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As of mid-2026, 236 mainboard IPO proposals sit in Sebi’s pipeline with nearly ₹3L cr ready to be raised. And 25 startups have already filed draft red herring prospectuses (DRHP) this year. The next two years will bring more Indian founders to that bell than any period before. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter…

Britain, like India, has its own NEET problem. Unlike the homophone, both problems are not neat but messy and resistant to ready solutions. Some see the leaked exam papers of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test as a sign of mismanagement of the Indian education system as a whole. As for Britain, it has a large…

Holding her first public press conference since her ouster exactly two years ago, former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina reiterated her determination to return to her country by the end of this year. Addressing virtually the media gathering in Delhi, Hasina provided her version of events that led her to flee Bangladesh. She asserted that a…

In the pursuit of Self-realisation, there is a common yet subtle trap: the aspiration to simply be a ‘good person’. We often measure our progress by a checklist of virtues – harming no one, giving to charity, and maintaining a pleasant demeanour. We convince ourselves that moral correctness is the ultimate destination, using our good deeds…

SIAM pulled a letter written to petroleum & natural gas ministry, in which the auto industry body had reportedly flagged contamination in the ethanol supply chain for E20 petrol. The letter, per reports, was written after investigation of cases of corrosive damage in fuel system and exhaust components of vehicles using E20 fuel – an issue linked to chloride-contaminated ethanol, and…

UPI is arguably India’s biggest success. It is the world’s largest real-time payment platform. Almost half of such payments, globally, happen on it. In absolute terms, there were more than 24,000cr UPI transactions in 2025-26, altogether worth 314L cr. For perspective, India’s GDP last fiscal was 346.4L cr. How did UPI grow so big? There are many…

Sujit John Sujit is the business editor, Bangalore, in The Times of India. He has been with TOI for 17 years, starting as an Assistant Editor on the Edit Page. He has been tracking technology for over a decade, and intensively tracking it for the past four years. He writes regularly for The Times of…

Let us begin with the obvious. The words spoken about PM at Jantar Mantar on July 23 were crude. It is no secret that they rebutted no policy and answered no argument. A protest that had already forced a Union minister to resign on the strength of its grievance was diminished by them, not helped. They deserve condemnation….

Let us begin with the obvious. The words spoken about PM at Jantar Mantar on July 23 were crude. It is no secret that they rebutted no policy and answered no argument. A protest that had already forced a Union minister to resign on the strength of its grievance was diminished by them, not helped. They deserve condemnation….

Nixon created ‘Expletives Deleted’. Trump patented ‘Expletives Repeated’. But we Bharatiyas are shudh shakahari in bhasha. Our men are entitled to leeway, but our girls have to be sattvik, never slutvik. However, being more evolved than the decadent, short-haired West, we forgive the misled, especially the missled. As borne out by last weekend’s magnanimous response to the Cockyroaches. But, not everyone is on the same…