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The UPI fee is defensible. The way it arrived is what will cost more

Zero MDR was always going to end, and everyone in payments knew it. Announcing it late makes a transition look like a reversal.

28 Sep 2026 5:05 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
Golmaal 5 is dated for 8 January 2027, with Akshay Kumar joining and Sharman Joshi returning

Rohit Shetty takes an uncontested January window. A bet that the appetite for Hindi comedy was never gone, just unserved.

22 Sep 2026 8:27 am
Amit Shah opens the anti-narcotics conference, and the real agenda is synthetic drugs

Vision Document 2026-29, four pillars, 36 states and UTs. Precursor control is a diversion problem inside a legal industry.

22 Sep 2026 8:25 am
Murmu calls for stronger climate action as disaster frequency rises

The appeal lands in a month that argues for it. What global cooperation usually means in an Indian climate statement.

21 Sep 2026 6:45 am
Mirzapur is at Rs 297 crore worldwide, and the 300 crore mark is now a formality

Rs 207.16 crore India net by day 16, from a Rs 24.47 crore opening. A multiple of about 8.5 times.

21 Sep 2026 6:40 am
Hanuman Ansh grew 95 percent on its seventh Saturday, which almost never happens

Rs 9.75 crore on day 44, Rs 258.13 crore India net, Rs 329.30 crore worldwide. Still playing 7,119 shows.

21 Sep 2026 6:35 am
The National Film Awards leave Delhi for the first time in 72 years

Presented at Ekta Nagar in Gujarat on 22 September. Article 370 Best Feature Film, Mammootty and Kartik Aaryan share Best Actor.

21 Sep 2026 6:30 am
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
The big SEMICON commitments were not fabs, and that is the better outcome

Applied Materials 5 billion dollars, Lam Research Rs 10,000 crore, Fujifilm Rs 800 crore. Only the Micron claim is checkable in a year.

21 Sep 2026 6:20 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
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
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
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
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
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
The RBI is right to hold. That will not stay comfortable.

Rates cannot make crude cheaper. But if oil stays above 100 dollars, supply-side stops being a description and becomes an excuse.

10 Sep 2026 6:20 pm
Apple launches the iPhone Duo, its first foldable, at $1,999

The book-fold device pairs a 5.5-inch cover screen with a 7.8-inch inner display. India pre-orders open on October 16.

10 Sep 2026 7:58 am
iPhone 18 Pro brings a variable-aperture camera and Apple

India pricing starts at Rs 1,64,900, with pre-orders from September 12 and sales from September 18.

10 Sep 2026 7:58 am
Apple skipped the standard iPhone 18

The base model moves to spring 2027, leaving September as a premium-only event. For India, the volume phone is the one that is late.

10 Sep 2026 7:58 am
John Ternus led his first Apple keynote

The new chief executive took over from Tim Cook on September 1, ending a fifteen-year run.

10 Sep 2026 7:58 am
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
West Indies to tour India from September 27 for three ODIs and five T20Is

The Caribbean side arrives for an eight-match white-ball tour running through to mid-October.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm