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India to seek purchase of Russian jets, air defenses during Putin's visit, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/30/india-to-seek-purchase-of.html

> In this case, the state-owned Sanchar Saathi app is already available on the App Store and Google Play Store, but this order would make it mandatory and prevent it from being disabled or deleted.
https://www.theverge.com/news/834998/india-sanchar-saathi…

India is ordering Apple and other phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app
Apple, Samsung, Oppo, and other manufacturers are being ordered to preload the state-backed Sanchar Saathi security app on all new phones sold in India.

Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…

Sources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

"'India coal power may peak by 2030 under clean energy targets"
#India #Energy #Renewables #FossilFuels

India coal power may peak by 2030 under clean energy targets
If India meets its 500 GW non-fossil capacity goal, its coal power generation could reach peak levels by 2030, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).

India's largest oil refiner reportedly buys Russian crude from non-sanctioned entities: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/indias-largest-oil-refiner-reportedly.html

Nicht nur iPhones: Auch bald viele AirPods "made in India"
Mindestens 25 Prozent aller Apple-Handys kommen mittlerweile vom Subkontinent. Nun kommt (mehr) Zubehör hinzu.
https://www.

India's pollution refugees fleeing Delhi's toxic air #India

India's pollution refugees fleeing Delhi's toxic air
Pollution levels in India's capital shaped Natasha Uppal and her husband's decision on parenthood—either raise their child away from the city, or stay put and remain childless.

Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/goog

Google partners with Ambani's Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India | TechCrunch
The offer will first roll out to Jio users aged 18 to 25 before expanding to all subscribers nationwide.

Tenyidie Syllabification corpus creation and deep learning applications
Teisovi Angami, Kevisino Khate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00629 https://arxiv.org/p…

Tenyidie Syllabification corpus creation and deep learning applications
The Tenyidie language is a low-resource language of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken by the Tenyimia Community of Nagaland in the north-eastern part of India and is considered a major language in Nagaland. It is tonal, Subject-Object-Verb, and highly agglutinative in nature. Being a low-resource language, very limited research on Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been conducted. To the best of our knowledge, no work on syllabification has been reported for this language. Among the many NLP t…

Auch dies ist erkenntnisfördernd, meanwhile: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/world/asia/india-hindu-right-rss-modi.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.S51j.Rw7cgoqjBAKx&smid=url-share

From the Shadows to Power: How the Hindu Right Reshaped India
The far-right group known as the R.S.S., whose members include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has spent a century trying to make India a Hindu-first nation.

"India forecast to add 41.5 GW of new solar capacity in fiscal 2026"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

India forecast to add 41.5 GW of new solar capacity in fiscal 2026
JMK Research expects India to install 41.5 GW of solar capacity in fiscal 2026, including 32 GW from utility-scale projects, 8 GW from rooftop systems and 1.5 GW from off-grid installations.

Very unusual to see Australia get Australia'ed, that too by India. What a gripping pair of semi-finals in the women's ODI world cup! Just hope the final doesn't prove to be a damp squib. #cricket

https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/
Thanks @… for sharing!

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.

Sembcorp just made a major move in India's renewable energy space.
The company acquired a 300 MW solar project in Rajasthan that's already connected to the grid and backed by a 25-year power purchase agreement. This pushes their India renewable capacity past 7.6 GW and their global portfolio to 20.2 GW.

Sembcorp completes acquisition of 300 MW solar project in India
Sembcorp Industries has closed a full buyout of a grid-connected solar facility in western India, adding a long-term contracted 300 MW asset to its renewable energy operations in the country.

🤯 How India's unplanned hydropower dams and tunnels are disrupting Himalayan landscapes
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-india-unplanned-hydropower-tunnels-disrupting.html

How India's unplanned hydropower dams and tunnels are disrupting Himalayan landscapes
Uttarakhand, referred to as the land of gods, is also known as the energy state of India. It is home to several fast-flowing rivers at high altitudes that serve as the perfect backdrop for harnessing energy from water to produce hydroelectric power.

getting very bad vibes from the 'neo' personal assistant robot being mostly remote controlled by minimum wage workers in silicon valley, which will inevitably be outsourced to india. you can pay 500 USD/month to own a digital slave.
the idea is an 'ai' robot which just does household things for you like chores and no one is being exploited since it's a robot, but in reality it's just a remote controlled slave. the exploitation is simply hidden, more abstract, l…

30 years ago #OTD I was in #India to observe a Total #SolarEclipse lasting under a minute in Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan: my report on the whole trip to this amazing country - written originally for an English magazine - can be found at https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/india_95_story.html while the picture here was taken by Voyto Rušin at the same observing camp and processed by Miloslav Druckmüller: http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/eclipse/Ecl1995i/0-info.htm

India’s Beautiful and Historic Stepwells Restored to Working Order for the Thirsty Nation https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/indias-beautiful-and-historic-stepwells-restored-to-working-order-for-the-thirsty-nation/

India's Beautiful and Historic Stepwells Restored to Working Order for the Thirsty Nation
Ancient Indian stepwells are being restored to modern water storage facilities to help cure modern water shortages.

More legacy edu space likely to be used for hosting.
Not immediately obvious who or what steel-axis is to me, and who they represent. They have a virtual business address in Delaware, a gmail email, and a RIR database contact address in Israel. RIPE-based LIR that has gotten a number of transfers over the years, usually ending up being used by India-based HostRoyale.

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"St. Catherine University" (ARIN) transferred: 140.225.32.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.0.0 - 140.225.191.255), 140.225.40.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.0.0 - 140.225.191.255), 140.225.48.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.0.0 - 140.225.191.255), 140.225.56.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.0.0 - 140.225.191.255) to ...

India partners with sanctioned Russian firm to produce passenger aircraft: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/india-partners-with-sanctioned-russian.html

Wow. #India #women successfully chase down Australia's monster 338 runs in ODI Word Cup #Cricekt semis. 🏏 👩
Seeing the target and hearing of two India wickets falling at ~80, I was fairly certain India would lose this but boy did they show how to chase. 👏
#sports

Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M Series B led by General Atlantic (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/bnpl-startup-snapmint-raises…

BNPL startup Snapmint raises $125 Mn led by General Atlantic
Buy now pay later startup Snapmint has raised $125 million in its Series B funding led by General Atlantic, with participation from Prudent Investment Managers. News

Indian e-commerce platform Meesho is set to launch an India IPO, seeking to raise $606M, targeting a post-issue valuation of ~$5.60B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/28/softbank-stays-in-as-meesho-…

SoftBank stays in as Meesho $606M IPO becomes India's first major e-commerce listing | TechCrunch
Meesho heads for India's first big e-commerce IPO next week.

China
USA
Myanmar
Australia
Nigeria
Thailand
India
Russia
Madagascar
Vietnam
The 10 leading countries by Rare Earth metal production
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Discover the Top 10 Countries Leading Rare Earth Metal Production
Rare earth metal production surged in 2024, with China dominating the market. But with tensions rising between the US and China, will global supply chain disruptions impact the rare earths industry? We provide updates on the top 10 rare earths producing countries. #rareearths

"India posts record 4.9 GW of rooftop solar additions in first nine months of 2025"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

India posts record 4.9 GW of rooftop solar additions in first nine months of 2025
India installed 4.9 GW of rooftop solar capacity in the first nine months of 2025, including 2.1 GW in the third quarter, with cumulative capacity reaching 18.6 GW, according to Mercom India.

India continues to support Russia's genocide in Ukraine by buying sanctioned oil.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/25/indias-top-refiner-quietly-returns-to-russian-oil-with-shadowed-supply-route-d…

India's top refiner quietly returns to Russian oil with shadowed supply route despite US sanctions - Euromaidan Press
Reliance Industries is sourcing Russian barrels through non-sanctioned paths to keep its domestic refinery fed.

Toxic haze chokes Indian capital #India

Toxic haze chokes Indian capital
India's capital New Delhi was shrouded in a thick, toxic haze on Monday as air pollution levels soared to more than 16 times the World Health Organization's recommended daily maximum.

