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The proposal, reported on 5 October, would temporarily restrict smart glasses and other AI-enabled visual devices in settings where recording others is hardest to police — schools, healthcare, parks and beaches.
The court's new term opened with a bid by major oil and gas companies to head off lawsuits that hold them liable for climate harm. The legal question underneath is older and larger than one case: can a court order a polluter to pay for damage that is decades away?
India's largest telecom operator is preparing to open its subscription on 21 October and is expected to list within days. Behind the numbers is a bet that the public will pay a very high price for scale in Indian digital infrastructure.
A 7.8% print for the April-June quarter has been treated as a triumph by the government and as suspect by critics. Both camps are looking at the same dataset — and disagreeing about which year it is measured from.
Three numbers in every quarterly release describe the same three months. They are not interchangeable, and the most quoted one is the least direct.
The visible cost of a closed strait is not the barrel. It is a set of percentages charged per voyage, per charter and per container, and they compound.
The legislation passed on a voice vote at the end of July and awaits the President's assent. It targets a machinery problem that runs from recruitment notifications to delayed results.
ALPA India has written to the civil aviation ministry and the DGCA seeking a halt to services to the UAE until a joint threat assessment is done. The risk list it gives is worth reading on its own terms.
Gujarat's first policy targets ₹6 lakh crore of investment and 7.5 GW of capacity. Uttar Pradesh has approved a successor aiming at ₹2 lakh crore and 2 GW. The incentives read like tax holidays; the constraints are power, water and land.
Gold is roughly 30% below its January peak and silver close to 54% below its own. Brokerage research that swept the record since the 1970s finds this cycle is severe by recent standards and mild by historical ones.
Iranian media published the outline of a draft agreement on June 12. Reuters reported that no final deal had been reached. Both halves of that sentence matter.
Governor Sanjay Malhotra kept the stance neutral, left the policy rate unchanged on a unanimous vote, and cut the growth projection in the same decision, citing the West Asia conflict.
The southwest monsoon reached Kerala around June 4, several days behind schedule, and the season's forecast was cut. Neither fact is as alarming as it looks — and neither is as reassuring as it sounds.
The IMD has downgraded its seasonal outlook for the southwest monsoon to 90% of the long-period average, with below-normal rainfall forecast for three of the four regions. The percentage is a national average, and that is where its weakness lies.
An IIT Delhi study puts a number on something Indian air-quality policy has argued about for two decades. The figure is large, the mechanism is unglamorous, and the intervention is largely settled.
Five modules, two launches and a launch vehicle that has to be rebuilt before it can fly. The mission is still officially on track for October 2027.
Introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 25, the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 tightens identity checks, restricts how funds can be used and hands a new authority power over an NGO's assets.
Moving the consumer price index to a 2024 base changes the weights, the basket and the reference pair used for every year-on-year calculation. It does not change what inflation means.
The February Budget announced a second version of the India Semiconductor Mission and raised the electronics component outlay by more than 80%. The money is committed; the rules are not yet written.
The statistics office moved to a 2022-23 base year and reported 7.8% real growth for the October-December quarter. Two things changed at once, and only one of them is about performance.
Released on February 1 ahead of the budget speech, the statement sets out the arithmetic behind the fiscal targets. The nominal projection for the coming year matters more to the deficit path than the headline growth figure.
Washington has invited India into a trusted stack spanning mines, fabs and AI compute. The binding constraint on Indian supply chains is not the signature. It is that the mines are not yet open.
The National Statistics Office's first advance estimate for 2025-26 puts real growth above the government's own range and nominal growth at a five-year low. Both facts are true, and only one of them flatters the year.
