https://notscripted.in NOT SCRIPTED is an independent digital newsroom covering India, Bengaluru and Karnataka, politics, business, technology, world affairs, geopolitics, science, environment, culture, lifestyle and sport. Every story records the sources behind it. en-in Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:45:00 GMT NOT SCRIPTED NOT SCRIPTED 2026-2026 https://notscripted.in/article/karnataka-west-graduates-constituency-nominations-close https://notscripted.in/article/karnataka-west-graduates-constituency-nominations-close Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:10:00 GMT Bengaluru & Karnataka News Update Nominations for the Karnataka West Graduates' Constituency closed on a busy penultimate day, with Congress nominee Mohan Limbikai among five candidates and the BJP-backed S. V. Sankanur contesting a vote set for 23 October. https://notscripted.in/article/nobel-medicine-2026-light-gated-ion-channels-optogenetics https://notscripted.in/article/nobel-medicine-2026-light-gated-ion-channels-optogenetics Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:40:00 GMT Science Original Reporting The 2026 prize honours the discovery of light-gated ion channels — the molecular switches that made optogenetics possible. NOT SCRIPTED reads the Nobel Committee's own account of how three independent lines of work converged on the same molecule. https://notscripted.in/article/paris-fashion-week-afghan-designs-valentino https://notscripted.in/article/paris-fashion-week-afghan-designs-valentino Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Culture From Around The Web Two of the most-discussed moments of this Paris Fashion Week: Gabriela Hearst showing Afghan designs, and Valentino returning to the corset. NOT SCRIPTED has written this summary of reporting published elsewhere. https://notscripted.in/article/norway-proposes-ai-glasses-public-ban-explainer https://notscripted.in/article/norway-proposes-ai-glasses-public-ban-explainer Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:05:00 GMT World Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/ai-buildout-spending-before-money-runs-out https://notscripted.in/article/ai-buildout-spending-before-money-runs-out Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:45:00 GMT Technology Analysis The largest technology investment cycle in decades has a deadline attached to it — the point at which the spending has to start paying for itself. European telecom groups are now publishing the savings they expect from it, which makes the return calculation public for the first time. https://notscripted.in/article/india-us-trade-talks-plateau-sitharaman https://notscripted.in/article/india-us-trade-talks-plateau-sitharaman Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:20:00 GMT India News Update The finance minister used a deliberately flat word — plateau — to describe where the negotiations stand, and suggested that further concessions on either side may be difficult. The talks are not over, but neither side is signalling a near-term deal. https://notscripted.in/article/yemeni-forces-bab-el-mandeb-district-seized https://notscripted.in/article/yemeni-forces-bab-el-mandeb-district-seized Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:40:00 GMT Geopolitics News Update Saudi-backed forces aligned with Yemen's government have taken ground near the strait, according to military sources and regional reporting — a development with immediate consequences for one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. https://notscripted.in/article/us-supreme-court-climate-suits-big-oil-request-explainer https://notscripted.in/article/us-supreme-court-climate-suits-big-oil-request-explainer Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:15:00 GMT Environment Explainer 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? https://notscripted.in/article/nepal-floods-search-rescue-ends-glacial-lakes https://notscripted.in/article/nepal-floods-search-rescue-ends-glacial-lakes Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:10:00 GMT World News Update The search for those missing after the monsoon floods has been called off, and attention has shifted to a long-term programme of draining four glacial lakes identified as the source of the destruction. https://notscripted.in/article/jio-platforms-ipo-october-listing-explainer https://notscripted.in/article/jio-platforms-ipo-october-listing-explainer Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:50:00 GMT Business Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/foxconn-third-quarter-revenue-ai-demand https://notscripted.in/article/foxconn-third-quarter-revenue-ai-demand Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:35:00 GMT Technology News Update The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer's third-quarter revenue rose 47% year on year to about $95.4bn, beating market forecasts, with demand for AI hardware driving a record