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Haryana Pays Every Eligible Woman in a Family, Delhi Pays Only the Eldest
Delhi's new Lakshmi Yojana borrows Madhya Pradesh's exact income cutoff for its cash transfer to women, then adds two eligibility rules that neither Madhya Pradesh nor Haryana's comparable scheme carries.
July 29, 2026
Markets
SEBI Bars Brokers From Finfluencers, Not Finfluencers From Giving Advice
A 2024 rule stops brokers from working with unregistered stock tipsters, not the tipsters from giving advice. Only 6 percent of India's finfluencers are SEBI-registered, and the licensed-adviser pool meant to fill the gap is still smaller than it was in 2020.
July 29, 2026
Business
Airtel and Fino Turned a Profit While Paytm's Payments Bank Was Wound Up
The Delhi High Court has wound up Paytm's banking arm on the RBI's petition. Of the original eleven payments banks the regulator licensed in 2015, only two, Airtel and Fino, have a confirmed profit to show for it.
July 29, 2026
Business
The Rs 100 Crore Club Is Growing Nearly Four Times Faster Than India's GDP
A record 576 Indians declared gross income above Rs 100 crore in Assessment Year 2025-26, a headcount growing nearly four times faster than the economy that produced it, and far faster than the tax take it fed.
July 29, 2026
Business
Why India's AI Data Centres Need More Than Renewables Promise
The government's estimate for AI data-centre power demand nearly doubled within months, to 26.3 gigawatts by 2032. Meeting that load with renewables that clear a regulatory floor of 21 to 35 percent capacity utilisation is a very different problem than meeting it on paper.
July 29, 2026
Business
Bank of Baroda's Breach Puts India's Data Penalty Law to the Test
Bank of Baroda traces its data leak to one compromised employee email account. The real test is whether that counts as failing India's law on reasonable security safeguards.
July 28, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Why Private Banks Fine Account Holders Twice as Hard as Public Banks
Private lenders collected Rs 4,949 crore in FY26 minimum-balance penalties, more than double what public sector banks collected. The rule that permits that gap sets no ceiling on it at all.
July 29, 2026
Business
Haryana Pays Every Eligible Woman in a Family, Delhi Pays Only the Eldest
Delhi's new Lakshmi Yojana borrows Madhya Pradesh's exact income cutoff for its cash transfer to women, then adds two eligibility rules that neither Madhya Pradesh nor Haryana's comparable scheme carries.
July 29, 2026
Business
Airtel and Fino Turned a Profit While Paytm's Payments Bank Was Wound Up
The Delhi High Court has wound up Paytm's banking arm on the RBI's petition. Of the original eleven payments banks the regulator licensed in 2015, only two, Airtel and Fino, have a confirmed profit to show for it.
July 29, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Why a Leaked Claude Chat Could Cost an Indian Company, Not Anthropic
Google had indexed fewer than 600 shared Claude conversations before the pages came down this week. Under India's new breach rules, the penalty for one of them may fall on the Indian company that used Claude, not on Anthropic.
July 28, 2026
Technology
Nitin Gadkari Is Suing Meta and Google Instead of Using India's Own Takedown Rule
The Bombay High Court just let Nitin Gadkari sue Meta, Google and X directly over AI deepfakes from the E20 fuel backlash. His own government built a three-hour takedown rule for exactly this content five months earlier, and the lawsuit does not use it.
July 27, 2026
Technology
India Answered the AI Copyright Question the US Courts Still Haven't
The Delhi High Court just ruled that training ChatGPT on a newswire's content is fair dealing, weighing 100 million weekly Indian users against one publisher's claim. The US and Canada haven't gotten this far.
July 24, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
India's Smaller Districts Are Out-Vaccinating Its Big Cities on HPV Shots
Karnal, a mid-sized Haryana district, has vaccinated five times the share of its HPV target that Faridabad and Ludhiana have managed. The pattern holds across two states, and it complicates the story India tells about the rollout.
July 28, 2026
Health
Why China Fined a Hospital So Little for a Child's Gene-Editing Death
A Chinese hospital paid a fine of about $3,500 after a 6-year-old patient died in an experimental $860,000 gene-editing trial. India's own stem-cell clinics operate under the same kind of unenforceable guidelines.
July 27, 2026
Health
India Is Gaining Years of Life, Not Years of Health
India's life expectancy keeps climbing. Its healthy life expectancy has not kept pace, and the gap between the two, already wider than the world average, is about to meet a population of the old that will more than double by 2050.
July 27, 2026