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India's Credit Card Delinquency Rate Is Falling Because the Risk Moved Elsewhere
Credit card delinquency, the number everyone watches for consumer stress, keeps improving. That is because the riskiest borrowers can no longer get a card at all, so they get a personal loan instead, and the loan book is absorbing the strain the card book used to show.
July 9, 2026
Business
Russia's Share of India's Oil Imports Hit a Record as the Discount Vanished
Russia's share of India's crude imports broke 50 percent in June, a record, just as the price discount that first justified the switch narrowed to almost nothing. A war that shut the Strait of Hormuz explains why.
July 9, 2026
Technology
The Spam-Free Number Series India Built Is Now Full of Spam
TRAI reserved the 1600 number series for government and BFSI callers and legally barred apps like Truecaller from flagging it as spam. Truecaller's own data says spam moved in anyway, and by law, nobody can tag it.
July 9, 2026
Business
India's Growth Forecast Implies an Inflation Rate Near 1 Percent
MoSPI's own FY26 growth arithmetic implies economy-wide prices rose by about one percentage point this year. Wholesale prices alone rose almost ten times that in May 2026.
July 9, 2026
Business
India's Gold Loan Boom Grew Slower Than the Price of the Gold Behind It
NBFC gold loans surged 69.9 percent in the RBI's May 2026 data. The metal backing them had already risen 81 percent in price, and a capital rule NBFCs never lost made gold their cheapest retail loan to write.
July 8, 2026
Geopolitics
How Close Must India's Submarines Sail to Strike
China just tested a submarine missile that can reach up to 10,000 kilometers. India's operational one reaches 750, forcing its boats close to shore to fire at all.
July 8, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Economy Uses 41 Percent Less Oil for Every Dollar of GDP Than in 1991
India's crude oil import dependency has climbed past 88 percent, the highest on record. But the economy now burns 41 percent less oil per dollar of GDP than in 1991, which is why the 2026 oil shock is landing differently than the one that broke the balance of payments three decades ago.
July 9, 2026
Business
India's Credit Card Delinquency Rate Is Falling Because the Risk Moved Elsewhere
Credit card delinquency, the number everyone watches for consumer stress, keeps improving. That is because the riskiest borrowers can no longer get a card at all, so they get a personal loan instead, and the loan book is absorbing the strain the card book used to show.
July 9, 2026
Business
Russia's Share of India's Oil Imports Hit a Record as the Discount Vanished
Russia's share of India's crude imports broke 50 percent in June, a record, just as the price discount that first justified the switch narrowed to almost nothing. A war that shut the Strait of Hormuz explains why.
July 9, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
The Spam-Free Number Series India Built Is Now Full of Spam
TRAI reserved the 1600 number series for government and BFSI callers and legally barred apps like Truecaller from flagging it as spam. Truecaller's own data says spam moved in anyway, and by law, nobody can tag it.
July 9, 2026
Technology
Samsung's Chip Profit Windfall Is Coming Out of Its Own Phone Business
Samsung just guided a record, 19-fold jump in quarterly profit on the AI-driven memory shortage. The same shortage is projected to cut its own phone division's profit by roughly 61 percent, and it is already squeezing which phones Indian buyers can afford.
July 7, 2026
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
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
India's C-Section Rate Is Rising Fastest Where Hospitals Get Paid Per Procedure
India's caesarean rate has nearly doubled the WHO's ceiling. The sharpest divide isn't between sick and healthy mothers, it's between hospitals paid per procedure and hospitals that aren't.
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
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