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26 Jan

Mark Carney Heads to India With Billions at Stake? – 2026

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New Delhi [India], January 26: Mark Carney is preparing to land in India in early March. It is not ceremonial. It is strategic, urgent, and long overdue. Canada’s prime minister is expected to visit India in the first week of March to sign a clutch of agreements spanning uranium, energy, critical minerals, artificial intelligence, and emerging technology. The timeline was confirmed by India’s High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh Patnaik, in an interview this weekend. This visit sits inside a much larger recalibration. Canada is actively reducing its dependence on the United States. India is the clearest alternative partner on the…

26 Jan

The $136B Question: India EU Free Trade Agreement Near Closure After 17 Years

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New Delhi [India], January 26: This story refused to end for years. Now it’s cornered. The India EU Free Trade Agreement is finally being treated like something real. Start with the optics. Delhi. Republic Day afterglow. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa. That alone sets the temperature. But the substance matters more. An announcement signalling the conclusion of talks on the India EU Free Trade Agreement is expected to anchor the summit. Not buried. Not vague. Front and centre. Alongside it, a strategic defence pact and a mobility…

26 Jan

How Much Sleep You Actually Need

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New Delhi [India], January 26: Everyone keeps pretending this is complicated. It isn’t. The number has been stable for decades, and the arguments around it are mostly coping strategies dressed up as productivity theory. Adult humans need roughly eight hours of sleep. Not “six to seven.” Not “whatever works for you.” Eight. Nightly. Repeatedly. Forever. The variability people cite exists at the margins, and almost no one lives there. You can survive on less. You can function. You can even perform. That’s the trap. Sleep deprivation is generous that way. It gives you just enough rope to believe you’re the…

26 Jan

Young Indian Entrepreneurs Under 30 Who Didn’t Wait for Permission

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 26: India’s youngest entrepreneurs aren’t “future leaders.” They’re already running the table. Under 30. No inheritance. No patience. Something shifted. Quietly at first. Then all at once. Young Indian entrepreneurs under 30 in 2026 are not playing startup fantasy leagues. They’re shipping. Scaling. Filing IPO papers. And they’re doing it in sectors that used to scare older money. Deep-tech. Space. Healthcare. Infrastructure disguised as apps. This isn’t hustle culture. It’s execution culture. Look at Zepto. Kaivalya Vohra is 22. Aadit Palicha is 23. The story has been repeated so often it risks sounding cute. It isn’t.…

26 Jan

Robbie Williams Just Broke a Beatles Record and Pop History Isn’t Comfortable With It

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London [United Kingdom], January 26: Robbie Williams now holds the record. Sixteen UK number-one albums. The Beatles are at fifteen. That’s it. That’s the fact. Everything else is people negotiating their feelings about it. Different eras. Different rules. Different consumption habits. All true. Also, besides the point. Charts are not philosophy seminars. They’re ledgers. Numbers go up. Records fall over. Nobody asks whether the fall was tasteful. What makes people itchy isn’t that Robbie Williams beat The Beatles. It’s how he did it. Slowly. Publicly. Without ever becoming sacred. He didn’t vanish into legend. He didn’t die young. He didn’t…

26 Jan

Aryan Mehta Makes a Powerful Debut in “Rangrezz”, The Indian Reimagining of Shakespeare’s Othello That Captivated Theatre Circles

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 26: The evening saw the presence of Deepika Singh, Jayati Bhatia, Ankur Panchal, Kishori Shahane, Bobby Vij, Smita Bansal, Yesha Rughani, Pracheen Chauhan, Dishank Arora, Keerti Kelkar, Ishaan Dhawan, Priyanshi Yadav, Rajesh Balwani, Vivaan Bedi, Eshaan Sood, Shailesh Lodha, Manini De, Nivedita Basu, Rajev Paul, Sreejita De, Amar Upadhyay, Anushree Mehta , Abeer Sen Gupta, Haadi Ali Abrar, Rajan Shahi, Ishika Shahi Dr Sameera Gupta, Harry Anand & Many More. Aryan Mehta, grandson of legendary filmmaker Pranlal Mehta and son of producer Jay Mehta- made his much-anticipated debut with Rangrezz, an ambitious Indian adaptation of Shakespeare’s…

26 Jan

Why Tea Is Still a Booming Business in India and Why Most Entrepreneurs Get It Wrong

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New Delhi [India], January 26: Tea is still a booming business in India because it never needed permission to exist. That’s the part most entrepreneurs miss. Tea doesn’t care about branding decks, pitch days, or lifestyle adjectives. It’s there at 6 a.m. in chipped cups, at railway platforms smelling like burnt milk, in offices where nothing else works but deadlines and caffeine. It’s infrastructure. People confuse that with opportunity and then wonder why they get chewed up. India didn’t “discover” tea as a market. It inherited it, absorbed it, ritualised it. Tea isn’t consumed here; it’s leaned on. Emotionally. Economically.…

26 Jan

Republic Day 2026: Powerful Messages That Reignite India’s Resolve

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New Delhi [India], January 26: Republic Day 2026 didn’t shout. It didn’t need to. A few words, an old verse, and a familiar reminder did the job. Republic Day has a habit of being misunderstood. Too often, it’s reduced to parades, protocol, and a day off work. January 26, 2026, gently corrected that illusion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi framed Republic Day not as memory, but momentum. A living marker of India’s freedom, its Constitution, and the democratic values holding this improbable nation together. No grand announcements. No chest-thumping. Just intent. The centrepiece of the Prime Minister’s Republic Day 2026 message…

24 Jan

When Cartoons Stop Babysitting And Start Asking Uncomfortable Questions

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 24: Natalie Portman’s Arco didn’t arrive waving a superhero cape or humming a nostalgic Disney tune. It slipped into the conversation quietly, carrying something far more disruptive: ideas. And not the pastel, easily digestible kind. The kind that sit at the dinner table, linger after the credits roll, and—according to Portman herself—spark awkwardly profound conversations with children about climate collapse, responsibility, and the future we keep postponing. That Arco has now found itself in the Oscar conversation for Best Animated Feature feels less like a victory lap and more like a cultural eyebrow raise. Animated films…

24 Jan

Why Emily Dickinson Still Feels Uncomfortably Modern

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London [United Kingdom], January 24: Emily Dickinson still feels modern because she never tried to be legible. That’s the part people keep circling without saying out loud. She didn’t smooth the edges. She didn’t explain herself. She didn’t care if you “got it,” and she definitely didn’t care if you liked her. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant—” wasn’t a clever line. It was an operating principle. That alone puts her closer to the present than most writers embalmed by syllabi. She wrote like someone who understood the mind is not a neat place. Thoughts interrupt each other.…