🚨 US-based DoorDash opened its first office in India in Hyderabad and plans to hire 3,000 employees.

🚨 Anant Ambani has been appointed as a Professor of Practice in Sustainability at Newcastle University.

Apple Pay is now live for Cashfree powered businesses in India 🇮🇳 Apple Pay is here, and online card payments just got a major upgrade. Cashfree is leading the way for payment gateways. Hunting down your wallet, typing 16 card digits, and waiting endlessly for bank OTP texts that never show up in time is officially behind us. Shopping online now works like this 👇 1️⃣ Select Apple Pay on a Cashfree store 2️⃣ Authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID 3️⃣ Payment confirmed in seconds Zero forms. No OTP delays. Real card numbers stay tokenised and are never shared with merchants, while your existing card reward points apply as usual. Already live from Day 1 are brands like Westside, Third Wave Coffee, FabHotels, and Pilgrim with @gocashfree Have you checked out with it yet? 👀 @ApplePay

🚨 Maharashtra government is considering a 10% cut in urban water supply and a construction ban in water-scarce areas.

🚨 Freshly cooked food is being served by Indian Railways in AC 1 coaches.

🚨 Axis Bank is planning to hire around 12,500 from college campuses in FY27.

🚨 Indian Oil plans to launch its own packaged drinking water brand across its 43,000 fuel outlets in India.

🚨 The nightmare for every employee in tier 1 city in India. 🙏🏽

🚨 PS5s, phones, laptops, high-end perfumes have been looted from LPU's Uni Mall during the violent protests but book stores remain untouched. 🙏🏽 (India Today)

🚨 Apple Pay is officially launching in India today.

🚨 Hyundai Motor has started exploring a third manufacturing location in the country. ⏳️

🚨 Tata Electronics is building a 363-acre plug-and-play vendor park in Dholera, Gujarat, to support 450 suppliers for its ₹91,000-crore ($11 billion) semiconductor fabrication plant.

🚨 Diet Coke has become more expensive in India, with some 330 ml cans now priced at ₹50 to ₹70.

🚨 A 14-year-old Indian-origin prodigy from Guntur, Ashrit Talluri, has achieved a rare, perfect 1600 on the SAT on his very first attempt in the US.

🚨 Saksham, a non-IITian BTech student from IIIT Ranchi, secures a ₹1.25 crore package, the highest offer in the institute’s history.

🚨 Breaking news: The Indian government is planning to block opening social media accounts for those under 18.

🚨 A 100-metre-long steel bridge for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project has been successfully installed in Thane. This bridge, weighing 1,405 metric tonnes, is the first of its kind in Maharashtra. It was transported from a workshop in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, and assembled on-site after travelling 1,300 km.

🚨 The Karnataka government is considering building a Karnataka Mantapa, on lines with Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam.

🚨 Ranbir Kapoor has entered India’s FMCG sector as the co-founder of Flux Theory, a new shower-care brand offering body washes.

🚨 A Hyderabad advocate booked a late-night movie at PVR Cinemas. The screening was delayed by 17 minutes of advertisements. He then filed a consumer case against the theatre. The Hyderabad District Consumer Commission has ordered PVR INOX to pay him ₹75,000. (ET)

🚨 "The United States would never allow India to become the next China as a strategic competitor." - Russian envoy to India, Denis Alipov.

🚨 Mumbai Metro installs ‘world’s first designated spitting spot’ at stations.

🚨 Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has announced a partnership with OpenAI.

🚨 Infosys is planning to move one-third (33%) of its workforce into specialist AI roles.

🚨 The Delhi government will double parking fees and implement a 50% work-from-home policy from November to January to combat air pollution.

🚨 Railway food is going to be monitored 24/7 in India. Indian Railways is installing AI-enabled CCTV cameras inside pantry cars and base kitchens watching over food preparation, packaging, and supply.

🚨 State Bank of India (SBI) to hire about 12,000 employees and add around 250 new branches in the current financial year.

🚨 Google is testing direct shopping from Walmart-owned Flipkart inside Gemini and AI Mode in India. Select users can now tap a “Buy” button on eligible products and enter a Flipkart checkout flow without leaving Google’s AI experience. A broader rollout is planned ahead of India’s festive shopping season. Source: TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/go…

🚨 At just 23, Anjali Sardana built Pronto, a Bengaluru-based 10-minute home services startup now valued at ₹800 crore.

🚨 Three IITs—IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Kanpur—are all building medical schools.

🚨 The job market is so tough in India right now. 🙏🏽

🚨 India could be 26% richer if more women join the workforce. (PLFS)

🚨 Nitin Gupta, IIT-JEE 2000 AIR 1, returned to IIT Kanpur in 2014 after training in the US and shifted from computer science to neuroscience. Now, he is studying the brains of mosquitoes. Expecting many more IITians to return to India and succeed.

🚨 IIT Bombay has only five SCs and six OBCs among 412 professors at the institute.

🚨 IIT Madras is targeting 1,000 startups under its fold by 2032 and at-least one startup going public per month.

🚨 AC, TV, and appliances prices to increase up to 8% from Oct 1 ahead of festival season in India. (MC)

🚨 India has laid the foundation stone for its very first port-based e-methanol plant at Deendayal Port, Kandla, in Gujarat.

🚨 The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking to make Hindi the official language of the apex court.

🚨 Odisha's Dhamra Port becomes India’s first large private multi-cargo port to run fully on renewable electricity.

🚨 Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, long known as the “Pearl City,” is set to get a massive ₹38,000 crore greenfield shipyard, expected to create more than 15,000 jobs.

🚨 Indian applicants for US visitor visas are experiencing long waiting times for interviews in various cities. Hyderabad - 12 months Mumbai - 11.5 months New Delhi - 10 months Chennai - 7.5 months Kolkata - 6.5 months

🚨 If a SIM card registered in your name is used for cyber fraud or illegal activities, you can face up to three years in prison, a fine of up to ₹50 lakh, or both. (DoT)

🚨 "We will work to ensure that not a single gram of drugs enters or leaves India by December, 2029." - HM Amit Shah.

🚨 A massive crowd reportedly gathered in Assam's Gogamukh for a recruitment drive at Vishal Mega Mart. 🙏

🚨 Vijay Kumar Sharma, a 59-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh, has finally become a government teacher after 27 years of trying. His journey included multiple recruitment exams and several unsuccessful attempts. 👏 Over the years, Sharma cleared the TGT written exam six times and the PGT exam four times. He also appeared for interviews around eight times but was never selected for the final list. During this long journey, Sharma spent nearly 26 years teaching in private schools while continuing to prepare for government recruitment exams. His persistence finally paid off after 27 years.

🚨 A former Uber driver in Delhi-NCR, Salman Khan, won a bronze medal in the men's double sculls event for India at the Asian Games 2026. 👏

🚨 Streaming has overtaken television in India's content investment for the first time.

🚨 Opinion: Avoid street food from vendors who prepare food with their bare hands. One of the main reasons for health risks. 🙏

🚨 Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) made history as the first IPL franchise to debut on the runway at Milan Fashion Week.

🚨 Microsoft has patented an "ad-credit" system to display ads on PC and Xbox.

🚨 Bengaluru entrepreneur Karthik SG faces backlash after announcing a ban on hiring male candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. The move follows a troubling experience with a former employee, who allegedly harassed female colleagues and attempted to force himself on one of them. The policy sparked a heated debate online, with critics arguing that it unfairly stereotypes people based on their state of origin. What are your thoughts on this?