September. https://notscripted.in/article/rupee-record-lows-capital-outflows-rbi https://notscripted.in/article/rupee-record-lows-capital-outflows-rbi Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:30:00 GMT Business Analysis The currency slid to 96.30 against the dollar, with capital outflows blunting what the Reserve Bank of India can do. Intervening to hold a level is not the same as defending it, and the difference shows up in India's import bill. https://notscripted.in/article/iran-strait-of-hormuz-will-not-reopen-conditions https://notscripted.in/article/iran-strait-of-hormuz-will-not-reopen-conditions Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:15:00 GMT Geopolitics News Update Tehran has tied the reopening of the waterway to unspecified conditions, keeping the closure in place and leaving one of the world's most important oil chokepoints under a condition nobody outside Iran can evaluate. https://notscripted.in/article/protests-election-chief-gyanesh-kumar-eci https://notscripted.in/article/protests-election-chief-gyanesh-kumar-eci Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:40:00 GMT Politics News Update Demonstrators took to the streets in New Delhi and Mumbai over the position of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Police said more than 100 people were detained and officers were injured in the clashes. https://notscripted.in/article/schneider-electric-buys-ptc-industrial-software-deal https://notscripted.in/article/schneider-electric-buys-ptc-industrial-software-deal Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:25:00 GMT Business News Update The French industrial-technology conglomerate is close to acquiring PTC for about $22.6bn — a deal that would bolt a leading industrial-software business onto its electrical-equipment empire. https://notscripted.in/article/india-beat-pakistan-asian-games-cricket-final https://notscripted.in/article/india-beat-pakistan-asian-games-cricket-final Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:20:00 GMT Sports News Update India's chase of 212 in the final ended with Pakistan 192 all out, sealing a second gold in cricket at the 2026 Games after India completed a double in the event. https://notscripted.in/article/europe-summer-heat-stress-glacier-loss https://notscripted.in/article/europe-summer-heat-stress-glacier-loss Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:45:00 GMT Environment News Update EU scientists report that a majority of the continent's population experienced very strong heat stress over the summer, while separate research has a Slovenian glacier on track to disappear within days and Swiss ice taking another sharp loss. https://notscripted.in/article/skf-greta-garbo-ai-ad-ball-bearings https://notscripted.in/article/skf-greta-garbo-ai-ad-ball-bearings Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:30:00 GMT Lifestyle From Around The Web SKF's campaign for magnetic bearings reanimated a star who died in 1990, using American and Chinese AI tools. Critics called it an undead resurrection; others asked what a synthetic star means for the industry it came from. https://notscripted.in/article/former-finance-secretary-challenges-india-gdp-nominal-growth-figure https://notscripted.in/article/former-finance-secretary-challenges-india-gdp-nominal-growth-figure Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:45:00 GMT Business News Update Subhash Garg's intervention reopened an argument about national accounts that had been settled, on paper, since the last base-year revision. The government's own data has not changed. The measurement question has. https://notscripted.in/article/why-indias-gdp-growth-number-is-argued-about-base-year-explainer https://notscripted.in/article/why-indias-gdp-growth-number-is-argued-about-base-year-explainer Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT Business Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/global-fintech-fest-2026-mumbai-agentic-ai-tokenisation-quantum https://notscripted.in/article/global-fintech-fest-2026-mumbai-agentic-ai-tokenisation-quantum Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Business News Update The seventh edition runs from September 8 to 11, and the theme has moved decisively from potential to deployment — the question on the floor is no longer what the technology can do but who is regulated to let it do it. https://notscripted.in/article/india-gross-fixed-capital-formation-investment-surge https://notscripted.in/article/india-gross-fixed-capital-formation-investment-surge Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:45:00 GMT Business Analysis Capital formation doubled its growth rate in a quarter when rural demand slowed. That combination looks like capacity building. It also looks like a bet on demand that has not arrived. https://notscripted.in/article/how-to-read-india-gdp-gva-and-nominal-growth https://notscripted.in/article/how-to-read-india-gdp-gva-and-nominal-growth Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:15:00 