🌶️ India has 230+ chutneys. Who knew?

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Quick one before we start: name five chutneys. Now try for ten. A Mumbai food chronicler spent two years finding 230 of them, and the list will make you feel like you have barely scratched the surface of your own kitchen.

That, an AI story that affects nearly 6 million Indian jobs, and a cockpit door that saved 174 lives. Shall we?

A crispy, cheesy weekend snack that looks way too easy to finish.

How many chutneys can you name without thinking? 

Five? Ten? Mumbai food chronicler Rushina Munshaw-Ghildiyal spent more than two years documenting over 230 of them, with recipes and stories contributed by 140 people.

And we’re not just talking coconut and mint. The collection includes red-ant chapda from Chhattisgarh, axone made with fermented soybeans in Nagaland, Kerala’s nutmeg fruit chutney and Kumaon’s bhangjeera.

Reading this made me want to call my mother and finally ask for her chutney recipe. 

Let's see how brands celebrated Gandhi Jayanti

Indian IT has always grown the same way: more projects, more people, more billable hours. AI is breaking that formula. 

Clients now want AI to make projects faster and cheaper, and they expect the savings passed on to them, not kept by companies like TCS, Infosys, HCLTech and Wipro.

That squeeze is real even as these companies pour money into their own AI services. The industry employs nearly 6 million people, so this is not a small shift. Nobody is talking about replacing entire teams, but some projects now need fewer hands, while demand is rising fast for AI and cloud skills.

The question now is simple: can Indian IT turn AI into new growth, or does it just become a way to do more with less? Read more → 

No actors. No faces. Just the wedding itself. Look closely at the décor, flowers, venue, and lighting and take your best guess.

No scrolling to the answer yet. 👀

A man spots an unattended bag and decides to take it. Bad call. (8 mins) 

🏭 Jobs: Employment in India’s registered factories rose 7.2% in FY25, crossing 20 million workers for the first time. 

✈️ Aviation: Injured Indian captain Smit Machchhar reportedly managed to unlock the cockpit during the Flydubai emergency, helping passengers intervene before reserve pilots landed the aircraft safely.

⚡ Power: India recorded its worst September electricity shortage in nearly a decade as weaker hydropower and high demand stretched the grid.

🪔 Firecrackers: The Supreme Court has cleared the manufacture and sale of approved next-generation joined green crackers ahead of the festive season.

🏦 Bank holidays: October brings several bank holidays across India for Gandhi Jayanti, Durga Puja and other regional festivals.

🚀 Northeast: Sikkim has partnered with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park to support local founders with incubation, mentoring and funding connections.

⛵ Sports: Childhood friends Manu Francis and Prince Kurisinkal Noble won silver in the men’s skiff, India’s first-ever Asian Games silver in the event.