RR on Monday recorded their fastest 100-plus run chase in the history of IPL. RR chased down 128-run target in 12.1 overs (73 deliveries) against CSK in their IPL 2026 opener. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi top-scored for RR with 52 runs off 17 deliveries. RR's previous fastest 100-plus run chase had come in 13.1 overs.

US financial research firm Morpheus Research claimed MakeMyTrip "openly defies" Indian regulators like CCI, cheats customers, and falsely inflates profits via accounting tricks. Revealing that it has shorted MakeMyTrip shares, Morpheus claimed the startup prohibits hotels from selling rooms at lower prices elsewhere. It said MakeMyTrip does this despite CCI's 2022 order fining it $26.1 million.

Chennai Super Kings' (CSK) IPL 2026 match against Rajasthan Royals today is the first instance of them playing without MS Dhoni or Suresh Raina. CSK had played all of their 277 matches in a row with either Dhoni or Raina in the playing XI. Dhoni has been officially ruled out of IPL for at least two weeks due to injury.

After Pakistan claimed it's ready to host talks between US and Iran to end the war, Tehran said it's not part of Pakistan's plan. "Pakistan's forums are their own. We didn't participate," Consulate General of Iran in Mumbai said, citing a spokesperson of Iran's Foreign Ministry. "Regional calls to end war are welcome, but remember who started it," it added.

HDFC Bank Chairman Atanu Chakraborty, who quit abruptly on March 18, broke silence by explaining some of the ethical "incongruencies" at the bank. Chakraborty said customer onboarding and conduct lapses in the bank's Dubai operations were called "technical" lapses by CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan, but they also brought reputational risk. "We don't dig well after fire has taken place," Chakraborty said.