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Health
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh Are Dying From a Disease a Cheap Test Could Catch
A Lancet series warns the world about undiagnosed kidney disease. Andhra Pradesh's Uddanam farm belt already lived through it, and India built a system that treats kidney failure, not the disease that causes it.
July 16, 2026
Health
Serum Institute Stockpiled 620,000 Doses for a Disease India Has Never Had
The Serum Institute of India built an Ebola vaccine stockpile in two weeks flat. India has never recorded a single case of the disease it protects against.
July 16, 2026
Business
Why India's Current Account Surplus Did Not Survive May
RBI's headline print shows a two-month current account surplus, but May 2026 alone was already back in deficit, and the merchandise trade gap has widened in every window measured since. The financing cushion built to absorb it is thinner than it was three years ago.
July 16, 2026
Science
ISRO Is Tightening Exit Rules Instead of Raising Pay to Stop Its Scientists From Leaving
The Department of Space's fix for a wave of Gaganyaan resignations is a memo that makes leaving harder, not a raise that makes staying worth more.
July 16, 2026
Business
India Kept Its Rare Earths in the Ground and Bought Magnets From China
India holds millions of tonnes of an internationally significant rare earth resource and still leaned on China for up to 90 percent of its magnet imports. Beijing's export curbs are now testing what that choice costs.
July 16, 2026
Business
HP Rigged the Government Marketplace Built to Stop Bid-Rigging
CCI fined HP India Rs 138.85 crore for rigging bids on GeM, the marketplace it partnered with CCI to keep clean. The case came to light only because HP turned on itself.
July 15, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Why India's Current Account Surplus Did Not Survive May
RBI's headline print shows a two-month current account surplus, but May 2026 alone was already back in deficit, and the merchandise trade gap has widened in every window measured since. The financing cushion built to absorb it is thinner than it was three years ago.
July 16, 2026
Business
India Kept Its Rare Earths in the Ground and Bought Magnets From China
India holds millions of tonnes of an internationally significant rare earth resource and still leaned on China for up to 90 percent of its magnet imports. Beijing's export curbs are now testing what that choice costs.
July 16, 2026
Business
HP Rigged the Government Marketplace Built to Stop Bid-Rigging
CCI fined HP India Rs 138.85 crore for rigging bids on GeM, the marketplace it partnered with CCI to keep clean. The case came to light only because HP turned on itself.
July 15, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
RBI Wants Banks to Own the Data Risks They Outsourced to Third Parties
RBI's new draft rules make banks name a senior officer who owns their data end to end, even when a fintech, BaaS platform or NBFC partner actually produced it.
July 16, 2026
Technology
India's Largest Nuclear Plant Leaked Files From a Vendor, Not the Reactor
A hacking group's dark-web dump tied to India's largest nuclear plant traces back to a vendor's data centre, not NPCIL's own network, the same wall a 2019 breach stopped at.
July 15, 2026
Technology
India's Bank Regulator Is Patching Customers, Not the Network
A government-backed threat report got six of its seven cyberattack predictions right this year. RBI's new fraud rules respond by compensating victims faster, not by touching the vendor dependency its own survey calls the second-biggest risk.
July 14, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh Are Dying From a Disease a Cheap Test Could Catch
A Lancet series warns the world about undiagnosed kidney disease. Andhra Pradesh's Uddanam farm belt already lived through it, and India built a system that treats kidney failure, not the disease that causes it.
July 16, 2026
Health
Serum Institute Stockpiled 620,000 Doses for a Disease India Has Never Had
The Serum Institute of India built an Ebola vaccine stockpile in two weeks flat. India has never recorded a single case of the disease it protects against.
July 16, 2026
Health
Chandipura Virus Kills Children Faster Than India Can Test For It
Gujarat has confirmed just 7 of 27 tested Chandipura cases, with 8 results still pending days later. The same lab bottleneck undercounted the 2024 outbreak, and there is still no vaccine to fall back on.
July 15, 2026