Indore Lost the Top Spot by Just One Point – Lucknow Took It
The city that’s been India’s cleanest for years, the one people always hold up as the example. Well, this week it slipped a bit. In the new clean air survey – Swachh Vayu Survekshan 2026 – Indore scored 197 out of 200. Lucknow got 198. One single point. That’s all. And just like that, Indore […]
UPI-ng the ante: PM Modi wants desi connect with global pay
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets up and basically tells the room: we’ve done the hard part at home, now let’s take this UPI thing and properly plug it into the world. UPI is already live in 11 countries — Singapore, the UAE, France, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Qatar, Cambodia, Greece and the Maldives. Solid […]
PM Modi’s Vadodara Event Tickets Vanish in One Hour on BookMyShow, 42,000 Left Waiting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public programme in Vadodara. Free registrations on BookMyShow opened, and within roughly an hour every available seat was taken. More than 42,000 people ended up on the waiting list. Registration had to be shut down after that. This is the first time a Prime Minister’s public event in Vadodara has used […]
Those Who Put India in the Fragile 5 Are Now Doubting Our GDP Numbers
The year when the world looked at India and went, “Fragile Five.” Morgan Stanley slapped that label on us along with Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. High inflation, rupee sliding, current account deficit looking ugly, policy paralysis talk everywhere. Growth felt stuck. People genuinely worried capital would just walk out the door. It was […]
‘PM Modi warned us’: Belgium PM finally admits Europe slept on India’s China warning
Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever was in Delhi this week and he said something pretty blunt.He looked at the Indian business crowd and basically confessed that Europe had been living in a bubble. For years they watched cheap Chinese goods flood their markets — sold below cost, killing local factories, slowly making Europe dependent. […]
Abhinandan Varthaman Has Joined a Private Airline
The pilot from 2019. The one with the thick moustache who shot down a Pakistani F-16 and then spent those three days in their custody. The guy who kept saying “Sir, I am fine” even when everything was going against him. Well, he’s left the Air Force now. After more than twenty-two years, Group Captain […]
As GDP Grows, PM Says “Don’t Travel Abroad Or Buy Gold, No Foreign Weddings”
India’s economy clocked 7.8 per cent growth in the April-June quarter — better than what most people expected. And right on the heels of that, Prime Minister Narendra Modi jumped on a video from Bishkek, where he’s attending the SCO Summit, and spoke straight to the camera like he was sitting across from you at […]
“Do You Feel You Are A Lord?” High Court Pulls Up Tukaram Mundhe’s Food Safety Body
The broom starts swinging a bit too wildly, and the ones getting hit start shouting. That’s roughly where Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration finds itself right now under Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. Just the other day, the Bombay High Court had some strong words for the department. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge […]
Four India-Based Firms Hit by Fresh U.S. Sanctions Over Iran Oil and Petrochemical Deals
On Monday, the United States went ahead and slapped sanctions on four companies based here in India. The charge is that they were dealing in petroleum and petrochemical products coming out of Iran. This is part of something the Americans are calling “Operation Economic Outcast.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced it, and the whole idea […]
CJP Calls Youth March from India Gate on September 5, Says Government Broke Its Word
The Cockroach Janta Party, better known as CJP, has decided it has waited long enough. On Monday the group announced a peaceful protest march in the capital on September 5, accusing the Centre of dragging its feet and quietly walking away from promises made just a month ago. The march will start at India Gate […]
