Tootfinder

Reporters say Indian police detained ~36 journalists from the Indian Express and other outlets for hours while covering youth protests on October 10 and 11 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/reporters-ac…

A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

"Google’s $15bn India data centre project faces water and environmental challenges"
#Google #India #Technology

Google’s $15bn India data centre project faces water and environmental challenges
Google’s planned $15bn data centre hub in Andhra Pradesh, India, is facing growing opposition from environmental activists over water use and its proximity to wildlife habitat, even as construction at the site moves ahead.

Police in New Delhi detained hundreds of people Friday
amid a crackdown on demonstrations challenging India’s election authorities
and their controversial revision of voter rolls,
prompting Amnesty International to accuse the government of trampling fundamental rights in the world’s largest democracy.
https://www.

Amnesty Decries 'Blatant Attack' on Right to Assembly Amid Crackdown on India Election Protests | Common Dreams
Led by student groups and opposition parties, the protesters are demanding the resignation of India's elections chief as more than 133 million people have been deleted from voter rolls since last year.

Elon Musk claims "certain oligarchs" are stalling Starlink's India launch to protect a "monopolistic chokehold"; SpaceX signed MOUs with Jio and Airtel in 2025 (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/elon-musk-starlink-spa…

Elon Musk blames Indian 'oligarchs' for stalling Starlink launch
Space X founder Elon Musk accused oligarchs in India of keeping Starlink out of the country to protect their monopoly over consumers.

"India connects 124 million rural homes to tap water"
#India #Water #Health

India connects 124 million rural homes to tap water | The Optimist Daily
India’s Jal Jeevan Mission has connected 124 million rural households to tap water since 2019, lifting coverage from 16.7 percent to 81 percent.

India's Pocket FM doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500M over the past year as it increases AI use; it still uses humans for ideas and storytelling (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/indi

India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content | TechCrunch
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/09/exotic-pet-trade-poses-rising-zoonotic-disease-risks-in-india/

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India
In India, the exotic pet trade is increasing the risk of zoonotic disease spillovers, as close contact with imported wild animals creates repeated opportunities for dangerous pathogens to jump to humans and vice versa, reports Mongabay India’s Arathi Menon. Dr. Rina Dev, an avian and exotic animal veterinarian in Mumbai who treats imported and seized […]

Examining Alec Pierce situation in Indianapolis as WR (ankle) continues to sit out Colts practice https://www.nfl.com/news/alec-pierce-indianapolis-colts-practice-ankle-injury

PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India in the next 3-4 years, for a total investment of $500M since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/krafton-doubles-down-…

Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming | TechCrunch
Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.

RE: #gratitude #ama #India

Transport von Nutzlast ins All: SpaceX als die East India Company unserer Zeit
Seit mehr als 60 Jahren sinken die Kosten für den Transport von Nutzlast ins All. Laut einer Analyse gibt es in der Geschichte keine vergleichbare Entwicklung.

Transport von Nutzlast ins All: SpaceX als die East India Company unserer Zeit
Seit mehr als 60 Jahren sinken die Kosten für den Transport von Nutzlast ins All. Laut einer Analyse gibt es in der Geschichte keine vergleichbare Entwicklung.

Groups Associated With
India’s Far-Right
Receive Millions Through
US Donor-Advised Funds
US non-profits whose founding leaders or organisations have been associated with India’s controversial Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
– or initiatives the Hindu nationalist group has endorsed
– received millions of dollars over recent years through grants that allow donors to remain anonymous, a Bellingcat analysis has found. 
The right-wing and Hindu nationa…

US DAFs Donate Millions to Groups Linked to India’s Far-Right
Donor-advised funds allow individuals and foundations to give money to charities while remaining anonymous.

@… How would Russian tankers even reach the US that quickly, unless they were sent weeks ago? It's not as if Russia has any diesel to spare, they are importing it from India because of the Ukrainian-damaged refineries have lost capacity. This is just a scam to make gullib Republican voters think something is being done about prices before the…

Heute vor 13 Jahren: Am 10. August 2013 aktivierte #Indien den Reaktor an Bord der INS Arihant, dem ersten in Indien entworfenen und gebauten Atom-U-Boot.

