This Week in Tech India

The NPCI - the parent organization of UPI - is set to announce Unified Agent Protocol, which when rolled out will allow your AI agent to make limited UPI payments on your behalf. As in, your AI will actually be able to...

This week we have ChatGPT showing ads, ISRO won't make launch vehicles, TCS installs employee surveillance tools, and more. But. We start with good news - a decline in the number and amounts of investments into data...

Jio launches Jio Prime - which is similar to Amazon Prime in one way - it offers little value while pretending to offer a lot of value. In other news, AI-ready data centers’ mindless expansion in India continues, and it...

I recorded this podcast on Monday, August 10th. And on Tuesday, August 11th, the data center protests in Visakhpatnam against Google and Amazon’s investment erupted. I’m not sure whether to be proud or terrified of...

This is Episode 31 of 2026 - your favorite weekly tech India news roundup! Adani tries to overtake Ambani in investing (or promising to invest) massively in building AI ready data centres in India. His latest promise...

At the time of posting this, Sonam Wangchuk just ended his hunger strike after assurances from the Government, which included one massive selfie video from the Prime Minister. But don’t forget about the OTHER important...

In this episode - jobseekers are actually a very vulnerable group of people. And to take advantage of them, link Naukri did, is very unfortunate. 0:00:23 Why Naukri is a b*tch 0:07:48 Headlines: Bike Taxis, Google’s...

In this episode - Meta proves yet again it does not care about the safety of its users, particularly children and teenagers. And we’re not talking about usernames here. 0:00:23: WhatsApp’s failing username experiment...

Apple has increased the prices of most of its products globally, citing the “Ram-ageddon”. While this was expected, what is shocking is how disproportionately and unfairly those prices have been increased for Indian...

Telegram’s temporary ban has still not been lifted - as on date of this episode’s publishing - even after the NEET re-examination. But soon we are going to forget all about the Telegram ban, because the Jio IPO is...

<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited India and achieved nothing. Literally nothing. India is more impacted by the CBSE scandal, which has gripped the education sector and has potentially affected the careers of...

<p>A Delhi startup called CarryMen offers the services of men to carry your things while you shop, and this unsurprisingly is the most popular tech news from India. Catch up on this and the most important tech news for...

<p>ED’s probe into GamesKraft has revealed more sinister things - not least of which how easy it is for companies to use tech to cheat people out of massive amounts of money. Catch up on this and the most important tech...

<p>Reliance is reportedly exploring its own LER satellite system to provide satellite internet services to remote areas in India. This is clearly to rival Starlink - which has still not launched in India after more than...

<p>Within two days Apple said two things about India - that they are “over the moon excited” for India, and that the Competition Commission of India is “overstepping its jurisdiction”. The nerve. Catch up on this and...