Iliyas Albaruni: 19-Year-Old Rabt Founder From Assam
Iliyas Albaruni, 19, from Assam, founded Rabt and NevDev. His journey from a failed Class 7 YouTube channel to companies in India, Italy and Canada.
7 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
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New Cheque Book Rules 2027: RBI Calls Viral Claim Fake
New cheque book rules 2027? RBI and PIB Fact Check say the viral claim is fake: your current CTS cheque book stays valid after 31 Dec 2026 as well.
9 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
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Jio 3 Year Plan: Rs 10,000 Price, Benefits, Validity
Jio 3 year plan costs Rs 10,000 for 36 months: unlimited 5G, 2.5 GB/day, 100 SMS/day, Canva Pro Lite and 50 GB cloud. Benefits and FAQs explained.
7 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Canva Layoffs 2026: 1,271 Jobs Hit, 22% of Staff
Canva layoffs 2026 affect 1,271 people, 22% of staff, as growth slows. What Canva said, the severance package and the India angle, explained.
5 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Muhurat Trading 2026: Date, Time and Rules for Diwali
Muhurat trading 2026 is on Sunday, 8 Nov. NSE's circular sets the pre-open at 2:05 PM and trades are settled. Full session timings and FAQs explained.
5 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Aditya L1 News Today: Solar Eruption Shape Revealed
Aditya L1 news today: ISRO says VELC found a solar eruption expanded unevenly, not as a symmetric bubble. What it means for space weather, explained.
5 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Adobe for Startups: Free Firefly, Acrobat for 1 Year
Adobe for Startups gives eligible early-stage startups 12 months of free Firefly Pro Plus, Acrobat Studio and Semrush. Who qualifies and how to apply.
4 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Temple Wearable Price in India: Pre-Order, Return Policy
Temple wearable price in India is ₹85,000 as per reports. Pre-orders are open, it ships in early 2027, and Deepinder Goyal may drop the 14-day returns.
4 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
GIFT Nifty Timings: New Hours as NSEIX Goes 23.5 Hours
GIFT Nifty timings changed on 2 Nov 2026: NSEIX now runs 23.5 hours, and GIFT Nifty opens at 5:15 AM IST, not 6:30 AM. Full session-wise schedule here.
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
MobiKwik Q2 Results 2026: Record ₹11.8 Crore Profit
MobiKwik Q2 results 2026: PAT of ₹11.8 crore and EBITDA of ₹22.7 crore, both record highs, as revenue rose 9% to ₹295.7 crore. Full numbers explained.
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Affle to buy Israel's Perion for about $420 million in an all-cash deal
Gurugram-based Affle 3i has signed a deal to buy Nasdaq-listed Israeli adtech company Perion Network at $11.70 a share in cash, valuing it at about $420 million. The deal is expected to close in early 2027.
2 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Digi Yatra starts trials for international flyers at 7 airports, using your e-passport
Digi Yatra, the face-based airport entry system used by domestic flyers, is now being tested for international travel at seven airports. Indian citizens with e-passports can try it on select Air India and IndiGo flights until December 2026, with a wider rollout planned for 2027.
2 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Bijnis is now Zorit, and it has raised ₹27 crore for 60-minute deliveries to shops
Agra-born B2B startup Bijnis has renamed itself Zorit and, according to reports, raised ₹27 crore in a round led by Sparrow Capital. It now delivers factory stock to small retailers from local dark stores in about 60 minutes.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
MeitY launches DEPA handbook so AI can train on data without the data leaving home
MeitY has launched a handbook on DEPA for AI Training, a techno-legal framework that lets companies and institutions use each other's data to train AI models while keeping control of that data. It was unveiled in Bengaluru on 31 October 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Coratia raises ₹18 crore to build underwater robots for the Indian Navy
Odisha-based deep-tech startup Coratia Technologies has raised ₹18 crore in a bridge round led by MGF Kavachh. The money will help it deliver a ₹66 crore Indian Navy contract under iDEX and build more underwater robots.
31 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
ISRO puts NVS-03 in orbit, NavIC back to four working satellites
ISRO's GSLV-F18 lifted off from Sriharikota late on Friday night and placed the NVS-03 navigation satellite in its planned orbit. ISRO's chairman says this brings NavIC, India's own GPS-like system, back to its minimum working strength of four satellites.
