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13 November 2026 · Rate-hike fear ends a three-day rally. Sensex sheds 319 as crude returns to $96. Every sector closed red on Friday as October inflation above the RBI band and a rebound in oil pushed investors to price higher interest rates. The fear gauge fell. This was a repricing, not a panic.
13 November 2026 · Washington promises India a tariff edge over rivals. Now sign it and ship. The US has assured India lower tariffs than competing economies under the first phase of the trade deal. Piyush Goyal says an announcement could come quite soon. Dairy and GM crops stay off the table.
13 November 2026 · 3,358 Agniveers pass out at INS Chilka. The Navy’s largest batch has 142 women. The ninth Agniveer batch is the largest ever trained at INS Chilka. Navy chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan told them machines are changing war at sea and judgment still decides it.
13 November 2026 · 22 bids for 10 GWh of grid batteries. India now needs cells made, not just awarded. Reliance, JSW, Amara Raja, Exide and 18 others bid for 10 GWh of battery cell capacity reserved for grid storage under the ₹18,100 crore PLI. The 40 GWh awarded earlier is still mostly on paper.
13 November 2026 · ₹15,600 crore for Karnataka. The wires for 4.5 GW of clean power matter most. The Prime Minister opens Bengaluru’s Metro Pink Line, dedicates India’s largest underground LPG cavern and switches on two renewable transmission schemes today. Most of the money goes into power, rail and fuel.
13 November 2026 · Retail inflation hits 6.09% and breaches the RBI ceiling. Food is doing the damage. October CPI rose to 6.09% from 5.54% in September. Food inflation reached 8.94% and onion prices were 116% higher than a year ago.
13 November 2026 · Bodhi Tree buys control of A2B for $180 million. Uday Shankar will chair the board. The Chennai sweets and restaurant chain built by two brothers over five decades has sold a majority stake to the platform founded by James Murdoch and Uday Shankar. The plan is global growth and a possible listing.
12 November 2026 · India U19 reach the Asia Cup final. Pakistan, who beat them last week, wait on Saturday. Lakshya Raichandani made 93 as India chased 228 against Afghanistan with eight wickets in hand at Al Amerat. The final against Pakistan is on 14 November.
12 November 2026 · OpenAI now runs its models inside India. Local inference is not yet sovereign AI. OpenAI launched API inference residency in India on 12 November. Requests to GPT-6 Luna can now be processed and stored in the country. The scope is narrow at launch.
12 November 2026 · Rabi fertiliser subsidy rises 64% to ₹62,370 crore. Imported inputs are writing the bill. The Union Cabinet approved nutrient-based subsidy rates for phosphatic and potassic fertilisers for October to March. The government points to world prices of urea, DAP, potash and sulphur.
12 November 2026 · Abu Dhabi ends with a prisoner swap, not a peace. The Black Sea still waits. Russia, Ukraine and the US agreed a large-scale prisoner exchange after two days of talks. Territory is still the hard part. US envoys fly to Moscow on Thursday.
12 November 2026 · INS Betwa trades steam for diesel. A ₹498 crore refit keeps a frigate in the line. The Defence Ministry has signed a ₹498.58 crore contract with Cochin Shipyard to refit and re-power the Brahmaputra-class frigate. More than 50 MSMEs are expected to share the work.
11 November 2026 · Stand-Up India and Mudra guarantees run to 2031. The state shares the risk of first loans. The Union Cabinet has extended two credit guarantee schemes for five years, with ₹4,111 crore for Stand-Up India and ₹5,000 crore for Mudra. Banks get cover. First-time founders get a better chance at a yes.
11 November 2026 · Hardik Pandya leaves Mumbai for Punjab. Arshdeep Singh goes the other way at ₹18 crore. Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings have completed the biggest swap of the IPL 2027 trade window. Each side gives up a match-winner to fill a gap.