GMT Business Explainer Three numbers in every quarterly release describe the same three months. They are not interchangeable, and the most quoted one is the least direct. https://notscripted.in/article/india-gdp-growth-7-8-percent-april-june-quarter https://notscripted.in/article/india-gdp-growth-7-8-percent-april-june-quarter Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMT Business News Update The National Statistics Office put real GDP at ₹81.36 lakh crore. Real gross value added grew 8.2%; nominal GDP grew 10.3%. https://notscripted.in/article/rahul-gandhi-attacks-nclt-subhash-chandra-settlement https://notscripted.in/article/rahul-gandhi-attacks-nclt-subhash-chandra-settlement Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:05:00 GMT Politics From Around The Web The Hindu reported the political attack on the tribunal order in two frames. NOT SCRIPTED has written this summary independently; read the original reports for their own account. https://notscripted.in/article/hormuz-war-risk-insurance-mines-shipping-costs https://notscripted.in/article/hormuz-war-risk-insurance-mines-shipping-costs Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT World Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/us-says-hormuz-mines-cleared-strait-traffic https://notscripted.in/article/us-says-hormuz-mines-cleared-strait-traffic Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:40:00 GMT Geopolitics News Update Axios reported the claim, with Al-Monitor and Times of Israel carrying an Iran–Oman agreement to clear them. The maritime agencies that would confirm it have not. https://notscripted.in/article/nclt-clears-subhash-chandra-repayment-plan-zee https://notscripted.in/article/nclt-clears-subhash-chandra-repayment-plan-zee Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:15:00 GMT Business News Update The order gives Subhash Chandra personal relief under the insolvency law. The lenders, The Hindu reports, are left with a haircut of roughly 99%. https://notscripted.in/article/patna-students-march-raj-bhavan-bpsc-exam-clash https://notscripted.in/article/patna-students-march-raj-bhavan-bpsc-exam-clash Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:30:00 GMT Politics News Update Water cannon, lathi-charges and detentions were reported on August 25 as demonstrators carried the teacher recruitment dispute to the governor's door. https://notscripted.in/article/india-oil-import-exposure-strait-hormuz-data https://notscripted.in/article/india-oil-import-exposure-strait-hormuz-data Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:40:00 GMT Geopolitics Original Reporting NOT SCRIPTED assembled the Congressional Research Service, the IEA, the EIA and the FAO's trade data into a single exposure map — and found that the most useful number for India is also the least commonly quoted. https://notscripted.in/article/isro-stop-making-launch-vehicles-private-sector https://notscripted.in/article/isro-stop-making-launch-vehicles-private-sector Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:30:00 GMT Science News Update The statement, carried on August 21, redraws a boundary the space policy has been pushing towards for years — and leaves the crewed programme untouched. https://notscripted.in/article/vessel-hit-projectile-strait-hormuz-ukmto-august https://notscripted.in/article/vessel-hit-projectile-strait-hormuz-ukmto-august Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:45:00 GMT Geopolitics News Update Al Jazeera and Gulf News reported separate UKMTO-sourced accounts of a projectile strike on commercial shipping. Neither identified the attacker. https://notscripted.in/article/bpsc-teacher-recruitment-notification-protests-patna https://notscripted.in/article/bpsc-teacher-recruitment-notification-protests-patna Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Politics News Update Applications open on September 1. The exam calendar that produced the agitation — the 70th combined competitive examination — is untouched. https://notscripted.in/article/uae-intercepts-two-iranian-ballistic-missiles-august https://notscripted.in/article/uae-intercepts-two-iranian-ballistic-missiles-august Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:20:00 GMT Geopolitics News Update One of the two fell inside UAE territorial waters, according to the same report. No casualty account has been published. https://notscripted.in/article/bhogapuram-airport-commercial-flights-bengaluru-routes https://notscripted.in/article/bhogapuram-airport-commercial-flights-bengaluru-routes Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:20:00 GMT India News Update Air India moved its first scheduled services out of the new airport on August 17. For travellers in Bengaluru, the pair replaces a road leg — if it holds. https://notscripted.in/article/exam-paper-leak-bill-parliament-student-protests https://notscripted.in/article/exam-paper-leak-bill-parliament-student-protests Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT