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🤯 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.

H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they're stuck. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/19/india-h1b-visas-skilled-workers-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY2MTIwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3NTAyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjYxMjA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImE3Njk1YmFmLTNiM2QtNGQ5Ni04OTE3LWJiMmFkNzU3YTM1OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDI1LzEyLzE5L2luZGlhLWgxYi12aXNhcy1za2lsbGVkLXdvcmtlcnMtdHJ1bXAvIn0.7XPxQsfVwzgDIBZS-Db4ciXuH7Gzv45PvyNhNx62va0&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p56#a251219p56

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

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Nuyorican Soul feat. India:
🎵 Runaway
#NowPlaying #NuyoricanSoul #India
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fD0zrdZGahQMYmjPMUp5W
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Jianbo:
🎵 Everything For Family
#Jianbo
https://jianbo.bandcamp.com/track/exhale-point-hill-feat-india-blue

@… I *should* visit India! Non-pedestrian traffic is overrated anyway 😅

What a parachute test for a future crewed space system - India's #Gaganyaan - looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnd5jzvTHSU (see https://www.isro.gov.in/Gaganyaan_Drogue_Parachute_Deployment_Tests.html for context).

Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year,
claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India,
“or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger.
Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.

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.

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

Family says Indiana hospital discharged mom in labor, leading to roadside birth - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-indiana-hospital-discharged-mom-labor-leading-roadside/story

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

"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.

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.

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.

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 18. Dezember 2021 führte #Indien vor der Küste von Odisha in Balasore erfolgreich den zweiten Test seiner Agni-P durch, einer ballistischen #Mittelstreckenrakete mit nuklearer Fähigkeit.

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…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/
Omg
Hackers steal maternity ward CCTV videos in India cybercrime

"Like herding cats" in the English world (and may be elsewhere).
"Like weighing frogs" in Kannada (and may be other languages in India).
#saying #English #Kannada #India #impossibleThings #coordination

Massive Fire Breaks Out At 1500-Year-Old Temple In China, Destroys Multi-Storey Pavilion:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/on-camera-massive-fire-breaks-out-at-1500-year-ol…

OK, boomer.

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.

"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, […]

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…

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

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

Cities in India, Kenya, Myanmar, and the Philippines are showing us how to build climate resilience the right way—from the ground up.
Communities are leading nature-based solutions to manage flooding, protect water resources, and create greener urban spaces. The key? Putting marginalized voices at the center of policy decisions that affect their lives.

Strengthening urban resilience through collaboration: lessons from India, Kenya, Myanmar and the Philippines
IIED and partners spotlight urban community-driven solutions across four countries

RE: https://flipboard.com/@timesofindia_/times-of-india-bsl3e3p0z/-/a-W1RnrozcTrGGNVRufqJUdw:a:3972488315-/0
Nou, het is in ieder geval duidelijk nu dat het Trump helemaal niet om drugs te do…

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.

An #India-#Japan alliance could prove monumental for the #solar industry. The International Solar Festival at the #OsakaExpo…

I love a good news story about agrivoltaics (farming under solar panels) - let's hope it does take off! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2en1yyp4d9o

Will farming under solar panels take off?
Farming under solar panels is still in the early stages in India, but will it catch on?

> 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.

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.

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

Women's inheritance rights reforms and impact on women's empowerment: evidence from India
Minali Grover, Ajay Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10437 https://

Women's inheritance rights reforms and impact on women's empowerment: evidence from India
This paper explores the influence of inheritance rights on women' empowerment in India. We employ the quasi-natural experiment framework wherein; five states amended the Hindu Succession Act (HSA) from 1976 to 1994 before it was federally amended in 2005. Further, we apply difference-in-difference (DID) strategy and consider triangulation approach to identify women empowerment indicators namely: access to resources, agency, and outcomes to measure varying dimensions of empowerment. Using the In…

India backs off mandatory 'cyber safety' app after surveillance backlash https://therecord.media/india-drops-mandate-sanchar-saathi-app-privacy-surveillance

New study by @… et al. finds that emissions in China and India are projected to grow much less in 2025 compared to the past decade, while emissions in the US and EU are projected to grow this year after years of decline.

Trump's H-1B Visa Crackdown to Accelerate Wall Street's Expansion in India (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-11/trump-s-h-1b-visa-curbs-banks-to-add-more-finance-specialist-jobs-in-india
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p116#a251111p116

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

It annoys me that replacing my IKEA "Högmodig" coffee carafe is possible, but only if I'm willing to travel to Dubai or India (but nowhere in Europe or America)

Scammers are using a supposed 19-minute sex video to install banking malware and it's gone viral.
https://zeenews.india.com/viral/scam-alert-viral-19-minute-video-malware-link-bank-account-2991795.html

Viral 19-Minute Video Link Is Malware Designed To Steal Your Bank Balance | Heres How
Cyber criminals are using the trending 19-Minute Video link on Instagram and X to deploy malware and steal your banking credentials. 

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…

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

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

I've high confidence this parlor does *not* misspell tattoos. 😉
(Aug. 17, #Mysore #India)
#signs #travel #tattoos #spelling #business

Heute vor 23 Jahren: Am 17. November 2002 kam es in einer Kernbrennstoffanlage für #Uranoxid-Brennstoff in Hyderabad, Indien zu einer Explosion einer Thermosiphon-Verdampfereinheit. 100 Liter Lösung (100g Uran/Liter) wurden dabei im Gebäude freigesetzt.

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.

India is world’s second-largest shrimp producer. That is now under threat | Trade War News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/11/8/india-is-worlds-second-largest-shrimp-producer-that-is-now-under-threat?traffic_source=rss

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

India faces backlash over government cyber safety app mandate https://therecord.media/india-faces-backlash-cyber-safety-app-mandate

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.

