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Chumbak lands on Netflix as three Hindi titles crowd a single streaming week

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- Chumbak, a multi-generational comedy-drama, premiered on Netflix on September 10. It opens a heavy week for Hindi streaming. The week's slate The wider September slate also carri... Read More


Xflow ties up with HSBC as Sarvam's voice agents cross one crore calls

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- Thursday brought a cluster of Indian startup announcements weighted towards infrastructure rather than consumer apps: cross-border payments, voice AI at scale, lending automation a... Read More


UPI gets tap-and-pay, and NPCI starts building a registry for AI payment agents

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- India launched a Tap-and-Pay feature for UPI on Thursday. Users can tap a smartphone against a point-of-sale machine to pay over NFC, without opening the UPI app each time. Removi... Read More


Rupee slips to 95.47 as the 10-year yield firms to 6.978

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- The rupee weakened again on Thursday, quoted around 95.4675 against the dollar compared with a previous close of 95.0800. The yield on the 10-year benchmark government bond rose to... Read More


Sensex snaps three-day slide, closes 138 points higher at 74,903

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- Indian equities snapped a three-day losing streak on Thursday. The Sensex added 138.36 points to close at 74,902.59 and the Nifty rose 46.30 points to 23,477.80, with banking and f... Read More


Brent tops 100 dollars as Houthis seize Red Sea port and US-Iran war enters seventh month

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- Brent crude closed above $100 a barrel on Wednesday, its first close at that level since May, as the war between the United States and Iran entered its seventh month. Houthi forces... Read More


Supreme Court asks CBSE to consider relief for Class 6 on three-language policy

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- The Supreme Court has asked the Central Board of Secondary Education to consider giving the current Class 6 batch relief from the three-language policy. A three-judge bench headed ... Read More


Supreme Court rejects Abu Salem's plea for early release in 1993 Mumbai blasts case

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea by Abu Salem seeking premature release from his life sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The bench found no reason to interfere w... Read More


John Ternus led his first Apple keynote - and picked a foldable to open with

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- September 9 was John Ternus's first keynote as Apple's chief executive. He took over from Tim Cook on September 1, and ran the presentation from the start - unveiling the iPhone 18... Read More


Apple skipped the standard iPhone 18 - and split its launch calendar in two

Punjab, Sept. 10 -- The most consequential thing about Apple's September event was a product that was not there. Apple did not launch a standard iPhone 18. The autumn lineup is premium only - iPhone 1... Read More