Politics Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/india-fuel-logistics-hormuz-shock-not-supply https://notscripted.in/article/india-fuel-logistics-hormuz-shock-not-supply Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:15:00 GMT India Analysis Maharashtra is running dry pumps while refiners keep running. The distinction is not pedantry: it decides whether the fix is a tanker, a truck or a price. https://notscripted.in/article/dry-bulk-ship-struck-hormuz-crew-abandon-vessel https://notscripted.in/article/dry-bulk-ship-struck-hormuz-crew-abandon-vessel Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMT Geopolitics From Around The Web Reuters, Seatrade Maritime and Al Arabiya reported on the same incident in different registers. NOT SCRIPTED has written an independent summary; the original reports are worth reading in full. https://notscripted.in/article/delhi-court-acquits-brij-bhushan-singh-wrestling-case https://notscripted.in/article/delhi-court-acquits-brij-bhushan-singh-wrestling-case Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:45:00 GMT Sports News Update The Rouse Avenue matter, opened in April 2023 after two complaints, ended with a clean acquittal for the former federation chief and his associate. https://notscripted.in/article/qatari-lng-tanker-struck-strait-hormuz-august https://notscripted.in/article/qatari-lng-tanker-struck-strait-hormuz-august Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:15:00 GMT Geopolitics News Update Bloomberg reported the strike on Saturday; CNBC reported that tankers near Oman were coming under fire the same day. Neither identified who fired, and no casualty account was published. https://notscripted.in/article/modi-inaugurates-bhogapuram-airport-andhra-pradesh https://notscripted.in/article/modi-inaugurates-bhogapuram-airport-andhra-pradesh Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:30:00 GMT India News Update The Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport was inaugurated about 45 km from Visakhapatnam, ending a project that sat on the state government's list from 2015-16 to a 2024 handover of naval land. https://notscripted.in/article/delhis-worst-july-for-air-in-seven-years https://notscripted.in/article/delhis-worst-july-for-air-in-seven-years Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:40:00 GMT Environment Analysis Rainfall at Safdarjung ran 26% above normal, one day was the cleanest July day in a decade, and the monthly average AQI still came in at 119. Both facts belong in the same paragraph. https://notscripted.in/article/cwma-upholds-cauvery-release-to-tamil-nadu https://notscripted.in/article/cwma-upholds-cauvery-release-to-tamil-nadu Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:20:00 GMT Bengaluru & Karnataka News Update The authority rejected Karnataka's request to defer the CWRC direction and reaffirmed 3,500 cusecs a day at Biligundlu for 15 days. Farmer groups, Kannada organisations and the state's film industry have closed ranks against it. https://notscripted.in/article/india-steel-ccts-targets-are-too-soft-to-matter https://notscripted.in/article/india-steel-ccts-targets-are-too-soft-to-matter Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:55:00 GMT Environment Original Reporting The draft intensity targets covering 255 units ask for a median cut of about 5.5% against a 2023-24 baseline. Against an intensity gap of roughly 0.64 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel, that is not a decarbonisation schedule. https://notscripted.in/article/public-examinations-bill-introduced-in-lok-sabha https://notscripted.in/article/public-examinations-bill-introduced-in-lok-sabha Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:05:00 GMT Politics News Update Jitendra Singh introduced the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill with 91 amendments moved against it. The six-hour debate slot never happened, because the House ran on Opposition demands for a statement on police action in Delhi. https://notscripted.in/article/hormuz-war-risk-premiums-have-doubled https://notscripted.in/article/hormuz-war-risk-premiums-have-doubled Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT World Analysis Marsh reports additional premiums for Hormuz transits rising from 1-3% of hull value to 7.5-10% in weeks. India's state-backed pool has not moved yet, which is the more interesting fact. https://notscripted.in/article/kevda-fossil-leaves-push-assam-record-back https://notscripted.in/article/kevda-fossil-leaves-push-assam-record-back Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:30:00 GMT Science News Update Late Oligocene Pandanaceae leaves recovered from the Makum Coalfield match features still visible on the living plant, and point to tropical lineages surviving climatic upheaval in South Asia. https://notscripted.in/article/monsoon-floods-kill-82-across-three-countries