11 November 2026 · Sensex rises 1,400 points on an Iran pause. A pause is not a peace. Markets reopened after Diwali with the Sensex up as much as 1,411 points. Cheaper oil, a US hold on fresh Iran strikes and eight days of foreign buying did the work.
11 November 2026 · ShareChat crosses ₹1,000 crore. Live video and microdramas now pay the bills. Mohalla Tech’s revenue rose about 40% to ₹1,016 crore in FY26. Advertising shrank. Livestreaming and Quick TV subscriptions carried the year, while the loss depends on what you count.
10 November 2026 · Supreme Court tells WhatsApp and the banks to share the load against digital arrest scams. WhatsApp and other platforms must tell the court how they will stop digital arrest scams. Banks that miss the warning signs could have to repay victims in full.
10 November 2026 · India offers the plumbing of peace: safe Black Sea shipping, grain and energy first. After calls with Zelenskyy and Lavrov, New Delhi has set out its ideas to both Russia and Ukraine. They are practical: protect commercial ships, keep grain and energy moving, agree not to attack.
10 November 2026 · Blackstone set to take 15% of IIFL Finance. Long money for secured lending. Reports put Blackstone’s cheque at about ₹5,000 crore for a 15% stake, with the promoters adding about ₹1,200 crore. IIFL Finance’s board meets today to consider the raise.
10 November 2026 · India and the EU review the partnership. The trade deal now needs a signature. The 7th India-EU Strategic Partnership Review in New Delhi pressed for timely signing of the FTA and kept work going on investment protection and geographical indications.
10 November 2026 · Paras and BroadPak plan a 3D chip packaging plant. India moves up the stack. Paras Semiconductors has partnered with San Jose’s BroadPak to build an advanced packaging and test facility in India. Chiplets and AI hardware are where packaging now decides performance.
10 November 2026 · Punjab logs 1,152 farm fires on Diwali. A season of gains is undone in one day. The state’s tally rose from 3,307 to 4,459 in a single day. It is now 23% above the same point last year. FIRs and fines have not changed the economics of the straw.
10 November 2026 · An Indian-built destroyer in Muscat. INS Surat leads the 15th Naseem Al Bahr with Oman. INS Surat reached Muscat on 8 November for four days of drills with the Royal Navy of Oman, followed by a coordinated patrol. Oman sits at the mouth of the route that carries India’s oil.
9 November 2026 · State banks carry the Nifty past 25,000. IT slips as money rotates away from the AI trade. The Sensex closed at 81,106.65 and the Nifty at 25,044.65 on Monday. PSU banks rose more than 3%. IT was the weakest sector. Markets are shut on Tuesday for Balipratipada.
9 November 2026 · COP31 opens in Antalya. India speaks for the Global South and must also sell what it builds. The UN climate talks run in Türkiye from 9 to 20 November, with Australia leading the negotiations. India’s delegation arrives today. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav joins in the second week.
9 November 2026 · MakeMyTrip’s India arm gets SEBI nod to list at home. The parent is the seller. SEBI has cleared the IPO of MakeMyTrip (India), the Gurugram-based unit of the Nasdaq-listed travel company. The issue is an offer for sale by its parent and ibibo, so no new money goes to the Indian company.
9 November 2026 · Anuj Shrivatri becomes India’s 100th Grandmaster, 38 years after Anand. The 22-year-old won the ASEAN Plus Individual Open in the Philippines and with it the Grandmaster title. He is Madhya Pradesh’s first.
8 November 2026 · Rajput’s 107 is not enough. Pakistan beat India by three wickets in the U19 Asia Cup. India were bowled out for 208 in Al Amerat, Oman. Hamza Zahoor’s unbeaten century took Pakistan home in the 49th over.
8 November 2026 · Cancer drugs get cheaper from 9 November as India caps trade margins on 137 medicines. The NPPA has capped trade margins at 30% on 137 anti-cancer drugs. More than 600 brands cut prices by over half. The estimated saving to patients is ₹3,502 crore a year.
