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Vithya Ramraj set a national record for bronze, and India are on 41 medals

Gulveer Singh's second medal, Esha Singh's third, and a kurash bronze that is only India's third ever.

28 Sep 2026 4:20 pm
Jaishankar tells the UN it is in a state of crisis, and frames the problem as fuel, food, fertiliser and finance

A reform speech India has made for twenty years, into a year that argues for it. The sharper line came a day earlier, at a press briefing.

26 Sep 2026 8:30 pm
Drishyam: The Conclusion lands on 2 October, and for the first time there is no Malayalam original

Ajay Devgn back as Vijay Salgaonkar, with Jaideep Ahlawat added. An original script means no safety net.

23 Sep 2026 6:34 pm
Hanuman Ansh is in 2026

Rs 366.45 crore worldwide against a Rs 1.8 crore budget. Two films describing the same year from opposite ends.

23 Sep 2026 6:25 pm
The iPhone 18 Pro is on sale in India, and the top configuration costs Rs 3,29,900

Queues in Delhi, Noida, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Everyone in them could have had it delivered.

21 Sep 2026 6:25 am
India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 is a 13.5 billion dollar programme, up from 8 billion

Twelve chip projects approved and Rs 1 lakh crore in commitments. The number nobody announces is yield.

21 Sep 2026 6:15 am
Jet fuel is up 5.46 percent and airlines are cutting flights before the festive rush

ATF at Rs 121.28 a litre after a second straight monthly hike. What it means if you are booking for Navratri and Diwali.

16 Sep 2026 2:10 am
Miley Cyrus, Anthrax and Tom Morello share a September, and India mostly streams it

178 million listeners, 8 percent paying. That gap is why touring routings still skip the market.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
Indian startups have raised 16.3 billion dollars in 2026, up just under 7 percent

Roughly the same number of rounds carrying more money. Good market for revenue, hard one for a deck.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
Mirzapur: The Movie holds to Rs 184.70 crore net by day ten

A strong second weekend, and proof the streaming-to-theatre jump can work when the audience was already there.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
A well-run summit is not the same thing as leadership

India convened BRICS impressively. It did not set its agenda, and the two are being conflated.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
Sixteen releases in thirty days, and platforms have stopped avoiding each other

Kareena Kapoor's Daayra, Alia Bhatt's Don't Be Shy and The Paradise lead a month with no gaps.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
Hanuman Ansh took Rs 22.5 crore on day 38, and out-earned a two-star new release

A Rs 2 crore film is still leading the box office in its sixth week.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
SEMICON India opens Wednesday, and only one of its six focus areas is a fab

Design, equipment, materials, packaging, R&D and talent. The widening is the point.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
Indian chip startups have raised 1.4 billion dollars, half of it since 2025

The curve matters more than the total. Karnataka leads on tape-outs, which is the honest measure.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
Markets reopen after Ganesh Chaturthi into a worse energy picture than they left

Crude above 100 dollars with its bypass route now shut, the rupee past 95, and yields firming.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
Five mainboard IPOs open in one week as companies stop waiting for a better market

Hero Motors, SS Retail, Jindal Supreme and Sonaselection join the NSE issue.

15 Sep 2026 12:27 am
Last Seen and The Paper land in a week Indian viewers already had four titles to choose from

The real competition for a streaming premiere is the back catalogue a subscriber already pays for.

11 Sep 2026 11:03 pm
Fall 2: Deadpoint strands its cast 5,000 feet up, in a year owned by two giants

The Spierig Brothers thriller opens while Spider-Man and The Odyssey carry 2026 between them.

11 Sep 2026 11:03 pm
178 million Indians stream music. Only 8 percent pay for it.

The paid base is growing 37 percent a year, from a very small number.

11 Sep 2026 11:03 pm
Mirzapur: The Movie crosses Rs 200 crore worldwide in its first week

The streaming-to-theatre jump worked, and every service with a three-season show is now watching.

11 Sep 2026 11:03 pm
Haiwaan puts Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan on the same screen

The film released on September 11, into a week already crowded with streaming premieres.

11 Sep 2026 11:03 pm
Manika Plastech opens, Steamhouse closes, and the Sensex claws back 622 points

Two small issues in the market, and a word of caution about what the grey market premium actually tells you.

