Author: Anand Gupta

New Delhi [India], January 5: Tourism Finance Corporation of India Ltd (TFCI) has decided to expand its presence in the alternative investment space by acting as a co-sponsor and anchor investor in two Category II Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), signalling a calibrated shift towards equity-linked and asset management opportunities. In a regulatory disclosure, the company said it […]

New Delhi [India], January 5: If you were looking for an announcement that sounds like it came out of a Tony Stark tech reveal, but with cricket whites instead of armour, you found it. On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is preparing with full strength to host the 2036 Olympic Games — and he didn’t […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3: For decades, Indian pop culture followed a familiar hierarchy. Films reigned supreme, television followed obediently, and web series were the new kid allowed to sit at the table—politely, conditionally, and only after the elders finished speaking. In 2025, that seating arrangement collapsed. When The Ba**ds of Bollywood emerged as the […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3: For years, cinema owners were told—gently, repeatedly, and sometimes smugly—that streaming had won. The couch was king. The algorithm was good. And theatres, poor souls, were merely nostalgic monuments with sticky floors and overpriced nachos. Then Stranger Things ended. And people—millions of them—put on real pants, left their homes, and […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3: Technology revolutions are usually imagined as hoodie-clad founders scribbling on whiteboards or venture capitalists throwing money at whatever has “AI” in the name. Meanwhile, somewhere far from keynote stages and pitch decks, a quieter transformation has been unfolding — inside state government offices, where innovation wears a badge, not a […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3: At Borivali, the three-day international conference “Rishabhayan-2: Forerunner and Architect of Indian Culture”, dedicated to the life and values of Bhagwan Rishabhdev—the pioneer of human civilisation—concluded successfully in a truly historic manner. Scholars, saints, thinkers, educationists, and students participated in the conference, which was witnessed by an audience of over […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3: For years, artificial intelligence has been sold like prophecy: abstract, dazzling, vaguely spiritual. Models grow smarter, demos grow louder, and everyone nods as if intelligence simply floats down from the cloud, free of consequence. SoftBank, it seems, has grown tired of the mysticism. With its $4 billion acquisition of DigitalBridge, […]

New Delhi [India], January 3: Jaldapara Rhino Calf – The 1 st of 2026 presented the wildlife lovers with a memory that they will be talking about decades to come. In the green forests of West Bengal in the Jaldapara National Park, a new baby one-horned rhino calf was born. To the conservationists in India, […]

New Delhi [India], January 3: Big public-sector muscle just met a real public need. NTPC has committed serious capital to strengthen cancer care, and this time, the impact is measurable, immediate, and human. NTPC Limited’s Western Region–I headquarters in Mumbai has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute for the […]

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3: At some point, progress stops whispering and starts humming—loudly, electrically, and without apology. That is roughly where Elon Musk’s xAI finds itself today. With the acquisition of a third facility to expand its already formidable “Colossus” supercomputer cluster, xAI is no longer nudging the AI race forward. It is flooring […]