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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
TopicInfluencer

Topic: influencer

Inside the influencer industry—relevance, relatability and revenue

This is no longer an economy that’s in its nascent stage. A popular creator went from charging Rs 30,000 a post to Rs 3 lakh a post in the span of a couple of years.

Your Honour, like, share, subscribe? Legal influencers are reshaping how young Indians understand law

Bar Councils aren't amused. With line between public legal education & personal brand-building becoming more blurred, they are cracking down on what they call 'unethical canvassing'.

Singham with a twist in Delhi: Influencer woman cop, a businessman’s abduction, 5 arrests

Sub-inspector Neetu Bisht, along with 2 constables, head constable & ‘middleman’, were held Sunday. SI is said to be the mastermind of the operation carried out in west Delhi.

Those ‘what I eat in a day’ videos aren’t fun. They do more harm than good

Very few of these creators have formal qualifications in health or nutrition, increasing the potential for misinformation.

Influencer Kamal Kaur’s body found inside car in Bathinda, ‘got threats from gangster Arsh Dalla last yr’

SSP Bathinda says murder case has been registered. Kaur had informed her family that she was heading to Bathinda for an event on 9 June, it is learnt.

Sharmishta Panoli arrest brings Congress’s Karti, BJP’s Suvendu on same page; Dutch MP also chimes in

Kolkata cops arrested Panoli from Gurugram over Instagram video in which she made alleged controversial remarks on Prophet. Court has remanded her to judicial custody till 13 June.

In HC’s rejection of bail to influencer over hair oil fiasco, a Shakespeare quote on why Cupid is blind

The influencer organised a camp at the Kali Mata Temple in Punjab’s Sangrur in March, where he sold his homemade herbal oil claiming it could cure baldness.

Influencer Apoorva Mukhija returns to Instagram with post on death, rape threats she faced

This was Mukhija’s first public post since the India’s Got Latent controversy erupted.

The age of health-fluencers, blending humour & expertise to bust myths, promote health literacy

From sexual & gut health to paediatrics & daily wellness, influencers like Dr Cuterus, Bacchon Ki Doctor share valuable information & empow viewers to take charge of their own health.

Rise of NEET influencers. They’re filing PILs, forming WhatsApp groups, online communities

Medical influencers such as Dr Dhruv Chauhan have built communities online where they answer students' concerns. They also encourage NEET aspirants to speak to the press.

On Camera

Why sharp selloff in Japanese bonds has a message for India’s budget

Although its overall GDP will soon be bigger than Japan’s, on a per-capita basis India is still 12 times poorer.

India’s looking at 14 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2030, recycling can’t keep up—NITI Aayog

Country's used lithium-ion battery problem is also set to grow sharply in next decade. India 3rd largest e-waste producer with 7% global share but currently recycles only about 10% of it.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.