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HDFC Bank Fined Its Executives Rs 1 Lakh Each For A Rs 45 Crore Scheme
HDFC Bank's board fined its own CEO, CFO and retail chief Rs 1 lakh each over a Rs 45 crore scheme it called business overreach. Days after the US let Gautam Adani's bribery case go, an investor sued HDFC Bank in New York.
August 27, 2026
Business
More Indians Are Crossing a Disclosure Line That Never Moved
FAST-DS caps its full tax amnesty at a fixed Rs 1 crore of undisclosed foreign assets. The rupee has kept sliding since, so the same rupee line now closes in on fewer dollars than it did two years ago.
August 27, 2026
Geopolitics
One Family Ran Both Sides of a Rs 9 Crore Army Bid
Four separately registered companies won 18 of 33 Army tenders for bunker equipment by bidding against each other. Their own filings show they answer to one family.
August 27, 2026
Health
The Pancreatic Cancer Drug That Doubles Survival Costs 173 Times India's Income
Daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival in advanced pancreatic cancer and just cleared the FDA at $477,600 a year. In India, that is 173 times the average income, and most patients are diagnosed too late for it to matter anyway.
August 27, 2026
Business
India's $200 Billion Data Centre Pledge Is Nearly 32 Times What the Build-Out Needs
Piyush Goyal cited $200 billion in hyperscaler pledges to justify exempting high-tech manufacturers from certification checks. India's own coal, semiconductor and incentive schemes show pledges this size rarely convert into delivered investment.
August 26, 2026
Business
Why India's ATMs Keep Disappearing as Currency Hits a Record High
RBI data show India's ATM count has fallen for three straight years, almost entirely because off-site machines are closing, even as currency in circulation hits a record high. The squeeze is landing hardest on Tier-2 and Tier-3 India.
August 26, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
HDFC Bank Fined Its Executives Rs 1 Lakh Each For A Rs 45 Crore Scheme
HDFC Bank's board fined its own CEO, CFO and retail chief Rs 1 lakh each over a Rs 45 crore scheme it called business overreach. Days after the US let Gautam Adani's bribery case go, an investor sued HDFC Bank in New York.
August 27, 2026
Business
More Indians Are Crossing a Disclosure Line That Never Moved
FAST-DS caps its full tax amnesty at a fixed Rs 1 crore of undisclosed foreign assets. The rupee has kept sliding since, so the same rupee line now closes in on fewer dollars than it did two years ago.
August 27, 2026
Business
India's $200 Billion Data Centre Pledge Is Nearly 32 Times What the Build-Out Needs
Piyush Goyal cited $200 billion in hyperscaler pledges to justify exempting high-tech manufacturers from certification checks. India's own coal, semiconductor and incentive schemes show pledges this size rarely convert into delivered investment.
August 26, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
India's SIM Cap Can't Reach Rings That Split Connections Across Many Buyers
A new circular blocks anyone who already holds nine connections from getting a tenth. A ring that spreads its SIMs across many separate buyers, each under the limit, never trips it.
August 21, 2026
Technology
India Regulates What Meta Posts, Not How Meta Is Built
A 29-state trial against Meta rests on product-liability law, not speech law, the same route once used against tobacco companies. India's IT Rules and DPDP Act can order a takedown or fine a data violation, but neither can reach the algorithm itself.
August 19, 2026
Technology
A Law Built for Case-by-Case Review Now Blocks Accounts by the Thousand
Section 69A requires a committee to individually judge each blocking order 'justifiable,' with reasons recorded in writing. In practice, one 2025 order blocked 2,355 accounts inside an hour, and the government has not published an annual count since 2022.
August 18, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
The Pancreatic Cancer Drug That Doubles Survival Costs 173 Times India's Income
Daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival in advanced pancreatic cancer and just cleared the FDA at $477,600 a year. In India, that is 173 times the average income, and most patients are diagnosed too late for it to matter anyway.
August 27, 2026
Health
PM2.5 Carries the Largest Cancer Risk of Any Studied Air Pollutant
A new global study puts PM2.5 ahead of nitrogen dioxide and ozone as the pollutant most linked to cancer. India's air runs more than ten times over the WHO's guideline for it, which is exactly where the larger number lands.
August 26, 2026
Health
South Asians Are Almost Absent From the Databases That Calibrate Global Medicine
South Asians are close to a quarter of humanity, but the genomic databases that build disease-risk scores and drug-dosing guidance include almost none of them. The gap already shows up in a heart drug that fails more often and a risk score that reads worse.
August 21, 2026