India's JioStar reports gross revenue of $815M for the quarter ending September 30 and $149M profit after tax; JioHotstar averaged 400M monthly active users (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jiostar-2-billion-…

India's JioStar Hits $2 Billion Revenue With 400 Million Users
JioStar reports $2 billion in half-year revenue with 400 million streaming users as India-England cricket draws 170 million viewers.

One of my early memories is hearing the #Islamic call for prayer in #Hyderabad #India and how beautiful it was, a morning symphony of beautiful singing and chanting, likely much the same as it has been for centurie…

Yesterday we devoured some sweets brought over from India 🇮🇳 by the fabulous grumpy @… 🤤

Trotz rückläufiger verbrannter Fläche stiegen die CO₂-Emissionen durch #Waldbrände 2024/25 auf über 8 Milliarden Tonnen – rund 10 % mehr als im langjährigen Schnitt.
Ursache sind vermehrte #Brände in kohlenstoffreichen

Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 - Carbon Brief
“Extreme” wildfires emitted more than 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide during the 2024-25 “global fire season”, according to a new report.

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17% YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/india-startu…

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective | TechCrunch
Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into fewer companies.

Call for Papers for an Edited Volume - Train Narratives in India: Marking 100 Years of the Electric Train in India (1925–2025)
https://ift.tt/N2wmkGn
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ArcelorMittal is betting big on India's clean energy future with $900M in new projects.
The steel giant is building a 250MW wind farm, 300MW solar facility, and massive battery storage in Gujarat—cutting 1.59 million tons of CO2 annually. Combined with projects in Brazil and Argentina, they're adding 3.3GW of renewable capacity.

ArcelorMittal announces $900m renewable energy projects in India
ArcelorMittal has unveiled three new renewable energy projects with a combined nominal solar and wind capacity of 1 gigawatt (GW) in India, representing an total expenditure of about $900m.

Just because she went to India doesn't mean she's not an idiot

Why is India prosecuting Muslims who said ‘I love Muhammad’? | Islamophobia News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/14/why-is-india-prosecuting-muslims-who-said-i-love?traffic_source=rss

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"Sembcorp completes acquisition of 300 MW solar project in India"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Sembcorp completes acquisition of 300 MW solar project in India
Sembcorp Industries has closed a full buyout of a grid-connected solar facility in western India, adding a long-term contracted 300 MW asset to its renewable energy operations in the country.

OpenAI offers its cheaper ChatGPT Go plan for free for one year to users in India starting November 4, but did not say how long the offer would remain available (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-offers-free…

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go for one year to all users in India | TechCrunch
ChatGPT Go is now free for Indian users under a limited-time promotional offer.

French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/india-the-marke…

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest | TechCrunch
BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year.

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been
🆘 targeted and hacked by governments all over the world.
Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated #spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world

Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

Trump takes aim at Putin’s oil lifeline — China and India still hold the key: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/trump-takes-aim-at-putins.html

Was not expecting this plot twist in a Tina Brown interview.

Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, driven by rising incomes and cheap smartphones and data (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/202…

Anxiety after some people spread fake #AI images of African tigers and leopards roaming the streets of a South Indian city.
And we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the real #danger AI poses. It will soon get very bad and out of control. 😨
#AI_images

Viral YouTube Film Investigates How Milk Is Farmed In India #AnimalRights

Viral YouTube Film Investigates How Milk Is Farmed In India
A new short film about how milk is farmed in India has gone viral, and shows the filmmakers visiting farms in seven Indian towns

India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM (Kamya Pandey/MediaNama)
https://www.medianama.com/2025/11/223-dot-sim-binding-direc…

CFP> Dhammasākacchā: International Level Students’ Conference 2026
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Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
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"Climate change is wreaking havoc on World Cultural Heritage sites, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change is wreaking havoc on World Cultural Heritage sites, study finds
The Great Wall of China, Petra of Jordan, Ellora Caves of India, the traditional Ottoman Houses in Turkey — none of these world-famous historical sites can easily be replaced if damaged. Yet, each of these sits out in the open, inviting hordes of tourists every year, under alarming climate jolts. A recent global assessment revealed […]

India assures White House it will stop buying Russian oil, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/india-assures-white-house-it.html

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending frenzy in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

AI spending frenzy reaches India, sparking enthusiasm and concern
Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a combined $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October. Eighty percent of those commitments came this month.

