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…

Channel
Forbes India
@forbesind
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
8,471subscribers
+61 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001400490709 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @forbesind |
| Created | Between 1 August 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 | 8 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 8 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/forbesind |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Engagement
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.
- ERR · 30 days
- 5.05%
- avg views ÷ 8,471 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 427
- 29 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.142%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 29
- of 64 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 3 of 29 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 27 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 64 (3 August 2026 – 27 August 2026) |
| Views total | 12,396 |
| Reactions total | 2 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 28 Aug 2026, 17:17 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Reaction mix
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.
Recent posts
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.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
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.
@bsindiaofficial · 79,643
Telegram ranks this channel #3 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 18 August 2026
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Telegram ranks this channel #7 of 95 here — alongside 94 others — read 12 August 2026
@livemint · 113,465
Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 14 August 2026
@The_Hindu_Editorial_News · 51,309
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 25 August 2026
@indianexpress · 122,029
Telegram ranks this channel #11 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 14 August 2026
@zerodhain · 54,012
Telegram ranks this channel #18 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 24 August 2026
@THnewsupdates · 248,929
Telegram ranks this channel #20 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 10 August 2026
@BUSINESS_STANDARD_NEWSPAPER_PDF · 30,505
Telegram ranks this channel #22 of 49 here — alongside 48 others — read 7 September 2026
@hindustantimes · 63,473
Telegram ranks this channel #23 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 21 August 2026
@hbr_uz · 28,104
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 58 here — alongside 57 others — read 10 September 2026
@ndtvprofitnews · 48,390
Telegram ranks this channel #26 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 26 August 2026
@moneycontrolcom · 237,601
Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 11 August 2026
@TheFinancialExpressOnline · 45,684
Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 27 August 2026
@Ayyappan_devotional_god_Status · 39,697
Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 43 here — alongside 42 others — read 30 August 2026
@growwdigest · 51,350
Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 24 August 2026
@researchreportss · 65,281
Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 21 August 2026
@livelawindia · 38,857
Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 31 August 2026
@linktopusjobupdates · 67,132
Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 20 August 2026
@cnbc_tv18 · 77,895
Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 19 August 2026
@nclex_exam · 42,415
Telegram ranks this channel #42 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 29 August 2026
@actives_english · 29,112
Telegram ranks this channel #52 of 61 here — alongside 60 others — read 8 September 2026
@MyGovCoronaNewsdesk · 378,359
Telegram ranks this channel #53 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 10 August 2026
This channel appears in 22 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
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 8 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Forbes India” (@forbesind), 8,471 subscribers as measured 8 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.