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The IT index rose 4 percent two days after Wipro

Sensex closed at 74,729.27 with midcaps down 0.12 percent, the third session running where the index and the market parted ways. Five sessions, 2,800 points, average share flat.

17 Oct 2026 12:22 am
India made 249 and lost, as Shai Hope chased down the second-biggest total in T20I history

West Indies got 252 for 4 in 18.3 overs after Sanju Samson's 82 off 41 had looked like enough. Hope has now twice chased a total India thought was safe.

9 Oct 2026 10:40 pm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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