Technology

India’s Voice AI Revolution: How Indian Languages Are Shaping AI

India Teaches AI to Listen: The Race to Build a Voice-First Digital India From Hindi and Hinglish to Marathi, Tamil and dozens of less-represented languages, India is building AI that has to understand how…

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Technology

India’s AI Race May Be Won by Power, Not Just Processors

Why electricity, cooling, connectivity and real-world adoption could matter as much as GPUs in India’s artificial-intelligence push The global artificial-intelligence race is often presented as a contest of spectacular numbers: how many GPUs a…

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Fashion & Beauty

Isha Ambani’s 450-Hour Zardozi Look: The Craft Behind the Couture

450 Hours of Embroidery: The Craftsmanship Behind Isha Ambani’s Zardozi Look A luxury outfit can take a few minutes to admire. It can take several hours to photograph. And sometimes, it can take 450…

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Fashion & Beauty

Patan Patola to Banarasi: India’s Textile Heritage Gets a Contemporary Fashion Makeover

Patan Patola to Banarasi: India’s Textile Heritage Gets a Contemporary Fashion Makeover India’s traditional textiles have survived wars, changing fashions, industrialisation and, occasionally, the rather dangerous human habit of deciding that something is “old-fashioned.”…

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Fashion & Beauty

Sabyasachi NYFW 2026: Bengal Byzantine Broadway Takes India to New York

Sabyasachi Returns to New York: When Bengal Met Byzantine and Broadway For an Indian designer returning to New York Fashion Week after almost two decades, Sabyasachi Mukherjee could have chosen the obvious route. More…

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Food & Leisure

Little Italy has opened an 11,000+ sq ft destination restaurant in Lonavala

Little Italy Opens in Lonavala, Bringing Its 35-Year Vegetarian Legacy to a New Destination Lonavala has never needed much convincing as a weekend destination. The hills do most of the marketing. The monsoon does…

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Food & Leisure

Delhi’s tbsp. Tablespoon Arrives in Mumbai With Neapolitan Pizza & Pasta

Delhi’s tbsp. Tablespoon Arrives in Mumbai With Neapolitan Pizza and Handmade Pasta Mumbai has never suffered from a shortage of restaurants. What it does have is an unusually demanding audience — one that can…

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Business

Tata Sons Crisis 2026: Boardroom Battle Wipes $4 Billion From Tata Stocks

Tata’s Boardroom Battle: Why a Governance Dispute Wiped Billions From the Group’s Market Value For decades, the Tata name has been associated with something corporate India values almost as much as profits: institutional trust.…

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Business

Apple Pay India Launch 2026: Can Apple Challenge UPI?

Apple Pay Is Coming to India — But Can Apple Find Space in a UPI Nation? Apple’s reported India launch puts its iconic wallet into one of the world’s most mature digital-payment markets, where…

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Business

India’s Smart Factory Revolution: Digital Twins, AI & Robotics

India’s Factory Revolution: When Machines Learn Before They Manufacture Digital twins, robotics, AI and simulation are changing how Indian factories are designed and operated—but the real challenge is taking smart manufacturing from demonstration centres…

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Entertainment

India’s Stand-Up Comedy Economy: From Small Clubs to Big Stages

India’s Stand-Up Comedy Economy Has Changed Stand-up comedy has evolved from a niche urban performance scene into a multi-platform entertainment business, with comedians now earning audiences through live tours, OTT specials, YouTube, comedy clubs,…

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Entertainment

India’s Concert Market Goes Global as International Tours Expand

From Global Pop to Indian Audiences: Why International Concerts Are Coming to More Indian Cities Chet Faker’s three-city India tour is another sign of a rapidly changing live-music economy. International artists are increasingly treating…

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Entertainment

Indian Cinema’s New Pan-India Phase: September–October 2026 Releases

Indian Cinema Enters a New Pan-India Phase September and October 2026 are bringing an unusually varied Indian theatrical calendar, with Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and other-language films sharing the national release conversation. The change is…

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Entertainment

Mirzapur The Movie: What Its OTT-to-Cinema Move Means for India

From OTT to the Big Screen: What Mirzapur’s Movie Move Says About India’s Streaming Era When Mirzapur: The Movie opened in cinemas on September 4, 2026, it did more than extend a popular crime…

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Entertainment

Pocket FM AI Revolution: How India’s Audio Startup Reached $500M

Pocket FM’s AI Gamble Is Turning Indian Storytelling Into a Global Factory With AI powering 93% of its catalogue and 99% of new production, the Indian audio platform is showing how artificial intelligence can…

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Entertainment

Amazon Alexa+ India Launch: Hindi, Hinglish and Generative AI

Alexa+ Comes to India: Amazon’s AI Assistant Learns to Speak Indian With Hindi, Hinglish, cultural context and the ability to act on complex requests, Amazon’s new Alexa+ is less about answering questions—and more about…

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Automobile

Volkswagen Track Day India 2026: VWe Experience Comes to Coimbatore

Volkswagen Brings Track-Day Culture to Indian Car Owners Volkswagen India is taking its performance-car community away from public roads and onto a proper racetrack, launching VWe Track Day Experiences at CoASTT in Coimbatore. The…

