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The Real Constraint on India's AI Buildout Is the Grid, Not the Chip
India's AI investment boom is being sold as a race for chips. The real constraint is grid power, and in states like Maharashtra, the water needed to cool it.
July 13, 2026
Business
Why India's Sailors Still Face a War Its Oil Trade Has Mostly Escaped
India has rerouted roughly 70% of its crude imports away from the Strait of Hormuz. Its sailors, about one in eight of the world's seafaring workforce, are still crewing ships through the war zone regardless of whose cargo is on board.
July 12, 2026
Science
A Light Monsoon Day Can Lose Four-Fifths of Its Rain to Dry Air
Scientists have finally measured how much of India's monsoon rain evaporates in midair rather than landing. On the driest days, drier air can erase most of the rain that a cloud actually produced.
July 12, 2026
Business
Most of India's Crude Oil No Longer Sails Through Hormuz
India's oil supply has been leaving the Gulf for years. By June 2026, Russia alone supplied more of India's crude than the entire Middle East did three years earlier.
July 12, 2026
Business
HDFC Bank Shed 3,343 Jobs Even as Its Loan Book Kept Growing
HDFC Bank's branches, loan book and profit all grew in the year to March 2026. Its headcount fell, for the first time in five years of disclosed filings.
July 12, 2026
Geopolitics
Private Firms' Share of India's Defence Exports Is Nearly Double Their Share of Output
India's private defence firms now supply 45 percent of the country's arms exports, nearly double their 24 percent share of total output. That gap says the missile sector is opening to fill an order book abroad, not a shortfall at home.
July 12, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Why India's Sailors Still Face a War Its Oil Trade Has Mostly Escaped
India has rerouted roughly 70% of its crude imports away from the Strait of Hormuz. Its sailors, about one in eight of the world's seafaring workforce, are still crewing ships through the war zone regardless of whose cargo is on board.
July 12, 2026
Business
Most of India's Crude Oil No Longer Sails Through Hormuz
India's oil supply has been leaving the Gulf for years. By June 2026, Russia alone supplied more of India's crude than the entire Middle East did three years earlier.
July 12, 2026
Business
HDFC Bank Shed 3,343 Jobs Even as Its Loan Book Kept Growing
HDFC Bank's branches, loan book and profit all grew in the year to March 2026. Its headcount fell, for the first time in five years of disclosed filings.
July 12, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
The Real Constraint on India's AI Buildout Is the Grid, Not the Chip
India's AI investment boom is being sold as a race for chips. The real constraint is grid power, and in states like Maharashtra, the water needed to cool it.
July 13, 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
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
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
A Single Day of Extreme Heat Nearly Equals Five Years of India's Official Heat Deaths
Europe's 2026 heatwave produced a precise, fast death toll in France, Belgium and the UK. India's own scientists estimate a single extreme day kills nearly as many people as five years of the government's official count.
July 13, 2026
Health
Late Diagnosis, Not Rising Risk, Explains India's Cancer Survival Gap
India's cancer burden is not spiraling out of proportion to the world's. Its survival odds are, and the gap traces to when patients are found and how much treatment reaches them.
July 11, 2026
Health
This Cancer Blood Test Flags 2,362 False Alarms For Every Real Case
Zydus and Apollo are bringing a blood test for colorectal cancer to India. Run its own published accuracy against how rare the disease actually is, and most of its positive results will not be cancer.
July 3, 2026