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The RBI decides at 10am tomorrow, and a hike would be the first since February 2023

25bp would take the repo rate to 5.50 percent. On a Rs 50 lakh home loan that is about Rs 800 a month, and banks will lengthen your tenure unless you ask.

6 Oct 2026 5:32 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
India beat South Korea in recurve archery, the event Korea defines, and a 17-year-old settled it

A first ever Asian Games medal in the discipline, and it is gold. Kumkum Mohod shot two tens in a crosswind.

2 Oct 2026 11:20 am
Drishyam opens to 4.5 out of 5, and the argument is about the last thirty minutes

Over Rs 20 crore in advance. The Devgn-Ahlawat scenes are the consensus; the climax is where reviewers split, and that matters here.

2 Oct 2026 11:11 am
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
Sensex falls 1,124 points to a six-month low, and all 30 constituents were red

Rs 7.5 lakh crore gone in one session. Nifty at 22,780 as Brent went back above 106 dollars.

28 Sep 2026 4:50 pm
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
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
India beat England 2.5-1.5, and Gukesh won with black

Round seven of the 46th Olympiad in Samarkand. Uzbekistan extend their lead after beating China 3-1.

24 Sep 2026 11:15 am
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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