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Healthcare · Policy · 31 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Sun Pharma's ILUMYA Is Approved For Psoriatic Arthritis, And Can Only Be Given In A Clinic

The approval rests on INSPIRE-1 and INSPIRE-2. The announcement did not publish the efficacy numbers from either.
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AI · Policy · 28 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Microsoft Has Offered A Quarter Of Its Staff The Door And Left The Data Centres Out

Xbox, Windows, Copilot and Finance are in. Data centres are out. India is included for the first time.
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Manufacturing · Policy · 21 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Apple India Crossed ₹1 Lakh Crore And Paid Cupertino Nearly Twice What It Kept

Revenue grew 31 per cent. The royalty paid to Cupertino grew 144 per cent, to nearly twice what the Indian entity kept.
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AI · Policy · 21 Oct 2026 · 4 min

China Ordered $35 Billion Of Nvidia Cards And Nvidia Says It Can Fill A Tenth

Six million units ordered against three million of capacity. Nvidia has told partners they may get a tenth of what they asked for.
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AI · Policy · 20 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Britain Promised Its Largest AI Data Centre And Could Not Find It Any Electricity

Power at the Loughton site was due this year. The grid now says the 2030s. The project was announced at a state visit thirteen months ago.
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Policy · AI · 18 Oct 2026 · 5 min

China Has Put Its Solar And AI Know-How Behind A Licence, And The Clock Started On Day One

The consultation runs to 15 November. The registration requirement started the day it was published, and catches deals already in progress.
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Fintech · Policy · 14 Oct 2026 · 4 min

NPCI Has Deferred The UPI Charge Two Days Before It Was Due To Start

Two days before the start, with no new date. Everything built against 15 October now waits for a notification.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 14 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Infosys Says AI Could Be Half Its Work In Three Years, And Warns The Backlash Is Coming Here

The warning is sharper than the forecast. He said the Western data centre backlash may reach India, which almost nobody here is planning for.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 12 Oct 2026 · 4 min

India Spent A Year Saying It Would Not Regulate AI, And Is Now Writing The Paper

A year ago MeitY declined to propose an AI law. The minister now calls the coming paper the base for regulation that has to come.
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Policy · Markets & IPO · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The US Takes 97% Of India's Solar Module Exports, And Delhi Is Looking For A Plan B

A 126 per cent duty is a price problem. Export credit solves financing problems, which is not the same thing.
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Fintech · Policy · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Brokers Say IRDAI's Overhaul Could Cost Them 70% Of Revenue

IRDAI's own data shows broker commissions rose 173 per cent between FY23 and FY25 while premiums they sourced rose 37.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Amazon Has Stopped Making Councils Sign NDAs Before It Builds A Data Centre

Seventy-five projects worth $130 billion were blocked or delayed in one quarter. The secrecy that was supposed to smooth approvals was costing more than it saved.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 9 Oct 2026 · 4 min

HCL Is Spending ₹500 Crore To Add 4,500 Seats In Lucknow

The expansion was announced two days before the US suspended HCL from PERM. Unconnected events, pointing the same way.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 9 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The US Has Suspended TCS, Infosys, Wipro And HCL From Its Green Card Programme

No H-1B visa has been cancelled. What has been suspended is the path to permanent residency, which is a retention problem rather than an operational one.
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Banking & Finance · Policy · 7 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The RBI Has Raised Rates For The First Time Since February 2023

Neutral became calibrated tightening, which is the part that changes planning. The next move is a hike or a pause, not a cut.
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Policy · Funding · 6 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The Cabinet Has Cleared A ₹10,000 Crore Fund That Buys Equity In SMEs

Equity, not credit, which is the point and also the difficulty. Indian SMEs have spent decades preferring loans precisely because loans do not dilute.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 5 Oct 2026 · 4 min

OpenAI Scrapped A Model For Overstepping, Then Launched Always-On Agents A Day Later

The two decisions are not in conflict, and read together they show where the industry thinks the risk sits, and where it does not.
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Policy · 3 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Reliance Has Announced ₹1 Trillion For Andhra Biogas, Without A Timeline

The hard part of compressed biogas is collecting feedstock from thousands of villages, not building plants. That is where the detail is missing.
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Founders · Policy · 3 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Chandrasekaran's Family Firm Has TVS Deals The Tata Sons Board Was Not Told About

Hanno is not a related party of TVS under Indian law. The question is the Tata Code of Conduct, which the group wrote to set a higher bar than the statute.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 2 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Google Has Put Four AI Chips In Orbit To Find Out If They Survive

The chips run in 15-minute bursts. Google's own paper puts the launch economics at 1,800 Starship flights before any of this competes with a building.
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Fintech · Policy · 2 Oct 2026 · 4 min

UPI Processed 24.07 Billion Transactions In September, Two Weeks Before It Starts Charging