31 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
AmbSeva: from 2 partner ambulances to 600+ across Chhattisgarh, says founder
AmbSeva started in September 2024 as AmbGo with 2 partner ambulances in a local town in Chhattisgarh. Its founder says it now has a network of 600+ ambulances in the state, has added home healthcare in Delhi and Lucknow, and is building Bellor, an AI safety responder for cabs and public transport.
30 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Is India building an 'artificial sun'? What's built, what's planned
India is building its 'artificial sun' but hasn't built one yet. IPR Gandhinagar has added a new 82.6 GHz gyrotron to its SST-1 tokamak, and a proposed SST-Bharat reactor and a 2060 demo plant are on the roadmap. Fusion power for homes is still decades away.
30 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Apple MacBook Pro Touchscreen Launched: OLED PROLED XDR, Price in India, Specs and Release Date
Apple has launched its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with a tandem OLED 'PROLED XDR' display, Dynamic Island and M5 Pro/M5 Max chips. 14-inch from $2,899, 16-inch from $3,399; India price reported from ₹3.49 lakh. Ships 6 November.
29 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
ISRO to launch NVS-03 navigation satellite on GSLV-F18 on 30 October
ISRO will launch NVS-03, the third satellite of India's next-generation NavIC navigation series, on the GSLV-F18 rocket from Sriharikota on Friday, 30 October 2026. It carries a made-in-India atomic clock.
29 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
UP approves 69.52-acre Robotics and AI Park in Greater Noida
The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on 27 October 2026 approved a 69.52-acre Robotics and AI Park in Greater Noida, which the state expects to create over 1 lakh jobs and about ₹2,000 crore in yearly economic value.
29 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
IIT Bombay duo's electric farm machine earns ₹70 lakh in 15 months
IIT Bombay graduates Aishwarya Ramakrishnan and Kedar Gokhale left senior jobs at Mahindra and Swiggy to build Balisto Agritech, a Pune startup making electric farm machines. It has reported ₹70 lakh revenue in about 15 months.
29 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Sarvam signs AI deal for India's Army, Navy and Air Force
Bengaluru AI startup Sarvam has signed an MoU with Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) under the Ministry of Defence to build AI applications for the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force.
29 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Mexican teen wins gold in Indonesia for a fire extinguisher that uses sound
Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández, a 16-year-old student from Altamira, Mexico, won gold at the International Science and Invention Fair (ISIF) 2026 in Indonesia for Vortex Tech, a prototype that puts out small flames with low-frequency sound.
27 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Deepinder Goyal's Temple wearable opens pre-orders, priced at ₹85,000 for early access
Temple, the brain blood-flow wearable from Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal, is now taking pre-orders from its early access list. Invitations reportedly list it at ₹85,000, and everyone else can pre-order from November 1 through the Temple app.
27 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Arts graduate builds an electric flying car prototype
Ravi Tamta, a Bachelor of Arts graduate from Almora, Uttarakhand, has built HAPIDA SKYNeX, a single-seat electric flying vehicle prototype, after 13 years of self-learning. It made its first test flight in August.
27 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Class XII student builds a classroom from a shipping container
Bengaluru Class 12 student Divit Garg has built The Unboxed School, a portable classroom inside a 40-by-8-foot shipping container for 20 to 25 children of migrant construction workers.
27 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Polygons: how an NID student's flat spoon went from Kickstarter to Shark Tank
In 2014, NID Ahmedabad student Rahul Agarwal redesigned the measuring spoon. His flat spoon Polygons raised $1,022,120 on Kickstarter and later won a deal on Shark Tank USA.
25 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Dr K. Thangaraj: the scientist who found a 65,000-year-old story in Andaman DNA
CCMB geneticist Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj showed that Andaman tribes descend from the first humans to leave Africa, about 65,000 years ago. In 2026 he received the Padma Shri.
25 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
From 7 farmers to 12,000+: the Rapid Organic story
Rapid Organic started in 2010 with 7 farmers. Today it works with 12,000+ farmers on 60+ organic crops, and its Organic Cumin Tisane is on Amazon, Flipkart and JioMart.
