Channel
@forbesind
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
8,491subscribers
+81 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001400490709 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @forbesind |
| Created | Between 1 October 2018 and 30 November 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/forbesind |
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 70% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026, 02:55 | 8,491 | +6 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 19:21 | 8,485 | +14 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 15:42 | 8,471 | -10 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 02:17 | 8,481 | -1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 20:07 | 8,482 | +7 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 16:24 | 8,475 | +15 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 14:07 | 8,460 | +2 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 23:14 | 8,458 | +13 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 01:02 | 8,445 | +6 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 01:05 | 8,439 | +10 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 07:56 | 8,429 | +20 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:07 | 8,409 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:15 | 8,410 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:09 | 8,410 | first reading |
64 posts held, back to 3 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 22 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 64 posts for this entry, the most recent from 27 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
5 reactions across 5 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 40.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 2 | 40.0% | |
| 👍 | 2 | 40.0% | |
| 🤔 | 1 | 20.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 6 of the 64 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 5 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 64 most recent posts we hold, published 3 August 2026 to 27 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
The Showstoppers list of India’s 100 biggest celebrities is a celebration of star power, excellence and influence. These achievers hold considerable sway over people with their aura, brand appeal and impact of their work. The list acknowledges talent from the world of films, OTT, sport, music, television, comedy, art, books and fashion whose achievements for the period between January 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026, are…
India leads with 19 companies in Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list 2026 Singapore comes next with 15 companies followed by China (10), Japan and South Korea (nine each). The firms on the list have raised a total of $2.4 billion to date https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news/india-leads-with-19-companies-in-forbes-asia-100-to-watch-list-2026/2997426/1
The platform will now count a view from the moment a video starts playing, standardising views across formats. But creators will still be paid based on engagement metrics, not headline view counts https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news/youtube-changes-view-counts-raising-stakes-for-creators-and-brands/2997362/1
'Safe food, safe drugs, safe Maharashtra': FDA Commissioned Tukaram Mundhe sits down with Forbes India's Siddhant Konduskar to explain his mission, saying he's not doing 'anything drastic' but just implementing the law; he speaks about how bad the situation is, challenges in food safety regulation and dealing with criticism https://www.forbesindia.com/video/life/how-bad-is-the-food-safety-situation-in-india-tukaram-…
The Maharashtra FDA commissioner on food safety issues, his intensive enforcement drive and coming down heavily on violators https://www.forbesindia.com/article/life/we-have-to-ensure-food-that-is-served-prepared-and-sold-is-safe-tukaram-mundhe/2997355/1
Move will address the biggest concern motorists had with the rollout https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news/india-may-give-drivers-the-option-to-choose-their-fuel-after-e20-backlash/2997306/1
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The pilots have been de-rostered pending confirmatory tests, as Air India screens over 5,000 pilots following the Phuket-Delhi flight incident https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news/two-more-air-india-pilots-return-non-negative-drug-tests/2997264/1
The challenge for corporate boards is to create credible and seamless succession that ensure continuity beyond individuals. But why is India Inc still struggling? https://www.forbesindia.com/article/cover-stories/top-leader-leaves-then-what-corporate-indias-succession-challenge-continues/2997261/1
Depleting water levels and kharif acreage under farming point to longer term decline in rural consumer sentiment https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news/too-early-to-decode-declining-beneficiaries-under-new-rural-job-scheme-experts/2997255/1
The AI race now comes with a $760 billion price tag. Here's how much tech giants are planning to spend to win this space
Once known for luxury e-boats, the LA startup is building $20 million electric tugs for the Port of Long Beach, betting that heavy marine shipping is next to go electric https://www.forbesindia.com/article/global-game/cross-border/arc-bets-big-on-electric-tugboats-to-power-the-future-of-marine-shipping/2997233/1
Dhiraj Seth, Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, steps out from the VIP Terminal of Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on August 16, 2026. Visiting Nepal at the formal invitation of Nepal Army Chief, Seth is the first high-ranking Indian official to visit Nepal since the formation of the new government in March. The visit continues a historical tradition established in 1950, in which the two nei…
Showing the 12 most recent of 64 posts we hold for @forbesind. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 27 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 16 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Forbes India” (@forbesind), 8,491 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/forbesind.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.