A 3% dearness allowance increase from 1 July 2026 takes the rate to 63% and costs ₹10,016.10 crore a year. We ran the government’s own formula against the price index it uses: it gives 63.77%, the fraction is dropped, and across 1.17 crore people that fraction is worth about ₹2,560 crore.
Read the full story →The caption page of the federal indictment lists the counts beside each defendant’s name. Lucas faces five. Her business partner Carlton Upton Jr. faces six. The full count-by-defendant map, the eight days the document spent under seal, and what the honest services count has to prove.
The agency’s own release separates 42 million records corrected from 8.5 million it is “currently in the process of correcting”. The “nearly 50 million” headline and the “nearly 15 percent” both need the unfinished third to reach their figure.
CBDT Circular 07/2026 moved two dates, and the one that binds first is 21 October. Why the audit date followed the return date automatically, why transfer-pricing cases were never in the extension, and what the circular does not say about section 234A interest.
The barrel behind five analyst target raises for Chevron this month is costing Indian refiners money on every litre they sell. Why ICRA says ₹8 a litre and Jefferies says ₹26, and what the Delhi board would read if either were passed on.
The Justice Department confirms a judicially authorised warrant but not its target or purpose. What is on the record, what unnamed sources say, the Justice Manual’s approval rule for searching a member of Congress, and the time limits on the allegations aired in public.
About 2,000 to 2,500 people were detained in Delhi on 10 October. A day-by-day account of the week, what BNSS section 126 says a peace bond does and does not forbid, and a minister’s defence of the voter-roll deletions set against Election Commission data.
India made 249 for 5 in Ranchi and lost with nine balls left. The dropped catch that turned it, the two innings checkpoint by checkpoint, Ashwin on how Hope fed Samson, and the records from a 501-run night.
The IRS opened accounts automatically from 1 October, and a new Treasury rule lets charities give individual shares like SpaceX. Section 530A, the rule that reconciles them, and what $1,000 actually grows to by 18.
More than 20 million people on traditional Medicare get a one-time $90 this week, paid from a $2 billion fund no administration had touched. It covers 42% of this year’s Part B increase, and the payout uses about 90% of the fund.
Delhi Police had not granted permission by Wednesday, with a section 163 order in force. What is on the record, what each side claims, why only Parliament can remove a Chief Election Commissioner, and the three removal attempts so far.
The quake struck at 10:23 pm on Tuesday, about 280 km from Delhi. The NCS and USGS figures side by side, every magnitude 4+ quake near Delhi since January 2025, two wrong numbers in circulation, and the seismic-zone map that was withdrawn.
This year’s theme is the “rocket revolution”, and one American rocket flew half the world’s launches. The launch numbers by country, and every official Gaganyaan target since 2018, side by side.
The increase covers Nayara’s 7,108 pumps, about 7% of India’s outlets. PPAC’s crude data shows why it came now, after a July reversal, and what it costs at different levels of use.
Treasury began mailing $500 payments on 30 September to about 950,000 full-price HealthCare.gov buyers in 30 states. The fee behind them was 2.5% of premiums, a rate CMS itself proposed to keep for 2027 before cutting it to 1.9%.
The 2020 framework ended 20x intraday bets on shares, and it has been amended four times since. SEBI’s August 2026 data shows where the leverage went instead: options, which carry 92% of individual traders’ losses, and overnight margin loans growing 53% a year.
From 1 September 2026, every new single-holder demat account and mutual fund folio must carry a nomination or a formal opt-out declaration. This is SEBI’s second attempt at solving the same problem: the first one threatened to freeze existing accounts, was extended five times, and was withdrawn in 2024. Here is exactly what the new circular requires, who it actually applies to, and the real scale of the unclaimed-assets problem behind it.
Confirmed by the government’s own 23 June 2026 factsheet: four rules stop savers routing cash around the new £12,000 cap, and a separate tax rise on savings interest lands the same day: with the same number, 22%, used for two different things.
Friday’s proclamation runs the $100,000 payment to 21 September 2027. USCIS says it is not currently in effect, DHS says it still plans to collect if the order is lifted, and two federal judges have reached opposite answers on whether it was ever lawful.
The first revision in twelve years, notified and in force within 24 hours of Cabinet approval. ₹1,200 more out of your salary each month, ₹5,000 a month more in pension at the end of a full career, and one widely quoted cost figure that is off by a factor of ten.
Highways, tap water and UPI on one side; a campaign finance scheme struck down 5–0 by the Supreme Court, a CAG finding of fourteen-times cost overrun, and 193 investigations producing two convictions on the other. Every figure from an official or judicial source.
Alphabet raised $84.75 billion in a week, then sold a 100-year bond. New York’s comptroller puts a 25% probability on the investment stalling, and a number on what that would cost the city.
A 0.4% merchant discount rate arrives on UPI payments to merchants above ₹2,000. You pay nothing: sending money to people stays free, apps cannot add a platform fee, and the government’s FAQ says shops cannot pass the charge on to you. Here is what the merchant pays, what stays free, and the numbers worked through.
New Circana survey data shows cost has become the dominant reason people walk away from Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus and Nintendo Switch Online, and the cheapest service of the three is losing subscribers fastest.