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 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.

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.

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)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/google-to-invest-15b-in-indian-…

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.

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 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

Happy Saturday morning! Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Southeast Asian economies are becoming dependent on cyberscams,
--Cybercriminals are inflicting pain throughout India,
--Mr Deepfakes damaged people beyond the reach of the law,
--Soaring sales of Starlink are creating…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 11/29/25
Southeast Asian economies are becoming dependent on cyberscams, Cybercriminals are inflicting pain throughout India, Mr Deepfakes damaged people beyond the reach of the law, Soaring sales of Starlink are creating risks around the globe, Digital opsec for teens made easy

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)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

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.

Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-vibes-ai-internal-…

Internal documents show how many people are using Meta's Vibes AI feed each day
The documents show Meta Vibes' daily usage and global growth trends, highlighting user engagement in India, Brazil, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

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

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.

Justice on hold: India court crippled by a million-case backlog
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-hold-india-court-crippled-235801345.html

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.

India asks US to allow purchase of Iranian oil to offset Russian imports, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/26/india-asks-us-to-allow.html

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.

TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Techtonic shift: GCCs hiring 4x faster than IT cos now
GCCs are expanding headcount by 18-27% year on year, compared with 4-6% for IT services, according to data from staffing firm TeamLease Digital. Together, they employ nearly 2 million people now, up from 1.2 million in 2022, creating about 300,000 jobs annually. In contrast, IT services have added only 25,000-40,000 employees a year on a net basis during this period.

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

Ukrainian "long-range sanctions"! China and India reject Russian oil: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/180048.html

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 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…

India’s short-sighted embrace of Russia will endanger its own national security: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/indias-shortsighted-embrace-of-russia.html

Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raised $450M from Goodwater, General Catalyst, and others at a $7B valuation, as it prepares for an IPO (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A look at India's $18.2B chipmaking push, with 10 projects across six states to cut import reliance, as experts question if talent and investment are enough (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/india-is-bett…

India is betting $18 billion to build a chip powerhouse. Here’s what it means
India dreams of being self-sufficient in terms of semiconductors has seen it invest heavily to attract global chip companies. But success has been uneven.

Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatime…

Uber enters B2B logistics with Uber Direct on ONDC, onboards Zepto, KPN Farm fresh
Uber is broadening its B2B logistics portfolio in India with the introduction of Uber Direct, in partnership with ONDC. Kicking off with grocery deliveries for allies like Zepto, the service plans to branch out to popular food chains, including KFC and Burger King.

Google plans to invest $10B to build a new 1GW data center cluster near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India, with operations expected to begin by July 2028 (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/snippets/google-to-invest-10-bn-in…

Google to invest $10 Bn in Visakhapatnam data centre cluster
Google is planning a massive push in India by investing $10 billion to build a new data centre cluster in and around Visakhapatnam. The project will include three campuses. Snippets

The $100K H-1B fee could accelerate offshoring as tech companies route work to India and other countries rather than bringing engineers to the US (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/100-000-dollar-visa-india

A Protectionist's Gift To India
A $100,000 headfake.

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374683/coinbase-invests-coindcx

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.

Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho opened up 54% in its stock market debut, giving the company a ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/m…

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.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in Indonesia for ~$4.50 per month, expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan after debuting it in India in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/after-india-openai-l…

After India, OpenAI launches its affordable ChatGPT Go plan in Indonesia | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Go in Indonesia to compete with Google AI Plus plan.

Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest ever Asia investment, after meeting with Modi (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

OpenAI, Alphabet, and Perplexity offering free access to their paid tiers in India suggests the country may be the biggest and safest bet for broad AI adoption (Mihir Sharma/Bloomberg)

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical adviser (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/nvid

NVIDIA, Qualcomm join U.S., Indian VCs to help build India's next deep tech startups | TechCrunch
Qualcomm Ventures has joined six Indian venture firms, collectively adding more than $850 million to boost India’s deep-tech ecosystem.

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.

Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Indian investment app Groww raised ~$748M in its Indian IPO, closing up 29% and giving it a ~$9B market cap; Groww is the first Indian YC-backed startup to IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/groww-rais…

Groww raises nearly $750M in IPO as India's retail investing boom continues | TechCrunch
The company's shares opened 12% above their issue price, at ₹112, and closed at ₹128.85, lending it a market cap of ₹795 billion (approximately $9 billion).

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.

After a backlash, India says its pre-installed cybersecurity app is optional for users, who "have complete freedom to activate, or delete the app at any time" (Shruti Srivastava/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

An Indian court dismisses X's March lawsuit challenging the government's content takedown orders, ruling foreign platforms can't invoke free speech protections (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/indi

India court rejects X's "free speech" argument, backs government takedown powers | TechCrunch
X sued the Indian government in March over content takedown orders issued through its centralized portal.

Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K downloads in Sept. (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian

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

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.

Amazon will invest $35B in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the ~$40B it has invested in the country, and says the plan will create 1M more jobs (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/amazon-ple

Amazon pledges a massive $35 billion worth of investments in India’s AI space through 2030
Amazon has committed to investing $$35 billion in India’s cloud and AI space by 2030, as hyperscalers race to get a foothold in the market.

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<…

UK-based Tide, a neobank used by 1.6M micro and small enterprises, half of them in India, raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/21/powered-by-indias-small-busin…

Powered by India's small businesses, UK fintech Tide becomes a TPG-backed unicorn | TechCrunch
Tide serves over 1.6 million micro and small enterprises globally, with more than half of them based in India.