Study highlights threat posed by microplastics in Coimbatore tanks

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a "global AI commons" at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

After Naravane memoir controversy, the Indian government weighs 20-year cooling-off before publishing for senior ex-officials

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are weaponising cricket economist.com/asia/2026/02/1…

India's Reliance wins US licence for Venezuelan oil, sources say

Karnataka cabinet clears return of IPL matches to Chinnaswamy after 2025 stampede

Why don't Indians read for pleasure? www.theculturecafe.in/p/why-dont-ind…

India’s Dream to Build a Thousand Ships

2,000-year-old Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions found in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

Archaeologists discover 3,000-5,000-year-old skeletons in Karnataka’s Tekkalakota; first in over 6 decades

Viral tourism is overwhelming rural India, and villages are paying the price

Journalist Ravi Nair convicted over tweets on Adani: What the case was about

It’s All Greed and No Fear in India’s Gold, Silver Markets Right Now

A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Gig workers, who do not have legal employee status nor the political leverage, can win better conditions only through disciplined, worker-led organising – the very capacity India’s labour movement never systematically developed. scroll.in/article/1089... Sahasranshu Dash writes

India orders social media platforms to take down deepfakes faster

Inside Bengal’s SIR camps: TMC calls the shots, rivals allege intimidation

J&K unemployment hits 6.7%, nearly double the national average – and job seekers have paid ₹48 crore in application fees

Publisher Penguin Random House India, which holds the rights for Four Stars of Destiny, clarified that the book has not gone into publication, and maintained that it did not make any copies of the book public. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10906...

#BookExcerpt | On the slightest pretext of any protest, bulldozers are used to bring down the homes of ‘protestors’. This is against the Constitution of India and the laws of the land, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. scroll.in/article/1090...

India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The Slow Reveal of the India-US Trade Deal

India-US trade deal gives tariff-free access to Harley bikes, no reprieve for Tesla

Delhi biker death case: Contractor who’d dug pit came, saw and left as victim lay there for hours

Aggressive majoritarianism crippled Pakistan. Will India fare differently? scroll.in/article/109057… The merging of faith with state has not worked out well anywhere, writes Ramachandra Guha

How the Election Commission of India Tailored the Voter Registration in West Bengal “As it Deemed Fit”

WaPo terminated the contract of its Delhi bureau chief Pranshu Verma; a source says "there is no clarity if the paper will continue with its bureau in Delhi" (Aban Usmani/Newslaundry) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

India’s Cities Get Billions to Avoid the Fate of Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru

Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (Anuj Behal/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The Black Wind: How India is becoming the World's Waste Tyre Furnace

Why a textile town in Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district became the hub of illegal organ trade

Analysis: The One Nation One Ration Card system enables portability of food entitlements across states but freezes overall coverage and fiscal responsibility

Form 7 filings for deletion of names from electoral rolls spark outrage in Gujarat

India’s union government stops its funding for Jal Jeevan Mission, Rajya Sabha told

‘Merely 2-4-5 deaths’: Rajasthan Health Minister downplays cough syrup fatalities, blames ‘careless parents’

India’s Debt Diet Shifts Growth Onus to RBI, Billionaire Businesses

US cuts tariffs on India to 18%, India agrees to end Russian oil purchases

Cases under Uttarakhand’s conversion law fall in court: 7 years, 5 full trials, all 5 acquittals

Migrant waste collectors in Bengaluru lose jobs amid repeated travels for SIR; many to skip process

India Budget Picks Staid Continuity Over Ambitious Disruption

India's wealthy embrace a new luxury symbol: water www.reuters.com/sustainability… This is the business of water in a country where clean water is a privilege.

The anaemia paradox: Why south Indian girls are anaemic despite wealthy GDP

What is Nipah virus? Key things to know about the disease amid cases in India

VB-GRAMG and the Recasting of Rural Social Protection

India’s New Labour Codes Put Capital's Priorities First

India’s electric bus push has a deadly blind spot due to insufficient driver training

UGC did not defend its equity guidelines in court. But activists explain why they must be defended

Cricket nomads: Meet the jersey sellers who travel India match by match