8 November 2026 · Samvat 2083 opens flat. The Muhurat rally fades as markets price earnings, not festivals. The Sensex closed Sunday’s Diwali session at 80,999 and the Nifty at 24,986. An eight-session run ended. Pharma and metals rose. IT, telecom and private banks slipped.
8 November 2026 · An IL-76 lands at 13,629 feet near the LAC. Ladakh’s newest airbase can now take heavy lift. The Indian Air Force landed an IL-76MD at Nyoma in eastern Ladakh on Saturday. The IAF calls it the highest landing the aircraft type has made anywhere in the world.
7 November 2026 · Karnataka finds 31% ethanol in petrol. Oil companies say 19%. One joint test can settle it. Karnataka says some petrol samples carry up to 31.2% ethanol. Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL say 893 samples across India met the 20% standard and ask for joint testing.
7 November 2026 · Delhi reaches Diwali at AQI 369. The forecast says severe. The fixes are known. Sixteen of 59 stations were already in the severe band on Saturday. The early warning system expects severe air on 8 and 9 November.
7 November 2026 · Gurnoor Brar takes four and rain saves a wobbling chase. India lead New Zealand 2-0. India bowled New Zealand out for 134 in Wellington, then slipped to 113 for 7 before rain stopped play. They were four runs ahead of the DLS par.
7 November 2026 · Sebi’s new settlement rules start today. Small cases get a fast track and an online form. The 2026 settlement regulations replace the 2018 framework from 7 November. Settlements up to ₹10 lakh with no disgorgement can move through a faster procedure.
6 November 2026 · Sagar Defence raises ₹300 crore at a ₹20,000 crore value. The IPO will test the price. The Pune maker of unmanned systems closed its pre-IPO round two days after Sebi cleared its papers. The listing is estimated at around ₹3,000 crore.
6 November 2026 · Pralay clears user trials and the Navy takes Amini. Two steps from lab to service. DRDO says induction of the Pralay quasi-ballistic missile is now imminent after Thursday’s test off Odisha. The same day GRSE delivered the Navy its fifth shallow-water anti-submarine craft.
6 November 2026 · Sensex and Nifty post their best week since 2021. Foreign money came back for banks. The Sensex rose 1,718 points to 81,028 on Friday and the Nifty closed above 25,000. Both gained more than 8.5% in a week when Wall Street and Asia fell hard.
6 November 2026 · India trail Japan at half-time, then score four in 12 minutes for a sixth Asian title. India beat Japan 4-1 in the Asian Champions Trophy final in Mohali on Thursday. It is a third title in a row and a record sixth overall.
6 November 2026 · Wall Street dumps AI data centre stocks. Indian IT rises. Power bills are the new risk. The S&P 500 fell 4.36% on Thursday, its worst day since April 2025, led by Nvidia, AMD and CoreWeave. On Friday Asia fell hard while India’s IT stocks gained.
5 November 2026 · Sebi sets one $5 million limit on rupee derivatives. Above it, show real exposure. A Sebi circular on Thursday replaces contract-by-contract limits with a single cap across all rupee pairs and exchanges. It follows the RBI’s cut from $100 million in October.
5 November 2026 · Shiprocket books a ₹60 lakh profit on ₹674 crore revenue. Other income covered the gap. The listed e-commerce logistics company moved from a ₹20.3 crore loss a year ago. Its core earns well. Its newer businesses still lose money.
5 November 2026 · Centre weighs a panel to revisit UGC equity rules. Campuses stay on the 2012 norms. The Solicitor General told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the government is contemplating a committee. The 2026 regulations stay on hold and the case returns in four weeks.
5 November 2026 · Tonbo earns ₹23.5 crore in its first listed quarter. One quarter does not set a run rate. The Bengaluru defence tech maker reported revenue of ₹183.3 crore against ₹36 crore a quarter earlier. The stock has about doubled from its ₹700 issue price in ten sessions.
