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Health
Why China Fined a Hospital So Little for a Child's Gene-Editing Death
A Chinese hospital paid a fine of about $3,500 after a 6-year-old patient died in an experimental $860,000 gene-editing trial. India's own stem-cell clinics operate under the same kind of unenforceable guidelines.
July 27, 2026
Health
India Is Gaining Years of Life, Not Years of Health
India's life expectancy keeps climbing. Its healthy life expectancy has not kept pace, and the gap between the two, already wider than the world average, is about to meet a population of the old that will more than double by 2050.
July 27, 2026
Business
India's Migrant Workers Send Home More Dollars Than Foreign Investors Bring In
Indians working abroad sent home an estimated $129 billion in 2024, the largest remittance inflow to any country and well ahead of what foreign investors put into India. Industrial policy still spends its subsidies chasing factories instead.
July 27, 2026
Technology
Nitin Gadkari Is Suing Meta and Google Instead of Using India's Own Takedown Rule
The Bombay High Court just let Nitin Gadkari sue Meta, Google and X directly over AI deepfakes from the E20 fuel backlash. His own government built a three-hour takedown rule for exactly this content five months earlier, and the lawsuit does not use it.
July 27, 2026
Business
India Sells China More Engineering Goods Even as the Trade Deficit Hits a Record
India's engineering goods exports to China grew nearly three and a half times faster than the sector overall in June, even as India's total trade deficit with China set a fresh record. The reversal is real, but it is still small.
July 27, 2026
Geopolitics
India Has One Medical Seat for Every 17 NEET Aspirants
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned days after a NEET paper leak set off weeks of street protest. The reform charter that ended the standoff fixes the leak's optics, not the seat math behind it.
July 26, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
India's Migrant Workers Send Home More Dollars Than Foreign Investors Bring In
Indians working abroad sent home an estimated $129 billion in 2024, the largest remittance inflow to any country and well ahead of what foreign investors put into India. Industrial policy still spends its subsidies chasing factories instead.
July 27, 2026
Business
India Sells China More Engineering Goods Even as the Trade Deficit Hits a Record
India's engineering goods exports to China grew nearly three and a half times faster than the sector overall in June, even as India's total trade deficit with China set a fresh record. The reversal is real, but it is still small.
July 27, 2026
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
Technology & Science
Technology
Nitin Gadkari Is Suing Meta and Google Instead of Using India's Own Takedown Rule
The Bombay High Court just let Nitin Gadkari sue Meta, Google and X directly over AI deepfakes from the E20 fuel backlash. His own government built a three-hour takedown rule for exactly this content five months earlier, and the lawsuit does not use it.
July 27, 2026
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
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Why China Fined a Hospital So Little for a Child's Gene-Editing Death
A Chinese hospital paid a fine of about $3,500 after a 6-year-old patient died in an experimental $860,000 gene-editing trial. India's own stem-cell clinics operate under the same kind of unenforceable guidelines.
July 27, 2026
Health
India Is Gaining Years of Life, Not Years of Health
India's life expectancy keeps climbing. Its healthy life expectancy has not kept pace, and the gap between the two, already wider than the world average, is about to meet a population of the old that will more than double by 2050.
July 27, 2026
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