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Every banknote in your wallet has a hidden journey. It began as cotton or paper, passed through high-security printing presses, travelled in armoured vans, sat inside energy-hungr

Every time you open an account, apply for a loan or sign up for an investment app, you hand over the same documents again: your ID, your address proof, your photograph, sometimes

A container of auto parts leaves Chennai for Rotterdam. Before a single rupee is paid, the deal may involve a buyer's bank, a seller's bank, a shipping line, an insurer, customs a

India has already achieved something most countries only aspire to: hundreds of millions of people brought into the formal banking system in little more than a decade. But having

The phone rings. A stern voice claims to be from the police, the CBI or customs. A parcel in your name contained drugs, they say, or your Aadhaar number is linked to money launder

On 21 February 2025, attackers drained roughly $1.5 billion in Ether from one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. They did not brute-force a password or steal a laptop from a