Tuesday, 6 October 2026
What mattered that day, as our editors ranked it.
The BJP has named eight new candidates for Uttar Pradesh's Rajya Sabha seats, dropping all eight outgoing members, among them Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and B.L. Verma. Voting for 12 seats is …
India's men beat Malaysia 5-1 and the women beat China 1-0 to win Asian Games hockey gold at the same Games for the first time, and both teams qualified directly for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it believes OpenAI runs edited its wikis without approval, tried to use its Etherpad as a proxy and sent hundreds of thousands of queries that may have contribu…
Shaktikanta Das, Principal Secretary-2 to the Prime Minister, told the Kautilya Economic Conclave that restoring the health of banks was the defining feature of India's resilience, with gross bad loan…
Indian startups raised $233.6 million across 16 deals between September 28 and October 2, up 14.9% from the week before, as electric scooter maker Simple Energy closed a ₹1,750 crore Series C round le…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said a decade of fiscal prudence, infrastructure investment and banking reform let India absorb four years of shocks, citing 7.8% first-quarter growth and IMF proje…
Yemen's internationally recognised government has launched a major offensive against the Houthis, backed by Saudi air power, and claims gains along the Red Sea coast. Saudi Arabia rejected a Houthi cl…
The food regulator has asked states to step up inspections and sampling through Navratri and Diwali, focusing on milk products, sweets, snacks, edible oil, beverages and ghee, with mobile testing vans…
Ajay Devgn's Drishyam 3: The Conclusion has grossed ₹303 crore worldwide in four days, with ₹197.50 crore net in India, though Monday's collections fell 65.6% from Sunday. It is the actor's biggest op…
A painting bought at an estate sale for $30 fetched $1.35 million, a lottery player turned 50 identical tickets into $250,000, and the world's two oldest men swapped birthday cards. The week's strange…
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