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Business
TCS Gains 4,500 Jobs in Germany as Headcount Falls 23,460 at Home
TCS is buying Porsche's AI-savvy consulting arm for 320 million euros and 4,500 employees, a workforce smaller than the headcount it shed at home in a single year.
August 25, 2026
Business
India Inc's Sales Hit a Three-Year High While Two of Three Sectors Lost Margin
India's listed companies grew sales at the fastest pace in three years in 2025-26. Manufacturing and non-IT services margins fell anyway, and only IT's improved.
August 25, 2026
Markets
Loss-Making FACT Is Now Worth More Than Profitable Coromandel
A government fertiliser company that lost money last quarter is now worth more, share for share, than the profitable private-sector rival next to it. The market is pricing something other than earnings.
August 25, 2026
Geopolitics
Karnataka's Voter Roll Purge Trusts a Neighbor Over a Document
Karnataka's SIR draft roll flagged 45 percent of Greater Bengaluru's voters for review. The rule that decides who stays was never about a document, it was about whether the booth officer's knock got answered.
August 25, 2026
Business
India Closed the Bank Account Gap for Women but Not the Banking Skills Gap
A new ILO-NCAER brief shows Indian women's bank accounts have nearly caught up with men's. The skills to use those accounts online, and the capital to buy into a gig platform, have not.
August 25, 2026
Business
India's Manufacturing Base Is Shifting States, Not Vanishing
Manufacturing's share of Maharashtra's economy has shrunk by nearly a third since 2011-12, while in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu it is the fastest-growing sector in the state. The central government's own incentive scheme cannot say which state its money actually built.
August 24, 2026
Business & Markets
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
TCS Gains 4,500 Jobs in Germany as Headcount Falls 23,460 at Home
TCS is buying Porsche's AI-savvy consulting arm for 320 million euros and 4,500 employees, a workforce smaller than the headcount it shed at home in a single year.
August 25, 2026
Business
India Inc's Sales Hit a Three-Year High While Two of Three Sectors Lost Margin
India's listed companies grew sales at the fastest pace in three years in 2025-26. Manufacturing and non-IT services margins fell anyway, and only IT's improved.
August 25, 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
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
Health
India Has No National Flu Vaccine Plan, So H1N1 Comes Back Every Year
Delhi's H1N1 cases are up sixfold this year, and an unreported death in Indore has triggered a state probe. Both trace back to a program that has never existed: India offers no subsidized flu vaccine to anyone.
August 21, 2026
Health
Congo's Worst Ebola Outbreak Ever Has No Vaccine Behind It
The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak just became the deadliest ever recorded there. The virus behind it has never had a licensed vaccine, and the fastest candidate in testing is still months from proving it works.
August 17, 2026