25 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
OrbitQR wants to turn happy customers into Google reviews with one QR scan
OrbitQR uses a simple QR code and AI-written review suggestions in Indian languages to help businesses collect more Google reviews and reply to them automatically.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
AgriBills is building billing software made for the grain trade
AgriBills automates paddy and rice billing, including suit cutting calculations, deductions and lot tracking, and is expanding to all agri-based grains.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Scrappo brings doorstep scrap pickup and disposal to Mumbai
Mumbai startup Scrappo picks up scrap from your doorstep, from newspapers and metal to e-waste and old furniture, and takes care of proper disposal.
24 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
Mangwale is building a zero-commission delivery platform for local businesses
Mangwale is working on a zero-commission platform that connects restaurants, local stores and parcel delivery with digital customers.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
LifeMate wants to handle your everyday errands so you can get your time back
LifeMate, focused on Malad West in Mumbai, sends an executive to handle everyday tasks like pickups, errands, queues, shopping and senior assistance.
24 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
Flipkart is coming for food delivery with 'Eat-In by Minutes'
Flipkart is testing Eat-In by Minutes, a food delivery service, with employees in Bengaluru, and is reportedly offering restaurants a much lower commission.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Tech30 2026: the 30 deep-tech startups to watch, from drones to chips
YourStory's Tech30 2026 list picks 30 Indian startups building core technology: drones, chips, space, robotics, health and clean energy.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI buys Orchestra Bio, Ashoka Rajendra's drug-development startup
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, the startup Ashoka Rajendra built to help pharma teams run drug development. Rajendra joins OpenAI's Life Sciences team.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Deepinder Goyal is building Dark.ai, an AI assistant that can't read your chats
Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal is developing Dark.ai, a privacy-first AI assistant with end-to-end encryption, aiming for a global launch by the end of 2026.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
OYO's parent PRISM nearly halves its IPO fresh issue to ₹3,350 crore
PRISM, OYO's parent, plans to cut the fresh issue in its IPO to ₹3,350 crore from about ₹6,650 crore as stronger cash generation lowers its funding needs.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Flipkart backs travel-tech startup TravClan in a $5 million round
TravClan, which powers more than 15,000 travel agents, has raised $5 million from Flipkart and August One, plus debt from Trifecta Capital.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Ex-PharmEasy founders' Chapter Home raises ₹63 crore at a near ₹1,000 crore valuation
Home and kitchen brand builder Chapter Home has raised ₹63 crore in equity and debt from Bessemer, Stride Ventures, Tanmay Bhat and family offices.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
CureBay raises ₹100 crore to take its rural clinics to more states
Rural healthcare startup CureBay has raised ₹100 crore in a Pre-Series C round led by IvyCap Ventures, to expand its tech-enabled clinic network.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Hunar.AI raises ₹40 crore to bring AI hiring to India's frontline workers
Hunar.AI has raised ₹40 crore in a Series A led by Blume Ventures. PhysicsWallah's Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari also invested.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
The Pant Project raises ₹109 crore to grow from 25 to 150+ stores
Menswear brand The Pant Project has raised ₹109 crore in a Series B led by Mirae Asset Venture Investments to expand its stores and range.
24 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
GharForU wants to make finding a room, PG or flat in a new city simpler
GharForU is a rental search platform for rooms, PGs, hostels and flats, where property owners can also list their property for potential tenants.
23 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
MyHELPR: Gurugram founder Sagar Suhag wants to make home help as easy as ordering food
Sagar Suhag’s MyHELPR brings cleaning, cooking, laundry, repairs, babysitting, elder care and car wash onto one app, with help arriving in 10–30 minutes depending on availability.
23 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
ProteinX: the smart vending machine that wants to change India’s protein business
ProteinX’s smart vending machine mixes and serves fresh protein and wellness drinks in seconds, with a no-shop, no-staff model for gyms, offices, universities and hospitals.
23 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Rojgar Suvidha: an app born from a cyber cafe queue, built to fill sarkari job forms for students
Rojgar Suvidha puts government job notifications, admit cards and results in one place, and its Apply For Me feature lets students upload documents while the team fills the form.
23 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
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