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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist Nirmalya Mukherjee and NewsX editorial director Priya Sahgal. 

While the global economy grapples with real crises, India is booming… with ministers dishing out unsolicited gyaan. In this week’s Newsance, Abhinandan Sekhri looks at how India’s startup ecosystem is being smothered – not by a lack of ideas, but by a surplus of sycophancy.

Economies are crumbling, the world order is shifting, and unemployment is on its way up, but TV news in India has more urgent matters to attend to – dissecting the specifics of a relationship between a man and his would-be mother-in-law.

Foreign secretary says he raised historically ‘unsettled issues’ with Pakistan

IN FOCUS: From obstacle races to ultramarathons, a growing number of Indians are embracing amateur endurance sports and finding a new community along the way, as Maroosha Muzaffar reports

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each year.

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25 ) on Thursday closed up +0.07 (+0.39%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed up +1.60 (+0.32%). On Thursday's news of reduced sugar output in India, sugar prices posted moderate gains. The Indian Sugar and Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) reported today...

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25 ) today is up +0.08 (+0.45%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) is up +2.20 (+0.44%). Sugar prices today are moderately higher on news of reduced sugar output in India. The Indian Sugar and Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association reported today that India's...

Foreign ministry officials from Bangladesh’s interim government and Pakistan have resumed talks after a 15-year gap, as the two South Asian Muslim-majority nations attempted to ease strained relations