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Thursday, April 9, 2026
TopicIndian TV show

Topic: Indian TV show

Eureka Forbes ditches the fear formula, ropes in Gopi Bahu for new water purifier filter ad

Triya Gulati -
The ad reunites the original cast of the StarPlus show Saath Nibhaana Saathiya — Gia Manek, Rupal Patel, and Mohammad Nazim — but gives their familiar dynamic a twist.

Indian TV serials are still stuck on ‘evil women snatching husbands’. OTTs race ahead

Shailaja Bajpai -
The physical violence in soap operas is children playing cops and robber compared to what we witness in OTT specials like Mirzapur.

Glitz, glamour, ‘first-world’ problems—Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives is a guilty pleasure

Tina Das -
Maheep, Bhavana, Seema and Neelam are back with their lives in the second season of Netflix's show. It's the desi version of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

‘Shararat’ — the sitcom Indian kids tuned to for daily dose of magic before Harry Potter

Shyam Nandan Upadhyay -
‘Shararat – Thoda Jaadu, Thodi Nazaakat’ aired on Star Plus from 24 January, 2003 to 17 November, 2006, and centered around the lives of three generations of friendly witches.

Dear Taarak Mehta, you were our peak comfort content for 14 years. Now it’s time to retire

Yashika Singla -
Just like the Truman Show, all Taarak Mehta plots somehow feel the same for the past few years. It's fine to accept that ideas can go stale.

Modern Love: Mumbai is all about ‘ishq, mohabbat, pyaar’. But it’s not that ‘modern’

Tina Das -
Modern Love: Mumbai's attempt to create a desi version of the US series is worth it. But choosing to not show how Covid changed love is too big a miss.

Urfi Javed is Rakhi Sawant 2.0 of street fashion. She has a lesson for TV’s ‘maryada’

Tina Das -
Bigg Boss OTT star Urfi Javed might be the queen of controversy, but her attitude also keeps winning as many hearts. She can't be trolled.

It took Ekta Kapoor to bring Covid on TV. Don’t worry, it’s still a Naagin’s fight

Shailaja Bajpai -
The first episode of Naagin Season 6 on Colors TV pulls no punches: it identifies the enemy as 'Chingistan', although the characters look Eurasian.

Bobby was Bigg Boss’s first gay darling. Today, Salman Khan’s season 15 lacks LGBT+ celebs

Nikhil Rampal -
In the past, Bigg Boss seasons were hotbeds of conversations around sexuality. But where are they after the abolition of section 377.

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Economy

India has enough coal stocks to meet power demand, says govt as war pushes up mining costs

Udit Bubna -
LPG supply eased for more industries, govt says coal gasification is next growth avenue. Centre welcomes US-Iran ceasefire but asks Indians to leave Iran.

Defence

Western theatre against Pakistan to be headed by IAF, Northern theatre under Army to focus on China

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India's military to get Vice Chief of Defence Staff along with one Theatre Commander from each of three services, it is learnt.

National Interest

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

Shekhar Gupta -
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.

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