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Automobile

BMW September 2026 Launches: i5 LWB, i7 and 7 Series in India

BMW’s September Offensive Brings New Electric and Luxury Models to India BMW has turned September 2026 into a significant product month in India, launching the locally assembled i5 LWB before bringing updated versions of…

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Automobile

India EV Market Crosses 2.45 Million Sales in FY2026

India’s EV Market Crosses 2.45 Million Sales as Electric Mobility Moves Into the Mainstream India’s electric vehicle market crossed 2.45 million retail sales in FY2026, marking a 25% year-on-year increase and showing that electric…

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Automobile

One Million Cars by Rail: How Maruti Is Changing India’s Auto Logistics

One Million Cars by Rail: How Maruti Is Changing India’s Auto Logistics When a new car leaves an automobile factory, the most interesting part of its journey may not be the engine, battery or…

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Automobile

India’s Smaller EV Brands Surge in 2026 as Electric Scooter Market Hits Record

India’s Smaller Electric Scooter Makers Are Having a Very Big Year For years, India’s electric two-wheeler story seemed to belong to a relatively small club. TVS. Bajaj. Ather. Hero. Ola. Then something interesting started…

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Money & Finance

UPI Merchant Charges 2026: New MDR Rules From October 15

UPI Is Changing: What India’s New Merchant Charges Mean for Shops, Businesses and Consumers The era of completely zero-MDR merchant UPI is set to change from October 15. But most everyday payments will remain…

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Art & Artists

Rini Dhumal’s Urja Exhibition in Ahmedabad: A Five-Decade Tribute

Rini Dhumal’s Art Returns to Ahmedabad in a Five-Decade Tribute “Urja – What Returns, Changes” brings nearly five decades of Rini Dhumal’s paintings, drawings, prints, tapestry and ceramics to Ahmedabad, revisiting an artistic language…

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Art & Artists

The Grammar of the Self: Kanchan Chander Retrospective in Delhi 2026

The Grammar of the Self: Kanchan Chander’s Five-Decade Journey Comes to New Delhi A major New Delhi retrospective brings together more than five decades of Kanchan Chander’s drawings, prints and mixed-media works, revealing how…

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Art & Artists

Belong Exhibition Mumbai 2026: Chanakya School Brings Craft to Contemporary Art

Belong in Mumbai: When Indian Craft Steps Beyond the Fabric At Experimenter in Colaba, Chanakya School’s “Belong” turns textile into landscape, sculpture and a meditation on ecology, memory and inherited knowledge — as Mumbai…

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Art & Artists

Banana Waste to Textile: How India Is Turning Pseudostems Into Fibre

From Banana Waste to Fabric: How India Could Turn Farm Residue Into a New Textile Economy What if the next interesting textile in your wardrobe did not begin in a cotton field? What if…

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Art & Artists

Kutch Beadwork Goes to New York: Kartik Research and MOI Reinvent Motibharat

Kutch Beadwork Goes to New York: Kartik Research and MOI Turn Motibharat Into Fashion A jacket button is usually the sort of thing nobody notices. You button the jacket, leave the house and forget…

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Overseas Indian

Considering Australia in 2026, the Indian dream still has considerable appeal

Indians in Australia 2026: A Growing Community Living Between Opportunity and Reality Good universities. A strong economy. Professional opportunities. A multicultural society. A large Indian community. And, for many migrants, the possibility of building…

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Overseas Indian

Indian culture is also influencing America

Indian Culture in America: How a Community Is Preserving Its Roots While Shaping American Life Walk through parts of New Jersey, Texas, California, Illinois or New York and it is possible to encounter an…

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Overseas Indian

From India to the World Business

How Indian-Origin Leaders Reached the Top of Global Business A boy growing up in Chennai becomes the head of one of the world’s most influential technology companies. An engineer from Hyderabad rises to lead…

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Overseas Indian

The UN Map Row: Why India Objected

Depiction of Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin A map normally sits quietly on a wall, in a textbook or inside a geography application. But sometimes a map becomes foreign policy. That is exactly what…

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Overseas Indian

BRICS 2026 : Delhi Summit Is a Test of Strategic Autonomy

Global South Ambition and Practical Cooperation On September 12 and 13, New Delhi will become one of the most closely watched diplomatic addresses in the world. The occasion is the 18th BRICS Summit, hosted…

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Overseas Indian

Where Does the World Like India Most?

The Countries Giving India Its Strongest Global Ratings India’s global image is often discussed through the language of diplomacy: strategic partnerships, trade agreements, defence cooperation, technology, the Global South and geopolitical influence. But there…

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Overseas Indian

India’s Foreign Policy Determined A New Geopolitical Balancing Act

West, the Global South and a Battle of Narratives The geopolitical map is becoming increasingly complicated—and India appears determined not to read it like a school timetable. One day, New Delhi is deepening strategic…

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Overseas Indian

Singapore Draws a Line Against Anti-Indian Hate

Why Lawrence Wong’s Message Matters Beyond Social Media A few ugly social-media posts can sometimes reveal something much larger than the people who wrote them intended. Singapore is discovering that again. Prime Minister Lawrence…

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