How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic work (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dee4bd2c-fbad-4713-9b14-22d441967ce4

India's youth protests have shown open hostility toward Modi-allied traditional media, using Instagram and YouTube to bypass pro-government outlets (Vidya Krishnan/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/student-upri

Student Uprisings in India Short-Circuit an Outdated Media Machine - Nieman Reports
As mass protests, organized on social media, sweep the nation, old-guard outlets struggle to keep up, and Modi makes his Instagram debut.

India's monsoon rain depends on where air gets cleaner #India

India's monsoon rain depends on where air gets cleaner
Cleaning up pollution around the world could bring significantly more rainfall to India's monsoon than regional action alone, research from the University of Reading shows and highlights the value of international cooperation on air quality.

Triple M Homegrown With Matty O
British India Drummer and Triple M's own Matty O hosts the Australian Music show that every band wants to get on...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/homegrown-with-matty-o/

"A sprawling expanse of white #marble waste in #India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-covered valley than a dumping ground"
(h/t drsadhbh on bsky) #quarry

India marble waste dump turns unlikely tourist attraction
A sprawling expanse of white marble waste in India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-covered valley than a dumping ground.

Bengaluru-based Yulu, which gets ~95% of its revenue from renting e-bikes to gig workers, raised a $93M Series C, sources say at a ~$170M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/indias-yulu-raises-…

India's Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand | TechCrunch
Yulu aims to have a fleet of 200,000 bikes in the next two years and faster electric two-wheelers, aiming at new logistics use cases.

I guess this will become the new #fad for #gym #nerds :P
IG NOBEL CHEMISTRY PRIZE 2026 [INDIA, FRANCE, JAPAN, CANADA, USA]
Sanchari Banerjee, Nathan Coussens, François-Xavier Gallat, Nitish Sa…

Never, ever, is there a slow day in cybersecurity, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial developments you should know, including
--Hackers post alleged blueprints and supplier data from India nuclear project,
--TfL hackers sentenced to 5½ years in prison,
--Hacking suspect once worked at Kaspersky,
--OpenAI unveils AI-powered red teaming tool,
--Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s food supply chain,
--Qantas cleared after social-engineeri…

Hackers post alleged blueprints and supplier data from India nuclear project
TfL hackers sentenced to 5½ years in prison, Hacking suspect once worked at Kaspersky, OpenAI unveils AI-powered red teaming tool, Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s food supply chain, Qantas cleared after social-engineering breach, Health provider criticized for delayed breach disclosure, much more

One morning, when Kascitcana awoke from a nightmare of religious authoritarianism, they found themselves transformed into an enormous cockroach. They were covered in armour. They could fly. They could digest anything, and infect the body politic with revolutionary ideas. Like the gods, they had many arms and legs! It was wonderful!!!!!
#India

Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic (Supreeth Koundinya/AIM)
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news/tailwind-joins-shopify-will…

AIM — India's Leading AI & Data Science Media Platform
India's Leading AI & Data Science Media Platform

India calls JD Vance's comments about immigrants 'deeply offensive' (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/india-us-immigration-h1b-visa.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/261009/p108#a261009p108

People are rightfully condemning the Trump administration's despicable deal for diesel with Russia.
The part I don't get is: Ukraine's drone attacks on Russian refineries have proven so successful Russia had to resort to importing fuel from India. So how are they going to produce the diesel to salvage their asset Trump's midterm prospects? I suspect the diesel will never be delivered and it's all a huge market manipulation.

aus der reihe "freude über zitierungen von artikeln von mir" heute #EmbeddedLibrarians:
"Do Academic Librarians Possess the Necessary Competencies to Execute Embedded Librarianship? A Survey of Librarians’ Practicing in College Libraries in West Bengal, India"

"Introduced fish thrive amid Kasmir’s freshwater habitat degradation"
#India #Fish #Animals

Introduced fish thrive amid Kasmir’s freshwater habitat degradation
Native fish in the lakes and rivers of India’s Kashmir Valley are under increasing pressure from pollution, habitat loss, dam construction and other human activities, a recent review finds. These same threats are also likely giving exotic fish introduced to these freshwater habitats an edge, researchers say. “Our indigenous fishes are becoming vulnerable, endangered and […]

India plans to invest up to $25B in its nascent deep tech industry, as it looks to catch up with the US and China, after investing $11.6B over the past decade (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/india-investment-billions-tech-ai-us-china.html…

India readies $25 billion for Deep Tech investment as U.S. and China race ahead
In a bid to cut its reliance on foreign tech, India tries to catch up with China and the U.S. by readying an investment of $25 billion in Deep Tech startups.