5 November 2026 · Iran says Indian ships can pass Hormuz for a fee. A permit is not free navigation. An Iranian MP named India, China, Iraq and Qatar as exempt from Tehran’s restrictions. Indian and Chinese ships pay a transit fee. No Indian response has been reported.
5 November 2026 · Centre weighs ending safe harbour for platforms whose algorithms choose the feed. Talks on Section 79 of the IT Act are at an early stage and no decision has been taken. Peer-to-peer messaging would stay protected. Any change needs an amendment.
5 November 2026 · Brent falls 8.7% on a US election. India should bank the relief, not plan on it. Oil closed at $94.62 after Republicans lost Congress. The rupee and the Nifty gain from it. The Gulf’s supply problem has not moved.
5 November 2026 · India beat South Korea 8-1 to reach the final. Japan will ask harder questions. Six Indian players scored in Mohali. Japan arrive in tonight’s final after keeping Malaysia scoreless and converting all five shootout attempts.
4 November 2026 · Supreme Court says two-child laws have lost relevance. Six states still have them. Two judges sent the 2003 Javed ruling to a larger bench. India’s fertility rate has fallen from about 3 to 1.9 since it was written.
4 November 2026 · Cabinet backs 92 GWh of storage. The test is how much of it gets made in India. ₹14,500 crore in viability gap funding goes to grid storage, and ₹2,814 crore to lithium and nickel processing. The money is approved. The bid rules will decide who builds.
4 November 2026 · Agniveers get a second tour of duty. Pay and selection rules are still to come. The 75% who were due to leave after four years will be offered two more, and a route into the regular forces after that. The first batch was weeks from the door.
4 November 2026 · Democrats take both houses of Congress. India’s tariff file stays at the White House. AP reports the Senate has flipped and the major US networks project the House. India’s tariffs rest on presidential powers, so the trade deal still has to close with the same desk.
4 November 2026 · IndiaAI releases three home-built models. Now they have to earn users. Soket’s EKA-1 covers all 22 scheduled languages. ZenteiQ’s Dhīr models can run on a phone without the cloud. No independent benchmarks came with them, so use is the test.
4 November 2026 · Razorpay clears Sebi, reports say. The valuation sits a third below 2021. The payments company that moved home from the US can now go to the public market. Reports put the issue at up to ₹6,500 crore at about $5 billion. Neither Razorpay nor Sebi has confirmed it.
4 November 2026 · CERT-In gets access to Anthropic’s Mythos. It will test slowly. India’s cyber emergency team can now use the model that finds software flaws at scale. IT Ministry sources say every test will be routed with care because the cure should not be worse than the problem.
3 November 2026 · Sitharaman will “consider” the LTCG case. Markets gain about 5% in four sessions. The Finance Minister recognised the foreign investors’ complaint and promised no cut. On Tuesday the Sensex rose 1,225 points to 76,917.85. Oil, earnings and foreign buying share the credit.
3 November 2026 · GIVA raises ₹975 crore from Multiples. The next 160 stores go mainly to smaller cities. The Bengaluru jewellery brand closes a round of about $100 million, part primary and part secondary. FY26 revenue rose to ₹865 crore. Profit after tax is targeted for FY28.
3 November 2026 · NSE’s first results as a listed company: up 23% on a year, down 17% on a quarter. Last year’s ₹1,297 crore Sebi provision flatters the annual number. Cash market volume grew 24%. Options premium grew 3%.
3 November 2026 · Modi sets a second 500 GW clean power goal. The weak link is now cells, wires and storage. India has about 310 GW of non-fossil capacity and is still chasing 500 GW by 2030. The PM wants another 500 GW in 10 to 11 years and says it is somewhat difficult.
3 November 2026 · SBI earned ₹23,038 crore. Before the stake sale, operating profit fell 1.4%. State Bank’s second-quarter profit rose 14.3%. A one-time gain and lower provisions did much of the lifting. Loans grew 17.84%. Deposits grew 12.27%.
