On 29 October the Supreme Court told the RBI that banks must repay fraud victims when their own checks fail. It is not law yet. But a 2017 RBI rule already protects you, if you move within three days.
Read the full storyA cyclone is a heat engine that runs on warm seawater. Take away the sea and it starves. What it leaves behind is decided less by the wind than by how ready we are.
A chemotherapy injection that a dealer sells for ₹11,000 was billed at ₹1,30,000. On 27 October the Supreme Court called it loot. Here is how the markup works, and why the rules don't stop it.
Diamonds can be grown in a lab. Gold can't. The real fake-gold risk this Dhanteras is at the jewellery counter, and it takes two minutes to check.
The fine is invented. The vehicle number in it is not. Here's where that number comes from, and the one check that settles it.
Silver closed at half its January record on 22 October. It wasn't a scam or a collapse in demand for jewellery. It was a chain that started with crude oil.
After IDBI, the government wants to sell part of four more banks. That part isn't privatisation, and the legal cover on your deposit never depended on who owns the bank.
SBI has confirmed customer data is on the dark web. It can't open your account. It can make a stranger sound exactly like your bank.
The government has capped what middlemen can add to 137 cancer drugs. Prices should fall 20 to 70% from 9 November. Almost nobody paying for chemotherapy has heard about it.
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