JioHotstar, India's biggest streamer, launches in the Middle East and North Africa in partnership with Abu Dhabi-based StarzPlay (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jiohotstar-middle-east-north-africa-starzplay-12368999…

India's JioHotstar Enters Middle East and North Africa via Starzplay
Indian streamer JioHotstar launches in MENA through Starzplay.

It's almost as if pest control is being aimed at the farmers themselves.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/50-per-cent-world-farmers-poisoned-pesticides-every-year-experts?CMP=S…

Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities

So, I can't eat any fresh greens when I #travel home to #America next week?
This is the type of advice I used to get when traveling to places like #India or

India's Global Capability Centers, which employ 2.4M people across companies like JPMorgan, are automating entry-level tasks and hiring far fewer graduates (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-07/ai-cro…

From Sputnik to Starship - estimating the experience curve of #SpaceLaunch technology: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/7/pgag217/8732400?login=false -> For more than 60 years, the cost of transporting payload into space has been falling: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Transport-of-payload-into-space-SpaceX-as-the-East-India-Company-of-our-time-11365594.html - according to an analysis, there is no comparable development in history.

OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/openai-to-start-sho…

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India | TechCrunch
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/india-is-starting-to-pa…

India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them | TechCrunch
India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

A tragedy - and at the end of the article, this: "The Himalayan region, which spans Nepal, India, China and Bhutan, is particularly vulnerable to floods and landslides because it is warming faster than the rest of the world as a result of the climate crisis. Research shows that extreme weather events such as heatwaves and torrential rains have become more frequent."
Yes, there is a #ClimateCrisis

Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border leave scores dead and hundreds missing
More than 380 tourists among those unaccounted for after homes, roads, bridges and power plants swept away

A tragedy - and at the end of the article, this: "The Himalayan region, which spans Nepal, India, China and Bhutan, is particularly vulnerable to floods and landslides because it is warming faster than the rest of the world as a result of the climate crisis. Research shows that extreme weather events such as heatwaves and torrential rains have become more frequent."
Yes, there is a #ClimateCrisis

Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border leave scores dead and hundreds missing
More than 380 tourists among those unaccounted for after homes, roads, bridges and power plants swept away

The Himalayas are melting faster - and India's economy is 'at risk' #India

Nepal floods: The Himalayas are melting faster - and India's economy is 'at risk'
A new report warns Himalayan glaciers are melting faster, threatening India’s water, economy and communities.

In August 2015, the NGT directed India's  Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ensure no disinfectant fumigation is carried out in a plane while a person is sitting inside. 
The direction came in response to a plea that contended the spraying of chemicals like phenothrin to counter the mosquito menace was injurious to health
as their use carries the risk of cancer and auto-immune diseases like lupus, Parkinson’s disease, and memory loss.
Agreeing with the plea f…

Why IndiGo's pest control methods for planes don't fly with India's health
The airlines has urged the NGT to let it spray pesticides while passengers are on board.

Apple Pay launches in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch (Dhruv Mohan/The Economic Times)
https://

Apple Pay launches in India: iPhone XR and later supported, Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey on why now
Apple Pay has finally launched in India, more than a decade after its US debut. The service is initially available on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch for eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cards, allowing users to make contactless payments and pay on apps and websites. Apple says it views Apple Pay as complementary to UPI, while highlighting convenience, privacy and security as key features.

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into
use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather
which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
-- Mark Twain

"Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest"
#Barclays #Finance #Environment

Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest
Bangladeshi complainants allege Rampal power station’s pollution and climate risks threaten the Sunderbans, a world heritage site

Judge grants DOJ's request to dismiss charges against billionaire Adani, but sharply criticizes DOJ officials (Sarah N. Lynch/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-doj-gautam-adani-india-trump-administration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p115#a260810p115

Popular creators are increasingly hiring remote video editors from countries like India and the Philippines, paying anywhere from $30/hour to $100K full-time (Andrew Zucker/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Top Creators’ Secret Weapon? Indian Video Editors
Popular social media influencers are increasingly looking overseas to turn their raw videos into addictive content, and not because it's cheaper.

