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Geopolitics

India's Record Defense Budget Says It Does Not Trust China's Troop Cuts

The Ministry of Defence's own review confirms the Chinese pullback along the Line of Actual Control was real. Delhi's defense budget, capital spend and border-road outlay all hit records in the same year.

September 14, 2026

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Geopolitics

One in Every 250 Young Men in Punjab and Delhi Is in Prison

Data For India's analysis of NCRB and Census figures puts the incarceration rate for young men in Punjab and Delhi at nearly ten times the national average. Most of the people locked up have not been convicted of anything, and the pattern looks less like crime than court delay.

September 14, 2026

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Business

India's Wholesale Prices Are Rising Twice as Fast as What Shoppers Pay

Wholesale prices climbed 9.92 percent in August, almost exactly double the 4.82 percent shoppers actually paid at the till. The gap has held near two to one for two straight months, producers absorbing it, not consumers.

September 14, 2026

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Business

RBI's Account Freeze Fix Also Hands Money Mules a Deadline

RBI's draft rules end indefinite account freezes by capping a bank's hold at 60 days and limiting it to the disputed amount. The same fixed clock tells a money-mule network exactly when its account comes back online, and RBI issued the fix ten days after its own court deadline lapsed.

September 14, 2026

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Business

RBI Rejected Tata Sons' Bid to Escape Being Listed

Tata Sons spent two and a half years trying to surrender its NBFC licence and escape a mandatory stock listing altogether. RBI just closed that door for good.

September 13, 2026

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Health

The Ebola Vaccine That Worked in 2020 Was Never Tested Against This Virus

DRC's current outbreak is a different Ebola species than the one the proven ring-vaccination vaccine was built for, and WHO has restricted that vaccine to research use only. India already holds 620,000 doses of a substitute still waiting on trial data.

September 13, 2026

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