Rohit Sharma’s off-side masterclass, complemented by Ryan Rickelton’s on-side dominance, helped the Mumbai Indians end a 14-year wait and begin their Indian Premier League campaign with a commanding six-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday (March 29
Foreign investors are pulling money out of Indian equities at an unprecedented pace, as a global risk-off sentiment and rising energy costs cloud the country’s growth outlook, according to a report by Bloomberg. Overseas investors have sold a net $11
Microsoft is taking over a data centre construction project in Texas after OpenAI declined to pursue it, in a move that will make the two companies neighbours at one of the nation’s largest complexes for running artificial intelligence. Data centre developer Crusoe said Friday it is working with
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Shaheen Afridi’s awkward reply to Ramiz Raja after PSL ball controversy goes viral. Watch what happened in the final over drama. A viral post-match video from Pakistan Super League 2026 has put Shaheen Afridi under intense scrutiny after a ball-tampering controversy cost Lahore Qalandars a
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According to Satheesan, the UDF should be able to win 100 plus seats. When the Congress wins this election in Kerala, the party will emerge as the largest political force in South India, he says. Five-time Congress MLA is a prominent United Democratic Front (UDF) face in Kerala
ControlZ simplifies refurbished phone purchase, and Instagram lands on iPad
The terminology you use may vary, but the thing we are talking about is the same. Renewed, refurbished, pre-owned, these are smartphones that aren't new (but they also aren't the traditional as in ‘second hand' or ‘used' phones), but with an assurance that anything that needed to be has been fixed afresh, tend to deliver a lot more value and that climb up the aspirational ladder for many buyers. India's premium renewed smartphone platform ControlZ has launched its first experience store in Gurugram, in a marked step away from the online-first and e-commerce primed approach that renewed smartphones mostly leaned on. Circling back to the fresh fixes that I touched upon earlier, ControlZ confirms every smartphone they sell undergoes more than 311 stringent quality checks and OEM-grade replacements for displays, cameras, and components. A lot of this is difficult to showcase in an online store, and the physical store should help overcome those challenges for the buyer and the seller.
I asked Yug Bhatia, Founder and CEO of ControlZ, why now and how it makes things easier for consumers, and he insists this is the right time to bring that experience offline. “Consumers today care about both value and sustainability, but they also want trust. Our new store makes it easy: people can walk in, see and feel the quality for themselves, and leave with a device that's like new—100% battery health, 18 months warranty, and zero compromise. It's about giving people the confidence to choose renewed without a second thought,” he says.
The other point of discussion revolved around consumer preferences, and how that underlines the renewed smartphone market outlook. Bhatia insists India's renewed smartphone market is just beginning to take shape. “We believe it's going to grow rapidly in the year ahead. Consumers are moving away from second-hand bargains and toward renewed devices that deliver quality, reliability, and peace of mind. That shift is setting new standards for the entire industry,” he says. For Bhatia, ControlZ is never about following this change, but leading it by redefining what renewed means for buyers in India. Competition in this space is increasing, and it'll be interesting to see in a few months time, how this store has worked out for ControlZ in terms of traction.
As it is every year, Apple's hardware keynote in 2025 too was extensive. A lot to unpack, which I did on Hindustan Times in the hours after. There's still some unpacking to do in our weekly conversation. I've been speaking with analysts about their take on the announcements Apple made, as they try to make sense of it all. Are you ready?
Finally, Instagram for iPad. A 15-year wait (another thing the world's got before GTA VI) leads us to an app that isn't simply a stretched version of the iPhone app, so much so that this specific tablet interface will soon find space in the Instagram app for Android tablets too. “When designing Instagram for iPad, we wanted to take advantage of the bigger screen to give people more features with fewer taps, while keeping it simple,” the official statement says. Do try this out, for the iPad is often called the ultimate ‘media consumption device' and Instagram Reels are prime content consumption in this era, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
In a column recently (we didn't get a chance to talk about this), write about the warning signs that India's telecom market is teetering on the edge of becoming a duopoly dominated by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, as Vodafone Idea (Vi) struggles to survive. There is an urgent need to preserve Vodafone Idea (Vi) as a significant telecom player in India. Losing Vi would erode competition—hurt price affordability, service quality, and innovation for billions of mobile users. We have seen it at multiple points in time in the past year — monthly telecom bills and recharge prices have gone up, popular affordable plans have been removed by Airtel and Jio, whilst no discernible real-world network quality improvements (do tell me if your calls no longer drop or you have full network coverage in your apartment elevator or office basement parking).
I make the argument that supporting Vi isn't about corporate protectionism but a consumer welfare imperative, in the sense that diminished consumer choice, higher prices, and slowed technological advancement may be the result of a duopoly. There is a need for a clear policy intervention, if at all it is possible—like easing spectrum payment terms, restructuring debt, or other support—to help Vi stabilise and potentially regain competitiveness. Moreover, absence of incentives for new players to enter the market poses a thoughtful question — if we can't nurture the next ‘Jio,' alongside the current Jio, how will India stay competitive with upcoming technologies like 6G?
Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser business, to address the search monopoly issue, the judge in the antitrust case has ruled. That should, for starters, put an end to all sorts of naivety where certain AI bros thought they could buy out Chrome from Google, two institutions in their own right. The judge has ruled that Google can continue to pay partners for preloading or placement of its Search or AI products, but the tech giants must share some search information with rivals and bar it from putting together any exclusive deals to distribute its Search or AI assistant products in ways that might cut off distribution for rivals. Google does contend that this guideline to share some data with rivals will impact user data privacy, and that they are looking closely at this. Big picture — this may well be the biggest signal that regulators and courts may not be as willing to break up tech giants, as many expected.
OpenAI is adding a layer of parental controls to ChatGPT, which would give parents the option to link their personal ChatGPT account with the accounts of their teenage children. From then on, parents will be able to decide how ChatGPT responds to queries by their kids, as well as disable select features, including memory and chat history. Building on the emotional support aspect that OpenAI has detailed recently, the chatbot will generate automated alerts when it detects a teen in conversation, with “signs of acute distress”.
Source: HindustanTimes
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