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• 24 October 2026 · India recover from 70 for 5 to beat New Zealand by four wickets. Tilak Varma and Nitish Kumar Reddy added an unbeaten 69 from 30 balls in Christchurch. India lead the five-match T20I series 2-0.
• 23 October 2026 · Jio Platforms’ ₹30,213 crore IPO closes with record investor demand. Reliance’s digital arm drew more than 12 million applications for India’s biggest share sale. Listing is due on 28 October at a valuation of about ₹10.3 lakh crore.
• 23 October 2026 · Sensex and Nifty slide for a fourth session as Brent nears $117. Oil and Gulf shipping fears pulled Indian stocks lower through the week. Mid and small caps fell hardest, and Swiggy dropped 16 per cent after its results.
• 23 October 2026 · ITBP chief confirms India–China face-offs in Arunachal Pradesh. The border force’s head gave the first official confirmation of face-offs reported since July. The MEA said both sides are using existing mechanisms, and the Opposition asked for a statement in Parliament.
• 22 October 2026 · Browsers distrust eMudhra after eight certificate keys prove guessable. Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft blocked eight intermediate certificates from the Chennai certificate authority. Its board voted to leave the global SSL/TLS business.
• 22 October 2026 · Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia push Brent to a five-month high. An attack on Dammam airport killed two people, one of them an Indian national, and Aramco told staff to leave its Dhahran headquarters.
• 21 October 2026 · AI-found PHP2Shell flaws force emergency patches across the web. Two critical bugs in the PHP engine, found with OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and separately by Wiz, were patched a day early on 21 October as attackers began probing.
• 21 October 2026 · Putin agrees in principle to resume US–Russia–Ukraine talks. After three hours with US envoy Steve Witkoff, Moscow agreed to talks after 10 November, and a first cargo of Russian diesel left for New York.
• 20 October 2026 · India–New Zealand free trade agreement comes into force. From 20 October every Indian export enters New Zealand duty-free. India opened about 70 per cent of its tariff lines and kept dairy and other sensitive sectors out.