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Ramayana has sold ₹34 crore of tickets before Day 1. The first viewers are less united
Four days before release, Nitesh Tiwari's epic is pre-selling like a festival film, at nearly double Animal's ticket price. The LA premiere crowd loved the scale and argued about the soul.
Two points from history: Kimi Antonelli can be F1 champion in Mexico tonight
A ninth win of the season in Austin left Antonelli 123 points clear with 125 to play for. A top-nine finish in Mexico City makes him F1's youngest-ever champion.
India chased 199 in 13.2 overs. New Zealand are still doing the maths
Abhishek Sharma's 35-ball hundred sealed India's T20I series in New Zealand with two games to spare. Then the Black Caps hit back with 259 at Eden Park.
Mumbai sold 17 luxury homes a day for six months. The ₹50 crore club just doubled
₹32,623 crore of ₹5 crore-plus homes changed hands between April and September 2026. And the city's top rent is now ₹28.5 lakh a month.
AR Rahman says he wants to do less work. He's playing a three-hour show in Mumbai tonight
34 years after Roja, Rahman brings the Wonderment Tour to Jio World Garden on 1 November and makes his Delhi debut with it on 21 November. Here's the show, the schedule and what he said about AI.
Jailer 2 is now the biggest Tamil film ever, and it got there without North India's big multiplexes
Rajinikanth's sequel crossed ₹700 crore worldwide in 11 days. The Hindi market barely showed up, and that story is about streaming windows, not star power.
Jio lists at a 21% premium: what India's biggest-ever IPO actually tells us
Jio Platforms raised ₹30,213 crore, debuted at ₹1,358 a share and is now India's second most valuable listed company. Here's the gist, in plain numbers.
Denied, cleared, sold out: Diljit's Delhi opener survived a police 'no', a date change and the rain
The Aura India tour finally began at JLN Stadium on 30 October. How a 1 November show became an October show, why police said no first, and what happened on the night.
Taylor Swift, 36, is now the youngest member of Nashville's songwriting hall of fame
Twenty years after her debut, the town that taught her to write has put her in its most exclusive club. It's her second songwriting hall of fame this year.
Lula wins a fourth term, and the man he beat is now in Miami
Brazil's 81-year-old president came from behind to win the runoff. Two days later, Flávio Bolsonaro left the country despite a court order. Here's the full picture.
Rahul Bose on Udta Teer: dialogue-free slapstick as a CTS chief in a coma
Rahul Bose says most of Udta Teer's wildest physical comedy was improvised, and explains why the director wanted the actor nobody expects to be funny.
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine cuts about half its staff after buyback
Roughly 30 jobs go as Witherspoon and Mediawan take the company back from Candle Media, as per reports. A $900 million valuation in 2021 has shrunk to a fraction.
India's concert calendar just exploded: every big show from November to January
Guns N' Roses, Diljit, Anyma, Fred again.., Khalid, The Chainsmokers and Foo Fighters. Dates, cities and the nights you'll have to choose between.
Sold out? Here's how fans lose money chasing tickets, and how not to
From the ED's raids over Coldplay and Diljit tickets to account-locked Tomorrowland bracelets: five rules before you pay anyone for a sold-out show.
The Weeknd ends the biggest male solo tour ever in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur
After Hours Til Dawn crossed $1 billion. Its last six shows are four nights at Kai Tak and two in KL, where the top VIP package gets you on stage, but not with him.
Drishyam 3: ₹176.5 crore in three days, and Ajay Devgn's biggest Monday ever
The Hindi finale of the franchise is 2026's second-biggest Hindi opening weekend. And yes, there were two Drishyam 3s this year.
Kimi Antonelli is 20, leads F1 by 84 points, and is coming for Vettel's record
Eight wins, 320 points and seven rounds to go. Mercedes' teenager-turned-title-leader could become the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history.
Diljit Dosanjh's Aura India tour: seven cities, one 1.3-lakh-seat stadium, tickets from ₹999
Delhi on 1 November, Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium on 21 November, Lucknow on 5 December. Here is every date, venue and how the tickets work.
Verstappen doesn't want to race in the Gulf. F1 says the finale is on anyway
Formula 1 has confirmed Qatar on 29 November and Abu Dhabi on 6 December, even as the four-time champion says the sport shouldn't go. Abu Dhabi is 99% sold.
Tomorrowland Thailand sold 150,000 tickets in under an hour, before anyone knew who was playing
Asia's first full Tomorrowland lands in Pattaya on 11–13 December with Martin Garrix and Swedish House Mafia. 85% of buyers are flying in.
Wimbledon turns 150 next summer. Here's why 2027 will be the hardest ticket in tennis
The Championships run 28 June to 11 July 2027, 150 years after the first one. An Andy Murray statue is planned. Your ballot window is now.
20,000 people, an LED sitar and Deepika in the crowd: how Rishab Rikhiram Sharma made classical music a stadium act
The last disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar took Sitar for Mental Health to 10 Indian cities in 2026, after a geopolitics-driven postponement the year before.