@… @… not so simple. Meta employs plenty of Indians in software development, just not in India for fear of government interference, but in London or California instead.

Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subscription exclusive to India, its third-largest market, priced below its standard $20 Pro monthly subscription (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/curs

Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing | TechCrunch
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.

OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/openai-to-start-sho…

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India | TechCrunch
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Radio Park, Udupi India. #SilentSunday
#photography #park #India #tower #octagon

Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/17/india-disasters-heatwaves-slum-diaries-delhi-vulnerable-temperatures

India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-relaxe…

India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M MAUs in India (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/reliances-jiohotstar-ta…

Reliance's JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports | TechCrunch
JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.

"Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find"
#Environment #Pesticides #Environment

Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities

Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/meta

Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunch
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

The Cockroach Janta party (CJP)
might have started out as an online joke, but
– driven by millions of discontented young people in India
– it has swiftly grown into one of the most unexpected challenges to the powerful rightwing government of Narendra Modi.
The CJP was founded in May by Abhijeet Dipke, 30,
an Indian national who recently graduated from university in the US.
Enraged to hear comments made by the chief justice of India,
who compared the…

Who are India’s Cockroach Janta party and why are they staging protests?
Explosion of anger over education system and youth unemployment has led to movement’s rapid rise

AP union: the AP is cutting 20 US video production staff to move the jobs to India; 10 US photo editors and 10 UK video production staff are targeted for cuts (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/ap-cuts-us-video…

AP cuts US video production staff and moves jobs to India - Poynter
The union representing the laid-off staff says the move raises concerns about the quality of future coverage

Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-

"India adds 6.6 GW of rooftop solar in H1"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

India adds 6.6 GW of rooftop solar in H1 - pv magazine Global
Q2 installations reached 3.8 GW, up 41% quarter-on-quarter and 136% year-on-year

A Japanese man's ordeal in India after he rage-hit someone. The story takes weird turns.
#India #Bangalore #Japan #immigration #ordeal

Source: Apple passed $10B in annual sales in India for the first time in FY 2026, up from $9B in 2024-25 and $6B in 2022-23, as it expands its retail footprint (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/apple-pay-eyes-india-rollout-with-…

Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/nepal-floods-highlight-growing-glacier-risks-in-warming-himalayas/

Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Scientists say a deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was likely caused by a glacier chunk breaking off and temporarily damming a river. This may have led to a surge of water downstream, killing at least 353 people and leaving over 1,300 missing. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude […]

India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protesters amid internet blackouts (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/24/indi…

India orders takedown of Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin-linked messaging app Bitchat
The order targets Bitchat, an offline Bluetooth mesh app built to relay encrypted messages and bitcoin transactions, as 'Cockroach Janta Party' protesters in Delhi use mesh tools to communicate through internet shutdowns.

"Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge"
#India #Energy #Emissions

Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge - Carbon Brief
A surge in clean energy has kept carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in check across India’s power sector, with no growth from the first half of 2024 to the same period in 2026.

The Nepalese government has requested
“specific and specialised assistance” from neighbouring countries
to aid search and rescue efforts.
This includes assistance with opening tunnels where people are trapped,
technologies that can help locate people alive in affected areas,
rapid forensic and DNA analysis,
and mortuary facilities for the proper storage of bodies, Nepal’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.
It added: “An 11-member specia…

Nepal-Tibet floods: Nepal calls for technical support for rescue efforts as number of missing rises to nearly 3,000 – latest updates
Nepali government says India and China are sending expert tunnel rescue teams, as minister estimates cost of rebuilding could be billions of dollars

India proposes extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers, something Apple had lobbied for (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-con…

Wonderful #experience yesterday at Mantralaya #India. Skipping personal details, participated in the evening processions (1), then sat mere feet from the "brindaawana" (2, shrine) of Shree Raaghawaendra Swami during final service. 🙇‍♂️
Plus, good food. 😋
PS: Pic 1 is mine; 2 is official release (not mine)
#travel #ama

India's UPI, which has been free for merchants, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 in a major shift (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/indi

India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network | TechCrunch
India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.

As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z (Akriti Sharma/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07…

India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M MAUs in India (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/reliances-jiohotstar-ta…

Reliance's JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports | TechCrunch
JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.

