New Delhi: A few weeks ago, I watched a friend flip her phone facedown on the table, sigh, and confess, “I didn’t do anything today, but I feel like I ran a marathon.” She hadn’t gone anywhere—just spent the morning scrolling news, replying to a bunch of group chats, half-watching a livestream, and refreshing this app that reminds her how few steps she actually took. That was her whole marathon: mostly just moving her finger. If you’ve felt that same weird kind of exhaustion—the one that’s got nothing to do with being physically active—trust me, you’re not crazy, and you’re…
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New Delhi: This Wednesday, August 5, the financial crowd across India will be glued to Mumbai. That’s where RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra walks up and shares what the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee has decided. Their job? Figure out whether to keep the repo rate steady or shake things up. For anyone who’s got a home loan, runs a small business, or just keeps an eye on EMI numbers, this stuff really matters. It’s the invisible number that decides how much interest you’ll pay month after month. Where things are right now The repo rate—the one that’s used when the…
New Delhi: For generations, school in India basically worked like this: memorize your textbook, spit it back on the exam, and move up. That recipe cranked out doctors and engineers by the truckload, but it stirred up a strange kind of anxiety too—almost like learning was just memorizing, not really understanding. Ask an eighth-grader why the sky’s blue and you’d likely get a blank face. But have them write the definition of “scattering of light” word-for-word? No problem. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was designed to blow up that old system. Now, five years down the line, it’s worth…
New Delhi: India’s tax department pulled off a strong showing in July. Net GST collections jumped 15.8% compared to last year, hitting ₹1.81 lakh crore. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll see the real story isn’t just about the total, but about where the money’s coming from. First, gross GST collections (before refunds) touched ₹2.11 lakh crore—up 15.4%. That’s the fastest growth we’ve seen in over a year, and only the second time this financial year collections have topped ₹2 lakh crore. April set an even higher record at ₹2.43 lakh crore, so July’s haul kind of seals the…
New Delhi: Exponent Energy isn’t your everyday EV charging startup. While most companies in Bengaluru are scrambling to dominate bike battery swapping, Exponent’s founders—Arun Vinayak and Sanjay Byalal Jagannath—decided to go after something tougher: a full-stack, rapid-charging solution for commercial electric vehicles. They built their own battery packs, chargers, and even connectors, all designed to juice up a fleet vehicle in just 15 minutes. That sounds bold, and six years later, they’ve turned heads—not just with their tech, but with a valuation that’s now more than ₹1,300 crore. The Origin Story Exponent started in 2020, but didn’t rush things. Their…
New Delhi: For decades, if you wanted to launch anything into orbit from India, ISRO was the only game in town. That changed on July 18, 2026. A 23-meter rocket called Vikram-1, built by Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace, shot off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Seventeen minutes later, it was gliding in a 450-kilometer orbit above Earth. With that flight, India joined a rare club—now only the U.S., China, and India can say their private companies have built rockets that reached orbit. This mission had a name: Aagaman, which means “arrival” in Sanskrit. It fits. Skyroot’s launch was…
New Delhi: We’ve all been there. Your cousin’s wedding speech rambles on, scattering punchlines and never landing anywhere. You find yourself watching a movie so predictable it hurts, or your coworker turns a trip to the grocery store into a saga no one asked for. Objectively, these stories are duds. Still, you sit through them. You wait for the ending, even if the journey is clumsy, forced, or dull. It’s not your fault. You’re built this way. The Brain Wants a Plot, Not a List Try rattling off a bunch of random facts to someone—come back an hour later, and…
New Delhi: Walk into any classroom and you’ll spot it right away, even if no one spells it out. One kid breezes through the worksheet in a flash and starts doodling, while another is still stuck on question three when the bell rings. Everyone’s in the same room, with the same lesson and the same amount of time, but their experiences couldn’t be more different. For more than a century, schools have stuck with this factory-style system—kids grouped by age, everyone plowing through the same material at the same speed, just hoping most students keep up. Truth is, this pace…
New Delhi: Take a walk through any Indian city right now, and the mix of old and new hits you instantly. There’s a grandmother lighting a diya at the front door, while her granddaughter checks the perfect muhurat on her phone. In a tiny workshop in Lucknow, a tailor finishes a hand-stitched chikankari kurta that’ll soon travel three states away after getting sold through a WhatsApp catalogue. India in 2026 isn’t stuck choosing between its traditions and its tech; it’s finding ways to tie them together—literally, sometimes. The Temple Has a Queue Number Now Even temples have gotten a digital…
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 1: For ages, India’s financial scene felt like an exclusive club for Mumbai and Delhi. The rest of the country? Mostly just watching from the outside. But that’s not the case anymore. These days, step into a mutual fund distributor’s office in Indore or a gold loan branch in Siliguri, and you’ll feel the same buzz that once was reserved for Nariman Point. The numbers tell the story. By February 2026, folks outside the top 30 cities held 27.6% of India’s individual mutual fund assets. And get this—new SIP sign-ups from Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns now…
