Author: Eva Benerjee

It was once one byword with the rhythmic beat of spikes on a cinder track and the agonising waiting of a nation at a wait-stop watch. The Payyoli Express is conducting another type of race nowadays. Usha, being the President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), no longer runs to win the medals; she runs to save the honour, welfare and future of all the little girls and boys who are tying their shoelaces in the remote corners of India. Usha used her speech at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Sports Journalists Federation of India (SJFI) National Convention in…

International hotel chain Hard Rock International has closed ten Hard Rock Cafe locations in India after ending its franchise deals with JSM Corporation Pvt Ltd and groups linked to it. The business stated that the deals that allowed JSM Corporation to operate Hard Rock Cafes and Rock Shops in India have been officially terminated. Because of this, the cafés that were run under this agreement have now closed. As JSM Corporation had been in charge of running several Hard Rock Cafes in India before this move, it is a big change for the brand there. Since the relationship ended, these…

A new dance song featuring Nora Fatehi is getting a lot of attention online. A new song called Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke was released. It is from the upcoming Kannada action crime movie KD- The Devil. Nora Fatehi dances with star Sanjay Dutt in the music video. The movie is being made across all of India, and it’s already getting a lot of attention before it even comes out. As soon as the song came out, it became popular on social media sites. Although some viewers praised Nora Fatehi’s lively dance performance, the song itself and its presentation sparked a…

To the millions of Indians who view the highway as their second homeland the long-haul truckers, the weekend road-trippers, and the daily inter-city drivers, the screech of the tires on the tarmac is traditionally a voice of freedom. That freedom will however come at a little higher cost. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has formally listed changes in FASTag Annual Pass charges, which are bound to be brought into effect on April 1, 2026. Although increasing the price is not something to celebrate, this action is being packaged not only as a financial improvement, but as a step to…

In a society where we have become used to deleted messaging that never actually disappears and a digital shadow that follows us throughout decades, the ability to have a conversation that was truly private seemed like a luxury. To Instagram users, that refuge is soon going to shrink significantly. Meta has just affirmed that it has officially ended end-to-end encryption (E2EE) of Instagram Direct Messages by May 8, 2026. The shift is an alarming twist to a firm that was boasting of universal encryption a few years ago as the future of personal communication. However, to the millions of users…

The golden statuettes have been distributed, the red carpet is in the process of retrieval and the 98 th Academy Awards have already taken their place in the books of history. It was a night of long-term coronation, and the titanic political epic of One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson took all six Oscars, including Best Picture and the long-awaited first win as Best Director in a career of the old maestro. However, in addition to the number of trophies, the 2026 Oscars at Dolby Theater in Los Angeles was a very human experience. Once again hosted by…

The neon lights of the Shanghai Bund are winking slightly harder this March, and the high-speed tracks running out of Beijing are filled with the purpose that seems different than the preliminary atmosphere of the previous year. At the turn of the first quarter of 2026, the Chinese economic machine is starting to vibrate with a premature, but still a rather tentative, pace. The figures on paper indicate a tale of a spring thaw. The manufacturing indices are moving upwards, and the green energy exports- the shiny jewels of the new three industries (drone vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar products)…

There is nothing new about the New Parliament House high-domed halls becoming the scene of heated argument but this week the air in the Lok Sabha is especially filled with anticipation. As the Speaker brings the house to order, we look forward to two industries which make the bones and blood of India the Railways and Agriculture. The argument on the Demands for Grants can be looked at through the anaemic perspective of budgetary provisions and budget deficits. But behind every decimal point of the Union Budget is the tale of some of the passengers waiting on a fog-laden station…

With a flicker of a television screen sometimes determining the beat of a nation in an age, the Indian government has made a decisive stand on the theater of war. On March 6, 2026, the ministry of the information and broadcasting (MIB) asked the broad cast audience research council (BARC) to cancel the release of Television Rating points (TRPs) on all news channels immediately. The four-week restriction, which was originally meant to last four weeks, is a severe regulatory measure intended to put down a notch in the potentially overheated, more or less speculative media coverage of the growing war…

The silence of the sea, which has been so close and assailed with so much fierceness, in the narrow thin, watery ribbon called the Strait of Hormuz, is now interrupted by the low hum of gas turbines of Indian Navy destroyers. By March 15, 2026, the area has long since ceased to be a trade thoroughfare and has turned into a chessboard of high stakes on the sea. With the looming tension between the regional powers, the Indian Navy has stepped up its operations making the Operation Sankalp more than an ordinary patrol it is now a literal life-saving operation…