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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ayurveda tourism is projected to reach $10.4 billion by 2033

Mindful retreats, sleep-focused stays, non-alcoholic options and women-centric programming are reshaping what travellers book.

9 Sep 2026 9:55 pm