Fishing towns brace as an early swell batters the Malabar shore
Authorities move 4,000 families inland; trawler operators count a lost fortnight.
India · Weather
Monsoon arrives early, and a parched north exhales
The India Meteorological Department says the rains crossed Delhi nine days ahead of the long-period average — the earliest onset in the capital in over a decade. Across the Gangetic plain, farmers, power planners and city engineers are recalculating in real time.
India
All IndiaData Protection Bill clears select committee after marathon session
Cross-party panel signs off with 14 amendments; floor debate expected within the fortnight.
Generic insulin price cap brings relief to nine million
Pharma lobby warns of supply strain; patients’ groups call the move long overdue.
As the heat breaks, the grid gets its first easy night in weeks
Northern demand falls sharply, buying time for coal stocks that had thinned to the bone.
World
All WorldEU agrees landmark AI liability rules after all-night talks
The bloc becomes the first to make model-makers answer for downstream harm.
Kenya’s green hydrogen bet draws Gulf and Indian capital
A Rift Valley project could reshape East African energy exports by 2030.
Japan’s population plan leans on robots and open borders
A demographic reckoning forces a rethink few in Tokyo wanted to have.
A quiet trade thaw is reshaping the Indo-Pacific supply map
Tariff carve-outs are nudging factories from one coastline to another.
Business
All BusinessSensex tops 84,000 as foreign money returns to Indian equities
A cocktail of cooling inflation, a steady rupee and the earliest monsoon in a decade has pulled global funds back to Mumbai. Analysts caution that the rally is broad but thin.
Technology
All TechISRO sets an August window for the first Gaganyaan test flight
An uncrewed capsule will rehearse the journey India hopes to make in person.
The phone that thinks: on-device models reach rural clinics
A diagnostic assistant that needs no signal is quietly changing triage.
UPI crosses 20 billion monthly transactions — what breaks next?
The rails that carry India’s money are straining under their own success.
Inside Gujarat’s first chip-packaging plant, three months in
The factory is running. Finding 5,000 trained hands is the harder part.
Ideas
All IdeasWhat a republic in a hurry forgets, and what slowing down would cost it
India built its modern self at speed. A quieter accounting — of what growth is for, and who it leaves behind — still has something exacting to say about the bill that comes due.
Culture & Sport
All CultureA new grammar of the Indian thali, one restaurant at a time
Young chefs are taking the most democratic plate in India and rewriting its rules.
The quiet rise of the regional blockbuster
Why the biggest films of the year weren’t made in Hindi — and weren’t meant to be.
India edge England by 12 runs in a Birmingham thriller
A teenage spinner turns the match in four balls no one saw coming.
The novel that maps a city by its disappearing trades
A debut from Kochi is the literary surprise of the season.