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Monday, March 16, 2026
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Topic: Podcasts

People trust podcasts over social media

A study analysing more than 36,000 political podcast episodes found nearly 70% contained at least one unverified or false claim.

Gen Z has found a keeper in Spotify, Apple podcasts. Navya Nanda, Ahsaas Channa lead boom

India has the third-largest podcast listener base globally, just behind US and China—a number expected to rise to 17.61 million by 2023.

Self-love & storytelling — How India saw a podcast boom in the pandemic year 2020

Time Indians spent on audio streaming platforms grew by 42% in March last year. Spotify, JioSaavn and Gaana also diversified their podcast offerings in 2020 to meet growing demand.

Kashmir, parenting, sex – Podcasts are finally giving Indians what they want to hear

Years after people had written the obituary for the radio, audio is making a comeback in India. And the medium is the message.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.