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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicCraft beer

Topic: Craft beer

‘Can’t bottle or keg, sell to other businesses’ — what’s holding back Delhi’s microbrewery scene

5 yrs after they were allowed in Delhi, the city still has only 6 microbreweries. Owners say restrictive excise policy poses many challenges & leaves them with little room to experiment.

India’s craft beer craze could boost Australian barley farmers hit by Chinese tariffs

Microbrewery owners in India say there’s a lot of business interest in the beer industry. Any additional demand from brewers would mean a boon for Australian barley prices.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.