The monthly decline is a calendar artefact. Daily volumes rose, and this is the last clean month before MDR starts on 15 October.
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Policy · Fintech · 30 Sept 2026 · 4 min

IRDAI's Public Insurance Registry Consultation Closes Today

It is the quieter of IRDAI's two open consultations, and for distribution businesses it may be the more consequential one.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

TakeMe2Space Will Fly Two Orbital Data Centre Satellites On A Falcon 9 In 2028

Two satellites at 1.5 kilowatts each will not replace a data centre. What they could replace is the ground station.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The ED Has Attached ₹442 Crore More In The Gameskraft Case, Taking The Total To ₹2,843 Crore

The attached property sits with family members and private trusts rather than the company. That reflects the shape of what the agency alleges.
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Fintech · Policy · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The Supreme Court Won't Stay The UPI MDR Rollout, But Wants To Know What The Charge Is

The court let the 15 October date stand but asked the government to explain, on affidavit, what the charge legally is.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 27 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The Government Asked Tata Whether Its $14 Billion Chip Plans Survive The Boardroom Fight

The fab's schedule does not depend on who chairs Tata Sons. It depends on whether Tata Sons can keep funding it, which is what the dispute is partly about.
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Fintech · Policy · 25 Sept 2026 · 4 min

IRDAI Has Proposed Capping Insurance Commissions, And PB Fintech Fell 36%

Expense caps free up money for insurers while capping what distributors can earn. ICICI Lombard rose 5 per cent on the same day Turtlemint hit its floor.
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Fintech · Policy · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

PayGlocal Has IFSCA Approval For A GIFT City Payments Subsidiary

It already holds an RBI cross-border aggregator licence and a US FinCEN registration. The GIFT City unit makes three regulated jurisdictions.
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Adani Group Durga Puja Grant
Policy · Spotlight · 23 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Adani Puts ₹2 Crore Into Durga Puja, Aimed at the Artists Rather Than the Banners

Eight committees will receive ₹25 lakh each, with a preview tour from 10 to 12 October. The money is aimed at the making rather than the visibility.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 21 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Fujifilm Will Invest ₹800 Crore In A Chip Materials Plant Beside Tata's Dholera Fab

A fab cannot run on imported chemicals indefinitely. The plant is phased, with the first stage due in 2028, and Fujifilm will train Indian chemical suppliers alongside.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 17 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Scotland Now Requires Environmental Assessment For Every Data Centre Above 50MW

Assessing applications one by one will not answer whether the country has generation for all of them, which is what the moratorium campaign is actually asking.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 17 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The EU Wants Under-15s Off Social Media And AI Chatbots

Age verification would apply to everyone, since a platform cannot confirm a user is over 15 without checking. Platforms would also fund the regulator supervising them.
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Healthcare · Policy · 16 Sept 2026 · 5 min

A ₹11 IV Set Billed At ₹325 Lands On Someone's Health Insurance Claim

The markups are the contested line in Indian health claims. Insurers have the data to see them and have lacked the regulatory basis to refuse them.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 14 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Four Indian Startups Join Google DeepMind's First AI For The Planet Cohort

Three of the four sell verified environmental outcomes rather than software. The AI is there to make the claim auditable.
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Beijan Founders
Funding · Policy · 12 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Beijan's Founders Are Still in College. Its Software Is Already With Southern Command.

Both founders are still at BITS Pilani. Their swarm ground station software is already running with Indian Army formations, and eight military units have issued letters of intent.
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QNU Founders
Funding · Policy · 9 Sept 2026 · 6 min

QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Crore, More Than Its Entire First Decade Combined

This single round is larger than everything QNu raised in its first decade. Its largest backer also sets the 2029 deadline that creates its market.
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PM Modi KRAFTON Chairman Byung Gyu
Funding · Policy · 6 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Krafton Pledges Another $250M to India, Which Has Banned Its Flagship Game Twice

The new money targets AI, robotics and deep tech rather than games. Delhi switched off PUBG Mobile in 2020 and BGMI in 2022.
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TCS CEO
SaaS & Tech · Policy · 5 Sept 2026 · 5 min

TCS Plans a 1 GW AI Campus in Hyderabad, Roughly India's Entire Existing Capacity

HyperVault has 264 acres and a ₹70,000 crore figure. It also has about ₹18,000 crore actually committed, and a build phased against customers who do not yet exist.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Meta Will Cap Teen Use At Two Hours A Day Under An $18 Billion Settlement

The deal blocks the apps overnight, hides likes on teen accounts and bans cosmetic filters. About $5.3 billion of it is contingent on TikTok and YouTube matching.
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E-commerce · Policy · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Maharashtra FDA Suspends Blinkit's Akola Licence After Re-Inspection Found Faults Unfixed

A 12 August inspection produced an improvement notice. Blink Commerce filed a compliance report. The re-inspection found the problems still there.
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