#tbt: Jan. 1st 2025, I'd just arrived in #Udupi #India on #sabbatical, a "baby"; knew no one. With Sri Krishna's grace, the Swamijis' guidance, and the kindness of hundreds, I now feel I belong and welcomed there. 🙏
Some pictures I took that day (PS alt text):
#gratitude #throwback #photography #amateur #chariot

Foul skies, fading light: How air pollution is stealing India's sunshine #India

How air pollution is stealing India's sunshine
India’s sunshine hours have fallen over the past 30 years due to clouds, aerosols and local weather.

"India reaches 490 MWh energy storage capacity by June 2025"
#India #Energy #Batteries

India reaches 490 MWh energy storage capacity by June 2025
Policy incentives and hybrid solar-plus-storage projects are accelerating India’s energy storage sector despite a slowdown in first-half installations.

India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/indi…

India's gig workers win legal status, but access to social security remains elusive | TechCrunch
India is restructuring its gig economy with a new labor law, but much more is needed before gig workers see real benefits.

Many of the most influential personalities in the
“Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X
💥are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India,
a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.
The new tool, called “about this account,” became available on Friday to users of the Elon Musk-owned platform.
It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed, …

Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Where does a western chemical plant that contaminated drinking water go next? To India https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/miteni-factory-pfas-plant-italy-india

"Massive fungus from India is newly described species"
#India #Mushroom #Fungus

Massive fungus from India is newly described species
From the forests of northeast India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, researchers have described a new-to-science species of fungus with “exceptionally large” fruiting bodies that can hold the weight of a person. The species is named Bridgeoporus kanadii in honor of Indian mycologist Kanad Das for his contributions to Indian macrofungi. The researchers led by Arvind Parihar, […]

A look at quick commerce in India and China: India's ecosystem is evolving into a retail-media play, while China's is being used as a weapon in platform wars. (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/quick-commerce-india-china

Delivering Different Things Entirely
Quick commerce has become a retail-media play in India and a platform weapon in China.

Award-Winning Documentary On India’s Dairy Industry Removed By YouTube #AnimalRights

Award-Winning Documentary On India's Dairy Industry Removed By YouTube
Maa Ka Doodh,' an award-winning documentary on India’s dairy industry, has been removed by YouTube due to alleged violation of its policies

INDIA TOLERATES CRIMINALS: PUTIN arrives with propaganda statements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/india-tolerates-criminals-putin-arrives.html

Coinbase says a former customer service agent was arrested in India, following a May breach where hackers bribed contractors to access sensitive customer data (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Sources: Temasek is in talks to buy a ~5% stake in Quest Global, in a deal that values the engineering services company at $4.6B in the lead-up to its India IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-28/t…

"Coal India starts accepting bids for 20 MW floating solar plant"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Coal India starts accepting bids for 20 MW floating solar plant
Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has opened tendering for a grid-connected 20 MW floating solar photovoltaic project at Chilwa Taal, Gorakhpur, including five years of operation and maintenance.

India and Russia discuss small nuclear reactors #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/india-and-russia-discuss-small.html

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.

Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encora, which offers AI tools for product, cloud, and data engineering, at an enterprise value of $2.35B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-coforge-acquire-us-based…

Putin wraps up first India visit in 4 years, touts 'privileged partnership' on oil, defense: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/putin-wraps-up-first-india.html

NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/india-pil…

India pilots AI chatbot-led e-commerce with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude in the mix | TechCrunch
India has launched a pilot to let users shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, starting with ChatGPT.

Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-launches-sub-5-ai-pl…

Google launches sub-$5 AI Plus plan in India to compete with ChatGPT Go | TechCrunch
For new users in India, Google is offering an AI Plus subscription for ₹199 ($2.21) for the first six months, after which you'll have to pay ₹399 ($4.44).

"India passes 132.8 GW of installed solar capacity"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
…

India passes 132.8 GW of installed solar capacity
India’s installed solar capacity reached 132.85 GW at the end of November 2025, led by utility-scale projects in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, according to the central government.

Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/apple-lob…

Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides CNC machines to Foxconn, for ~$100M in August (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/tata-electronics-buys-chines…

Tata Electronics acquires Chinese iPhone supplier Justech's India unit for about $100 million, sources say
Tata Electronics seeks to expand iPhone manufacturing capacity as Apple aimed to make all of the iPhones intended for the U.S. market in India by end-2026.

Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation in October 2025 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economi…

Zepto makes confidential filing with Sebi for $1.3 billion IPO: sources
The listing is planned for the July-September quarter of 2026. In October, the quick commerce major had closed a $450 million round, valuing it at $7 billion. As of late November, Zepto had around Rs 7,000 crore in cash, while competitors Eternal and Swiggy each have around Rs 17,000-18,000 crore on their books currently.

India-listed RRP Semiconductor's stock surged 55,000% in the 20 months through Dec. 17, despite negative revenue; source: India's SEBI is examining the surge (Chiranjivi Chakraborty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/anthropic-…

Anthropic plans to open India office, eyes tie-up with billionaire Ambani | TechCrunch
Anthropic's next big bet is India — one of its fastest-growing markets worldwide.

Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/coin

Coinbase starts onboarding users again in India, plans for fiat on-ramp next year | TechCrunch
Coinbase is exploring expansion into India with a staggered relaunch and hiring for different roles.

Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru in early 2026; Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet government officials and potential partners (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-global-operations-to-india

Anthropic expands global operations to India, plans to open an office in Bengaluru.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

How Meesho and the rise of quick commerce companies disrupted Flipkart and Amazon's e-commerce duopoly that had existed in India for over a decade until 2023 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/meesho

A Tale of Two Indias and Three E-commerce Models
Quick commerce conquered the cities, Meesho captured the heartland, and the old giants are squeezed between both.

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/with-free…

An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India (Nilesh Christopher/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1124621/openai-in…

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.

India says it revoked an order to smartphone makers to preload state-run cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on new smartphones, after protests from lawmakers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-cyber-safe…

How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/meet-ai-chatbots-replacing-in…

Facing disruption from GenAI, the $250B Indian IT industry has adapted by focusing on preparatory work AI requires, such as data cleanup and system integration (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/indian-it-firms-are-doing-fine

The AI Revolution Needs Plumbers
How Indian IT learned to stop worrying and sell the AI shovel

Google plans to invest $15B over five years in India to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern Andhra Pradesh state; Google has 14K staff in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Google to invest $15B in Indian AI infrastructure hub | TechCrunch
Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.

Indian IT giant TCS cut 19,755 jobs in the quarter ended September 30, as strained US relations and a rapid shift to AI reshape India's $280B IT services sector (Harshita Swaminathan/Bloomberg)
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Tata Consultancy Services Makes Steepest Ever Job Cuts
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. made its steepest-ever job cuts as strained ties with the US and a rapid shift toward artificial intelligence reshape the country’s $280 billion IT services sector.

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
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Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
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Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 cr numbers a month
The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations. Officials are discussing with WhatsApp how to curb this, as the platform's refusal to share banned numbers hinders efforts to combat cyber fraud and scams.

Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
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Domestic firms may chip in for the iPhone
Exploratory conversations have taken place between Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat. It’s the first time Apple is evaluating the prospect of having certain chips assembled and packaged in India.

Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho is up 95% from its IPO offer price, valuing it at nearly $11B and making it India's best-performing major IPO of 2025 (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)
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Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/indias-kuku-snags-85m-as-mobil…

India's Kuku snags $85M as mobile content wars intensify | TechCrunch
Kuku plans to expand beyond India with a U.S. launch slated for next year.

AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
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