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Red Card, Broken Heart & the Golden Cup: Lionel Messi Bids Goodbye After a 21-Year Love Story with Argentina
Red Card, Broken Heart & the Golden Cup: Lionel Messi Bids Goodbye After a 21-Year Love Story with Argentina
6 min read
Lionel Messi’s Argentina debut lasted less than a minute. Between that red card in Budapest and his final tears in New Jersey came 207 matches, 125 goals, two Copa América titles and the golden night ...
The School Bell That Saved 1,600 Children Before the Nepal Flood Swept Their School Away
4 min read
For years, the bell at Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School told children when to enter classrooms and open their books. On August 26, Principal Rajendra Dawadi rang it to make them run. Nearly 900 stu ...
India story holds @ 7.8 percent Q1 growth
2 min read
Services expanded 10% and investment surged 11.9% in the first quarter of 2026-27, keeping India’s two growth engines humming despite war and protectionism. By absorbing the external shock instead of ...
Nykaa Built the Mall. Now It Wants to Own More Shelves. Sound Familiar?
7 min read
Nykaa plans to double the annualised GMV of its house brands to ₹7,000 crore. Its retail data can reveal what Indians search for, buy and still cannot find. That is a formidable brand-building advanta ...
Game, Set, Tears: When Federer and Djokovic Discovered That Even Greatness Can't Defeat Time
8 min read
Roger Federer entered the Tennis Hall of Fame and wept over everything the game had given him. Twenty-four hours later, Novak Djokovic cried as his body collapsed during his earliest Grand Slam exit i ...
Google Says ‘Lake America’. Apple & MapQuest Say ‘Lake Ontario’. Which Map is Telling the Truth?
7 min read
Donald Trump could rename Lake Ontario only for the US government. Google carried his preferred name onto American phones, while rival mapmakers retained or defended Lake Ontario. Welcome to digital c ...
Unmasking The Ugly Face of India’s Beauty Boom
13 min read
The beauty opportunity is enormous. The economics are not always as pretty, with brands spending heavily to win consumers who can switch to the next serum, shampoo or skincare routine at the swipe of ...
ZERO RUNS, 171 WICKETS & 112 TO GO | How Deepti Sharma and Smriti Mandhana Became India’s Powerhouse Pair
10 min read
Deepti Sharma conceded nothing and became the highest wicket-taker in women’s T20 internationals. Smriti Mandhana made only 19 but moved within 112 runs of Mithali Raj’s all-format record. One control ...
Can PhonePe Make India’s ‘Dumb Phones’ Smart Again?
7 min read
More than 200 million Indians still use feature phones, largely beyond the app economy that transformed the country’s smartphones. PhonePe is now putting internet-free UPI inside handsets made by Noki ...