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Technology
RatHat Steals Bank PINs Without Ever Touching the OTP
A new Android banking trojan reads PINs straight off the screen using the accessibility tool built for blind users. India's OTP defense never even sees it.
September 22, 2026
Business
RBI Is Asking ICICI's Own CEO to Vet HDFC Bank's Next Chief
HDFC Bank's board picked its next CEO on September 12. Before the choice is final, RBI wants the boss of its closest rival, ICICI Bank, to weigh in on the pick.
September 22, 2026
Geopolitics
Trump Approved More Taiwan Arms in a Year Than Biden Did in Four
Xi will ask Trump to freeze a $14 billion Taiwan arms sale by invoking a 1982 pledge to wind such sales down. Washington has never kept that promise, and the numbers show it moving the other way.
September 22, 2026
Markets
Institutions Bid NSE's IPO Nine Times Harder Than Retail Did
NSE's IPO closed 5.69 times oversubscribed, a number that reads like conviction. Split it by investor class and institutions bid 12.68 times their quota while retail barely covered its own.
September 22, 2026
Business
SpiceJet's Staff Went Unpaid for 3.5 Months Before DGCA Made It Formal
The DGCA has run this exact oversight on SpiceJet before and quietly stood down. This time the airline has gone 3.5 months without paying staff, and the market share it is losing is going almost entirely to one rival.
September 22, 2026
Technology
India's Semiconductor Success Turned It Into a Sabotage Target
ASML confirmed it has started operating in India the same week its minister warned the chip industry to brace for cyberattacks. The mission's success, not despite it, is what created the target.
September 21, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
RBI Is Asking ICICI's Own CEO to Vet HDFC Bank's Next Chief
HDFC Bank's board picked its next CEO on September 12. Before the choice is final, RBI wants the boss of its closest rival, ICICI Bank, to weigh in on the pick.
September 22, 2026
Business
SpiceJet's Staff Went Unpaid for 3.5 Months Before DGCA Made It Formal
The DGCA has run this exact oversight on SpiceJet before and quietly stood down. This time the airline has gone 3.5 months without paying staff, and the market share it is losing is going almost entirely to one rival.
September 22, 2026
Business
The Doklam Standoff Reached Mumbai Through a Bank, Not a Border
China's largest bank rationed $185 million in Mumbai lending during the 2017 Doklam standoff, acting without any order from either government.
September 21, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
RatHat Steals Bank PINs Without Ever Touching the OTP
A new Android banking trojan reads PINs straight off the screen using the accessibility tool built for blind users. India's OTP defense never even sees it.
September 22, 2026
Technology
India's Semiconductor Success Turned It Into a Sabotage Target
ASML confirmed it has started operating in India the same week its minister warned the chip industry to brace for cyberattacks. The mission's success, not despite it, is what created the target.
September 21, 2026
Technology
The Lawsuit That Says AI Labs Colluded by Trying to Be Safe
Four subscribers say Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google's joint safety pledge was an illegal slowdown pact. The case lands in a regulatory vacuum antitrust law never filled.
September 20, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
Fiji Declared an HIV Emergency Months After India's Largest Drug Gift
India just sent Fiji its largest-ever medicine gift for HIV. Ten months later Fiji declared a national emergency anyway, because the epidemic runs on needles, not on drug shortages.
September 18, 2026
Health
Blood Pressure Risk in Indian Women Triples Years Before Menopause
By their early thirties, Indian women's odds of raised blood pressure have already tripled. The average Indian woman does not reach menopause for another decade or more, and much of clinical practice still waits for her to get there.
September 17, 2026
Health
India's 58,000 Snakebite Deaths Are Not an Antivenom Problem
A nanobody antivenom from IISc Bengaluru and DTU protects mice against India's deadliest cobras. India's 58,000 annual snakebite deaths trace mostly to a health system that cannot get any antivenom to a patient in time.
September 16, 2026