Versant's CNBC is shutting down its Hong Kong office and scrapping some daily live shows, including Inside India, The China Connection, and Europe Early Edition (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-03…

India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a "one-way exchange" that is "anti-competitive" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/indi

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos | TechCrunch
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

I've 884 pics from Aug. 2024 alone from #India visit. Already reviewed most of them but dropping a third would still leave me 583. At least a half of those are worth publicly sharing, but I doubt I'll ever get around to sharing even 100.
So much beauty will stay unshared. 😥
#photography #dilemma

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/porsche-inks-billion-ai-deal-india-it-tcs.…

Porsche inks $1.5 billion deal for AI deployment with India’s largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy
Indian IT services giant TCS has secured a $1.5 billion contract to deploy AI for German sports carmaker Porsche.

More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño in the next six months, according to estimates by climate scientists.
The toll is on top of the early deaths resulting from temperatures already driven up by the climate crisis.
It will strike across the globe, from Indonesia to India, and Nigeria to the US.
Many further deaths are expected from the droughts, wildfires and flooding that El Niños bring.
The heat deaths h…

Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to more than $480M (Mars W. Mosqueda Jr/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/ai-startup-acrab-raises-130m-in-ver…

AI startup Acrab raises $130m in Vertex-backed Series B funding
The round was backed by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India and Vertex Growth.

The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way' #environment

The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way'
In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future," a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world's nations to unite to combat climate change.

"Five orangutans found in India face long road back home to Indonesia"
#Indonesia #India #Orangutans #Animals

Five orangutans found in India face long road back home to Indonesia
ACEH, Indonesia — The five infant orangutans found roaming a woodland in India’s Odisha state earlier this month may have been trafficked across several international borders — and now face a long journey home through the different legal and bureaucratic systems of India and Indonesia, conservationists say. “This starts with hunting in the wild, separating […]

How India's circulating libraries, privately run businesses that charge a subscription and a fee for each book, are filling gaps left by public libraries (Akanksha Singh/Bloomberg)

Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B (Vallari Sanzgiri/The Hindu BusinessLine)
https://www.thehindubusi…

Jio Platforms gets SEBI nod for biggest IPO listing of around ₹37,700 crore
Jio Platforms secures SEBI approval for a ₹37,700 crore IPO, boosting investor confidence with strong cash flows and debt repayment plans.

Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Uber, Rapido held talks to combine India ops; deal collapsed over control: sources
Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May, sources told us. Talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure. Uber sought to combine operations with Rapido running the combined entity while Rapido countered with an acquisition proposal which Uber rejected. The failed merger highlights intense competition in India's mobility market.

Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (Moneycontrol)
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Official doc: India's Serious Fraud Office urges the government to probe Xiaomi over alleged business model irregularities and foreign investment law violations (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
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As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z (Akriti Sharma/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07…

India's food regulator initiates penal action against Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy Instamart, Bigbasket, and Zepto over alleged misbranding and misleading claims (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-23/a…

Lumikai: micro-drama revenues in India reached ~$300M in 2025, as the format's growing popularity creates new work for actors, technicians, and producers (Chris Kay/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/407e49d0-933d-4998-8a5a-b190c82dc45c

Netflix strikes a global content deal for preschool content from ChuChu TV, which began creating YouTube content from Chennai, India, and has 180M subscribers (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/netflix-chuchu-tv-global-acquisition-1237109175…

Netflix Signs Global Deal For Preschool Content From ChuChu TV
Netflix has signed a global deal for content from Indian preschool brand ChuChu TV.

ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (Anup Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Indian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/indi

India's Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation | TechCrunch
"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."

At India's Semicon, Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for global investors, drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam for billions in investment (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
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Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent Wingtech (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
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Amazon says its India quick delivery service, Amazon Now, crossed $1B in annualized gross revenue, with orders doubling QoQ since its launch in summer 2025 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021, which attracted investments from companies like Micron (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/indias-airbound-b…

India's Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones | TechCrunch
Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Valley investor Lachy Groom.

Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/two-

Two years after launch, Walmart's Flipkart is closing in on India's quick-commerce leaders | TechCrunch
Flipkart's quick-commerce venture is delivering 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, nearly triple its November volume.

Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/tata-g…

Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions (Lauly Li/Nikkei Asia)
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Exclusive: Google plans to stop making Pixel products in China in 2027
US tech giant shifts to Vietnam, India as it aims to increase smartphone shipments