reach.
July 25, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Rupee Trade With Russia Leaves Moscow Holding Money It Cannot Spend
Russian oil's share of India's imports hit a two-year high in May 2026, cast as proof rupee trade with Russia works. The rupees Russia earns are hard to spend, and Washington just showed it can reopen the tariff question at will.
July 26, 2026
Business
Why 1.53 Percent of India's Withdrawn ₹2,000 Notes Have Not Returned
RBI says 98.47% of India's withdrawn ₹2,000 notes have returned after three years, a mark that 2016's demonetisation cleared faster and more completely. The difference is that the ₹2,000 note never stopped being legal tender.
July 26, 2026
Business
Apple Wants Chips From the Chinese Firms Washington Blacklisted
Apple wants memory chips from the Chinese makers Washington restricted, to escape an AI-driven shortage that is enriching Micron. The exception it is asking for tests how fixed that wall really is.
July 26, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India Answered the AI Copyright Question the US Courts Still Haven't
The Delhi High Court just ruled that training ChatGPT on a newswire's content is fair dealing, weighing 100 million weekly Indian users against one publisher's claim. The US and Canada haven't gotten this far.
July 24, 2026
Technology
AMD's Two Chip Deals Now Nearly Match India's Entire Data Centre Pipeline
AMD's two AI chip deals commit up to 8 GW of capacity between them, just short of India's entire 8.33 GW data centre pipeline. The binding constraint was never capital.
July 23, 2026
Technology
India's Child Consent Rule Is Stricter Than France's Ban, and Still Not Enforceable
France just banned social media for anyone under 15, the first such law in the EU. India's own privacy law already sets a stricter bar, verifiable parental consent for any child under 18, but the rule that would enforce it does not bind a single platform until 2027.
July 23, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
How Fixing Child Malnutrition Is Fueling India's Diabetes Epidemic
The Indian states that cut child stunting fastest over the last five years are now posting the steepest rises in adult obesity and diabetes. A well-documented biological mechanism explains why the two trends are connected, not coincidental.
July 24, 2026
Health
India Approved a Dengue Vaccine Without the Safety Screen the Last One Needed
India's drug regulator cleared Takeda's Qdenga for anyone aged 4 to 60, with no test for whether they had dengue before. Qdenga's own trial data show that history is exactly what its protection depends on.
July 21, 2026
Health
Only 12 Percent of India's Brain Clot Patients Carry a Genetic Cause
A new ICMR hospital registry finds anaemia and alcohol use, not inherited clotting disorders, are the leading risk factors behind India's brain clots. Genetic causes showed up in only one in eight patients tested.
July 20, 2026