India now counts roughly 3,600 deep-tech startups, backed by a new DPIIT recognition framework and a Rs1 lakh crore government innovation fund. Yet most die between prototype and deployment.

India's Deep-Tech has a Prototype problem, that big Industry wants to fix

UPI processed Rs28.92 lakh crore in June 2026 alone, yet India's next fintech opportunity may not be another payments product. With a Rs30 lakh crore SIDBI-measured SME credit gap and UPI now live in eight countries.

India's fintech frontier is moving from transaction infrastructure to decision infrastructure

India's data centre water consumption will more than double to 358 billion litres by 2030. More than half of existing facilities already sit in water-stressed cities. A national policy has been in draft since 2020 with zero environmental requirements. The solutions exist. 

Data centres are not optional. So who's responsible for the damage? Part 2

India has slashed out-of-pocket health spending by over 20 percentage points in under a decade. Yet millions still delay treatment they cannot afford, even with insurance. The reasons for coverage and affordability, are not the same thing, and elective care is falling through the cracks.

India's wider Insurance coverage isn't buying affordable care | Analysis

Microsoft put in $17.5 billion, Google $6 billion, Adani $100 billion. The world has already decided India needs this infrastructure. The question India has not answered yet is whether it will build it on its own terms or someone else's.

The big data centre debate: Are they optional?

With WhatsApp Pay holding less than 1% of India's UPI market despite 500 million users, the deal of  $900 million investment by Meta in CRED is less about money and more about a payments problem Meta has spent six years failing to solve.

With $900 million, Meta eyes at 17 million members, one regulatory window and a payments problem in India

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's now banned JAAC has set an 8 Muharram deadline, warning of a "major announcement" if demands go unmet. A JAAC organiser has publicly alleged Army and ISI collaboration with drug mafias to kill protest leaders. 

Drug mafias, food blockades, internet blackouts: How Pakistan is bulldozing  protesters in Occupied Kashmir? And losing the clock

India ranks fourth in AI globally but attracts just 1% of global investment, when its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka languish between 59th and 68th. The experts who wrote the report say the talent is world-class but the capital, the compute & the regional strategy are not.

India's digital paradox: World-class talent, third-world capital | WION Expert Speak

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's government has banned its most powerful people's movement under anti-terrorism law, just four days before a territory-wide strike targeting the upcoming assembly elections.

Protests intensify in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir after govt bans Primary Advocacy Body (JAAC) ahead of elections

India just cracked the world's top 5 digital economies and ranks 4th in AI, beating Germany, France and Japan. But behind the rankings lies a damning contradiction, India holds 26% of global AI users yet attracts just 1% of global AI investment. Read here what SIDE-2026 report finds out.

India ranks 5th in Global Digital Economy, 4th in AI, but a capital gap threatens its ambitions: SIDE-26 report

Algorithmic systems now account for over half of India’s equity market trades, and 97% of foreign investors’ profits in futures and options. SEBI wants every broker, fund, and market institution to prove they can explain and audit every decision these machines make. Most are not ready.

SEBI’s AI audit push forces India’s financial sector into uncharted compliance territory: Analysis

The AI race is no longer primarily about models, algorithms or research output, but about who builds the physical ecosystems to run them at scale. While India ranks third most digitalised economy globally by scale, it is 11th in AI research output and 16th in AI infrastructure.

An Infrastructure Arms race quietly reshaping AI power. Where does India stand?

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