French beauty behemoth L’Oréal has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Innovist, the Gurugram-based D2C startup behind Bare Anatomy and Chemist at Play, in what could be the biggest deal in India’s digital-first beauty landscape.

Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI, leaving Google just 18 months after a $2.7 billion deal brought him back. The Gemini co-lead and transformer co-inventor’s move is the biggest AI talent heist of 2026.

SpaceX market value surpasses Amazon just four days after its historic $135-per-share IPO on Nasdaq, as shares soared over 55%, valuing Elon Musk’s rocket empire at nearly $2.8 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire.

Bengaluru’s Sarvam has officially joined India’s AI unicorn club after raising $234 million in a Series B round led by HCLTech, hitting a $1.5 billion valuation. The round signals India’s serious push for sovereign AI as global model access grows increasingly uncertain.

WIPO ranks Jio Platforms in the global top 20 of PCT patent applicants for 2025, with a jaw-dropping 320-place jump. The Reliance-backed tech giant now stands alongside Huawei, Apple, and Google, and yes, it’s the only Indian name on that list.

Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX lists on Nasdaq at a staggering $1.77 trillion valuation, a number so absurd it almost sounds like a typo.

Virat Kohli has been named India’s most valuable celebrity with a brand value of ₹3,542 crore in the debut Fortune India–Interbrand rankings, leaving Bollywood legends Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan in the dust, because apparently, a cricket bat swings harder than a movie camera.

The Centre has exempted excise duty on higher ethanol fuel blends, E22, E25, E27, and E30, in a move that signals India’s most serious push yet toward biofuel-led energy independence. But don’t rush to the petrol pump expecting a discount just yet.

TCS Chairman N Chandrasekaran dropped a bombshell at the company’s 31st AGM, TCS AI agents will soon equal its entire human workforce of over 5 lakh employees. With annualised AI revenue crossing $2.5 billion and fresher hiring at its lowest since FY20, India’s largest IT firm is quietly rewriting the rules of employment, one algorithm at a time.

Zepto’s updated DRHP IPO filing is finally here, ₹8,010 crore fresh issue, doubled revenues, widening losses, an ED summons twist, and two Stanford dropouts who refuse to sell a single share.

The Pentagon has officially redesignated Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, and over a dozen other major Chinese firms as “Chinese military companies”, a blacklist that keeps growing even as Washington and Beijing sip tea together.

Tamim Iqbal is the new BCB president, and no, that isn’t a headline from a satirical cricket fiction novel. It’s real, it happened, and honestly, given how Bangladesh cricket administration has carried on these past few months, it was probably the only appointment that didn’t require a probe committee to sort out.

SEBI’s 109-page interim order against Rajesh Exports alleges the Bengaluru gold giant inflated nearly its entire consolidated revenue, a staggering ₹15.15 lakh crore, between FY21 and FY25, with unverifiable overseas subsidiaries at the heart of the scandal.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent an open letter to Vladimir Putin on June 4, proposing a face-to-face meeting in a neutral country and a full ceasefire during negotiations, after over four years of war and more than 1.37 million Russian casualties.

The RBI Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% on June 5, 2026, for the second consecutive time, as Governor Sanjay Malhotra cited rising crude oil prices, a record-low rupee, and geopolitical heat from West Asia as reasons to sit tight and watch the fire.

The Del Vecchio inheritance dispute, a four-year soap opera played out in courtrooms from Milan to Luxembourg over the fortune behind EssilorLuxottica, has taken a significant turn, with two of the billionaire heirs reaching a provisional agreement to stand down from legal warfare.

Just two months after lifting the T20 World Cup, Suryakumar Yadav has been removed as India’s T20I captain and dropped from the squad altogether. BCCI, selectors, and Gautam Gambhir have decided it’s time to move on.

The USTR has proposed 12.5% additional duties on India and 53 other countries for allegedly failing to ban goods made with forced labour and the timing couldn’t be more awkward, with US trade delegates literally in New Delhi as the report dropped.

SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable listed company after an AI-driven 14% single-day surge pushed its market cap above ¥48 trillion, ending Toyota’s 22-year reign at the top of Japan’s corporate pile.

Wockhardt’s Zaynich FDA approval has made history as the first New Chemical Entity fully developed by an Indian pharma company to receive a US FDA nod. With an 89% efficacy rate against drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and eyes on a $9 billion antibiotics market, India’s pharma ambitions just got a whole lot louder.