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Peyush Bansal, the cofounder of eyewear retailer Lenskart Solutions, is the latest Indian to join the billionaire club thanks to the surge of his eyewear company’s shares, driven by a jump in sales. Peyush Bansal, Chief Executive Officer of Lenskart Solutions Limited, attends the Lenskart IPO listing ceremony in Mumbai, India, on November 10, 2025 Shares of SoftBank-backed Lenskart, which went public nine months ago, hit an all-time high of nearly 627 rupees (US$6.55) on the

More than 3 million Indian officials are to spend a year counting every single person in the world's most populous nation, a mammoth task delayed in part by the Covid-19 pandemic. Commuters crowd on a platform as they wait to board suburban trains at a railway station in Mumbai, India, Jan. 20, 2023 The once-in-a-decade population survey, originally due in 2021, will start on April 1 with a short window for citizens who wish to register themselves online, the government said