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Episode Date: September 27, 2026Bollywood has been seeing tough times since Covid. Theatre footfall still haven't recovered, even as box office numbers soar, and budgets for...
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832 episodes transcribedBollywood has been seeing tough times since Covid. Theatre footfall still haven't recovered, even as box office numbers soar, and budgets for...
After two years of slow adoption, Credit-Line-on-UPI is finally taking off, but not with the big banks. Small banks and fintechs are leading...
Make The Ken's Daybreak X First Principles Autumn Playlist here.India has roughly 54 million cases stuck in its courts. Inside many of them i...
Make The Ken's Daybreak X First Principles Autumn Playlist here.Amazon Now just crossed $1 billion in annualised gross sales, faster than Zep...
One year ago, GST 2.0 rewrote the tax on almost everything Indians buy — from soap to cars. It promised a simpler system and cheaper shopping...
India was about to have its first-ever peptide party with fifty guests, a mystery venue marketed only as "not a hospital," and a menu of coll...
For two decades, an Indian air ticket told you what kind of airline you were flying. Low-cost meant cheap and bare. Full-service meant meals...
Apple's newest iPhones landed in India with price hikes as high as 41%. And for the first time in years, there was no discount on older model...
In February this year, India announced a sweeping overhaul of how it calculates GDP, fixing a measurement system the IMF had flagged as outda...
Kids all over India are spending real money inside mobile games. And most of the time, they slip by the notice of the adults, until the bill...
India’s new data protection law is reshaping how companies talk to customers on WhatsApp. Messages that once felt routine now carry legal wei...
This week, a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic warning AI could "kill us all," and the company's own safety lead agreed. Meanwhile, OpenA...
India's foreign tourist arrivals slipped by about 8% from the year before to about 9 million in 2025, and a wave of recent reporting has fina...
In 1967, Air India paid Salvador Dalí for a custom ashtray with a live baby elephant, flown all the way to Spain. (Yes, really! Here's the pr...
After years of struggling to grow, Nykaa Fashion has finally found its footing. The past year brought a real resurgence. For a long time, the...
For over a year, India's restaurant association couldn't get Swiggy to return its calls. Then Rapido launched a food delivery app that charge...
When you call an Indian call centre these days, the person answering might sound American — even if they've never left India. A new kind of A...
Last week, Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle American lawsuits over how Instagram and Facebook treat children. The app will now...
Ozempic went off-patent in India this year, and everyone from Novo Nordisk to Nestlé has rushed in expecting a billion-dollar market. Instead...
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched Bharat Taxi, a government-backed, driver-owned ride-hailing service built to take on p...