https://notscripted.in/article/monsoon-floods-kill-82-across-three-countries Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:10:00 GMT India From Around The Web Assam accounts for 36 of the deaths and more than 650,000 people affected across 11 districts, after very heavy rain in Nagaland sent unusually high flows down the Brahmaputra. https://notscripted.in/article/why-indian-pilots-want-gulf-flights-suspended https://notscripted.in/article/why-indian-pilots-want-gulf-flights-suspended Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:15:00 GMT Geopolitics Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/bengaluru-green-line-metro-halted-by-power-breakdown https://notscripted.in/article/bengaluru-green-line-metro-halted-by-power-breakdown Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:05:00 GMT Bengaluru & Karnataka News Update Trains were restricted to Silk Institute and Yeshwanthpur from 8 am on Tuesday, and the Yeshwanthpur–Madavara stretch was suspended, before BMRCL restored full services at 8.45 am. https://notscripted.in/article/mirabai-chanu-to-carry-india-flag-at-glasgow https://notscripted.in/article/mirabai-chanu-to-carry-india-flag-at-glasgow Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:45:00 GMT Sports News Update The Indian Olympic Association named the Tokyo medallists for the July 23 opening ceremony at the OVO Hydro, where each of the 74 Commonwealth nations has been given a baton reflecting its own culture. https://notscripted.in/article/tcs-opens-nvidia-backed-ai-lab-in-bengaluru https://notscripted.in/article/tcs-opens-nvidia-backed-ai-lab-in-bengaluru Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:20:00 GMT Bengaluru & Karnataka News Update The facility on Global Axis is pitched as a place where enterprises move agentic AI pilots into production for mobility and manufacturing, rather than a research centre. https://notscripted.in/article/tamil-writer-poomani-dies-at-79 https://notscripted.in/article/tamil-writer-poomani-dies-at-79 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:25:00 GMT Culture From Around The Web The Sahitya Akademi award-winning chronicler of the dry lands around Sivakasi had been working on a sequel to his 170-year epic until his death. Tamil Nadu has announced state honours for his final rites. https://notscripted.in/article/india-retail-inflation-hits-4-38-percent-in-june https://notscripted.in/article/india-retail-inflation-hits-4-38-percent-in-june Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:30:00 GMT Business News Update Consumer prices rose faster than the RBI's 4% median after a June that carried food inflation up to 5.32% from 4.78%, leaving the rate path dependent on the monsoon and crude prices. https://notscripted.in/article/gujarat-and-up-arrive-with-data-centre-policies https://notscripted.in/article/gujarat-and-up-arrive-with-data-centre-policies Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:35:00 GMT Technology Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/tcs-q1-fy27-profit-up-margin-under-pressure https://notscripted.in/article/tcs-q1-fy27-profit-up-margin-under-pressure Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:35:00 GMT Business News Update The country's largest IT services exporter reported a 4.6% rise in net profit for the June quarter and a 13.9% jump in revenue, while the sequential margin decline the company had flagged arrived. https://notscripted.in/article/gold-silver-correction-and-what-history-says https://notscripted.in/article/gold-silver-correction-and-what-history-says Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:50:00 GMT Lifestyle Explainer 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. https://notscripted.in/article/meity-says-dedicated-ai-law-may-be-considered https://notscripted.in/article/meity-says-dedicated-ai-law-may-be-considered Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:20:00 GMT Technology News Update The electronics and IT ministry's secretary frames a standalone statute as an addition to, not a replacement for, the existing regime used so far on deepfakes and content labelling. https://notscripted.in/article/below-normal-july-rainfall-forecast-by-imd https://notscripted.in/article/below-normal-july-rainfall-forecast-by-imd Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:40:00 GMT Environment News Update The weather office puts the country's wettest month of the monsoon at under 94% of the long-period average, and warns of above-normal daytime and night temperatures across most of India. https://notscripted.in/article/special-intensive-revision-2026-what-the-rolls-show https://notscripted.in/article/special-intensive-revision-2026-what-the-rolls-show Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:30:00 GMT Politics Original Reporting On June 30 the Election Commission began the exercise in Karnataka, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Delhi. It reaches into every household that votes, and the Supreme Court has already ruled on its legality.