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India finish on 85 medals and 21 golds, fourth on the table and the second-best Games ever

Double gold in three team sports, eight golds from archery and shooting, and seven events where India had never medalled before.

4 Oct 2026 12:28 am
Aman Sehrawat won a 57kg gold India had never won, and the relay beat an Olympic medallist by half a second

11-7 in the final after a 20-0 round of 16. Kiran Pahal, Poovamma, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj ran 3:29.69.

4 Oct 2026 12:18 am
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
Banks open this Sunday, because the alternative was five straight closed days

A three-day strike starts 28 September. Currency chests stay open too, which is the detail that keeps ATMs loaded.

24 Sep 2026 11:45 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
Navratri fasting food is a full cuisine, and it has one nutritional trap

Kuttu, sabudana and samak are a developed parallel kitchen. Nine days of fried carbohydrate is not a fast.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
Nine nights of garba: what actually injures people, and what prevents it

The shoes matter more than the dancing, and nights six to nine are when the damage shows.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
The nine Navratri colours for 2026, and why last year

Orange to peacock green, 11 to 19 October. The sequence shifts every year with the calendar.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
Navratri 2026: mirror work returns, and the clothes finally got lighter

Gotta patti, cape dupattas and asymmetrical blouses lead a season correcting for how the clothes are actually used.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
Festive season opens on 11 October against a record to beat and an inflation headwind

Last year's Navratri-to-Diwali window did Rs 6.05 lakh crore. Hiring is forecast up 15 to 20 percent.

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
Airtel and Jio line up against Vi, and the alignment is the story

Two operators that compete on everything agree on how the third should be treated.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
Lenskart lifts its AjnaLens stake to 9 percent, one small cheque at a time

Rs 18.5 crore invested so far. An option on AR eyewear rather than a bet on it.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
UniqYou raises Rs 15.8 crore seed with two Myntra founders on the cap table

An AI fashion platform for women shoppers, valued at about Rs 64 crore post-money.

15 Sep 2026 5:09 pm
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