11 Sep 2026 11:03 pm
NSE sets IPO price band at Rs 1,700-1,785, issue opens September 17

The exchange that hosts almost all Indian equity trading is coming to the market itself.

11 Sep 2026 11:03 pm
India beat Bangladesh by 40 runs to reach a record tenth Women

Shafali Verma's fifty and a late Deepti Sharma burst carried India to 149 in Dubai.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
Chumbak lands on Netflix as three Hindi titles crowd a single streaming week

Ghamasaan and Ali Baba Aur 40 Bhoot follow on September 11, on two other platforms.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
Xflow ties up with HSBC as Sarvam

A day of Indian startup news weighted towards infrastructure: payments, voice AI, lending and security.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
UPI gets tap-and-pay, and NPCI starts building a registry for AI payment agents

One change removes a few seconds from checkout. The other decides how software is allowed to spend your money.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
Rupee slips to 95.47 as the 10-year yield firms to 6.978

A falling currency and a rising bond yield are the same story told twice.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
Sensex snaps three-day slide, closes 138 points higher at 74,903

Banking and financial services led a late recovery, with domestic flows doing the work.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
Brent tops 100 dollars as Houthis seize Red Sea port and US-Iran war enters seventh month

Pressure at both ends of the route that carries the world's seaborne energy, and India is on the wrong side of it.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
Supreme Court asks CBSE to consider relief for Class 6 on three-language policy

A bench led by CJI Surya Kant asked the Solicitor General to examine an accommodation for the current batch.

11 Sep 2026 12:02 am
What actually moves the needle in preventive health

Four unglamorous variables account for most of the modifiable risk in lifestyle disease.

9 Sep 2026 10:33 pm
Sleep is the most under-rated variable in Indian urban health

It is treated as time to be traded away, and the trade is expensive.

9 Sep 2026 10:33 pm
How to tell a real Ayurveda retreat from a spa with a menu

Wellness tourism is growing fast, and the label is doing a lot of unearned work.

9 Sep 2026 10:33 pm
Monsoon travel in India: where the rain is the reason to go

The off-season is cheaper, emptier and, in the right places, better.

9 Sep 2026 10:33 pm
What actually makes long-distance relationships work

The couples who manage it are not the ones who talk the most.

9 Sep 2026 10:33 pm
The money conversation most couples put off too long

Financial incompatibility is rarely about income. It is about assumptions nobody stated.

9 Sep 2026 10:33 pm
Why friendship gets harder in your thirties

The structures that used to produce friends quietly disappear, and nothing replaces them automatically.

9 Sep 2026 10:33 pm
Bridal lehengas in 2026: lighter, longer, less embellished

Fluid cuts in chiffon, organza and silk-linen are replacing dense sequin work.

9 Sep 2026 10:32 pm
Red is no longer the default bridal colour

Rose gold, ivory, pistachio green and dusty pastels are taking a real share of the 2026 season.

9 Sep 2026 10:32 pm
Skinimalism has reshaped Indian bridal makeup

Dewy, lighter bases are replacing heavy coverage, and the category has grown around 40% on that shift.

9 Sep 2026 10:32 pm
Sanjeevani 2026 wellness expo wraps up at Bharat Mandapam

The three-day international health and wellness exhibition ran in New Delhi from September 7 to 9.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm
Deepika Padukone is the first Indian actress named to the Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce named her among the 2026 inductees in the Motion Pictures category.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm
Ghamasaan arrives in theatres on September 11

The Hindi release lands mid-week in a September calendar that is unusually crowded across languages.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm
Indian startups raised $277 million across 22 rounds in the first week of September

Space tech, healthtech, fintech, D2C, battery swapping and enterprise AI all featured in a broad opening week.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm
QNu Labs raises Rs 200 crore for quantum-safe security as three deals close in a day

Quantum cybersecurity, fleet management and alco-bev all saw rounds close on September 9, with the National Quantum Mission and Uber among the backers.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm
Pixxel raises $100 million Series C, becoming India

The round, co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, takes the hyperspectral imaging company to $195 million raised in total.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm
Six mainboard IPOs open for subscription, Rentomojo leads with Rs 1,256 crore issue

The primary market stayed busy even as secondary market sentiment softened.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm
Sensex ends 0.7% lower at 75,577 as energy costs weigh on sentiment

A second straight session of losses, with IT counters leading the decline and Coforge falling sharply after its chairman resigned.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm