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The RBI Tenure Cap Does Not Explain HDFC Bank CEO's Exit
Sashidhar Jagdishan is retiring five months after HDFC Bank's chairman quit citing personal ethics, and nine years before the RBI's tenure cap would force him out. The bank's lending margin, not the regulator's clock, looks like the more likely story.
August 30, 2026
Business
Why Two Hing Brands Failed a Purity Test Already Set Below Pure Asafoetida
FSSAI just banned two hing brands for missing a purity floor that was already set well below pure asafoetida. The bigger story is why the floor sits that low to begin with.
August 30, 2026
Business
Jio's Profit Margin Is Rising as Its Market Share Falls
Airtel added more new mobile subscribers than Jio in July, narrowing Jio's market-share lead to 1.3 percentage points. Jio's own numbers hint at why it may not be fighting to keep it.
August 30, 2026
Business
A Glacier Collapse Has Nepal Turning to India for Electricity
A 2026 glacier-collapse flood knocked out about 360 MW of Nepal's hydropower, forcing a country that just posted a record power-export surplus to lean on India's spare grid margin instead.
August 30, 2026
Technology
China's Most Valuable Listed Firm Makes the Chip Washington Tried to Block
CXMT's stock market debut made it China's most valuable listed company, years after a US rule tried to keep it from fabricating advanced memory chips. India's flagship chip investment, by contrast, only assembles and tests memory made elsewhere.
August 30, 2026
Geopolitics
India's Nuclear Expansion Is Capped by a Law, Not by Uranium Supply
India just signed a long-term uranium deal with Uzbekistan. The number that actually gates its nuclear ambitions was never tonnes of ore. It was a liability law India quietly rewrote eight months earlier.
August 30, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Subhash Chandra's Creditors Are Set to Recover Just 0.03 Percent of What They Are Owed
An NCLT order lets Subhash Chandra settle Rs 22,006 crore in debt for Rs 6.5 crore. India's personal-guarantee insolvency cases were already recovering almost nothing before his.
August 31, 2026
Business
The RBI Tenure Cap Does Not Explain HDFC Bank CEO's Exit
Sashidhar Jagdishan is retiring five months after HDFC Bank's chairman quit citing personal ethics, and nine years before the RBI's tenure cap would force him out. The bank's lending margin, not the regulator's clock, looks like the more likely story.
August 30, 2026
Business
Why Two Hing Brands Failed a Purity Test Already Set Below Pure Asafoetida
FSSAI just banned two hing brands for missing a purity floor that was already set well below pure asafoetida. The bigger story is why the floor sits that low to begin with.
August 30, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
China's Most Valuable Listed Firm Makes the Chip Washington Tried to Block
CXMT's stock market debut made it China's most valuable listed company, years after a US rule tried to keep it from fabricating advanced memory chips. India's flagship chip investment, by contrast, only assembles and tests memory made elsewhere.
August 30, 2026
Technology
ChatGPT Ads Reach India Three Days After Europe, Before Its Privacy Rules Bind
OpenAI turned on ChatGPT ads in India on August 27, three days after the same feature launched across Europe under a GDPR consent rule. India will not have an equivalent operative rule until mid-2027.
August 28, 2026
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
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