3 November 2026 · India signs ₹53,866 crore for eight Navy-designed corvettes. The build clock starts. The Defence Ministry signed with GRSE and Goa Shipyard on Monday. The value is well above the “over ₹40,000 crore” reported at clearance. First ship is expected around 2030.
3 November 2026 · India is now ChatGPT’s largest market, says OpenAI. The users are ours. The model is not. OpenAI’s India head Prabhjeet Singh says weekly users have doubled since January, lifting India from second place. He gave no total. Voice, Hindi, UPI and ads come next.
3 November 2026 · A reported US strike on Qeshm follows Brent’s 7.6% fall. Talks and strikes run together. The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, says the US hit Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday. Brent had just settled at $104.77. Trump says a deal could happen. Tehran says contacts continue.
3 November 2026 · India drew $300 billion of data centre pledges. IndiaAI’s GPUs reportedly sit 80% idle. A Rhodium Group report argues India is building AI capacity faster than it can use it, mostly for global clouds. Its bright spot is services, where Indian engineers close the gap between a model and a working business.
3 November 2026 · Cyclone Murasu comes ashore near Ongole. Restoration is now the test. IMD said the eye was entering the coast before dawn, with winds of 100–110 kmph. The reports available at 07:15 IST carry no confirmed count of deaths or damage. Andhra Pradesh’s second storm in a week is now a restoration job.
3 November 2026 · India beat South Korea 8-0 to finish unbeaten. They meet again on Wednesday. Seven players scored in Jalandhar as India closed the Asian Champions Trophy league with five wins from five. The semi-final is against the same opponent, in Mohali.
2 November 2026 · Affle agrees to buy Nasdaq-listed Perion for $420 million. Indian tech is buying West. The all-cash offer pays $11.70 a share, a 34.5% premium. Perion holds $228 million of its own cash. A go-shop runs to 11 December and closing is expected in early 2027.
2 November 2026 · Electric cars nearly double in October as fuel stays dear. They are now 7% of new cars. Vahan shows 35,777 registrations against 18,055 a year ago. Electric two-wheelers hit a record too, but their share of the market slipped in the festive rush.
2 November 2026 · Sebi asks the Centre to drop LTCG for foreign investors. The Budget decides. Reuters reports Sebi wants long-term capital gains tax scrapped for foreign portfolio investors. It is a recommendation, not a decision. In July the government told Parliament it had no such plan.
2 November 2026 · Trump gives Iran talks more time. Brent falls to $110. India’s bill stays at war prices. Oil fell over 3% on Monday after Axios reported Trump told Netanyahu that diplomacy needs more time. Sensex added over 900 points by late morning. Ships are still being hit in the Gulf.
2 November 2026 · Cyclone Murasu is due on the Andhra coast tonight, a week after Arnab. IMD expects landfall near Ongole between about 23:30 tonight and 04:00 Tuesday, with winds of 100–110 kmph. Andhra Pradesh is moving people out of low-lying areas. Power and phone lines are the next test.
2 November 2026 · India retires its 1937 aircraft rules. Fares stay free but must be shown in full. The Civil Aviation Ministry notified the Bharatiya Vayuyan Niyam, 2026 on 31 October. It replaces the Aircraft Rules, 1937 from 1 January 2027 and lets the Centre step in on fares only in extraordinary situations.
2 November 2026 · Record car sales in October. Maruti’s 59% export jump is the bigger number. Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Kia and Mahindra posted their best domestic months on record and Tata Motors grew 21%. Maruti also shipped close to 50,000 vehicles abroad.
1 November 2026 · Harmanpreet’s hat-trick beats Malaysia 4-2. India make it four from four. The captain scored from two penalty corners and a penalty stroke in Jalandhar. India lead the Asian Champions Trophy table with 12 points and play South Korea on Monday.
1 November 2026 · Opposition takes the voter roll fight to Ramlila Maidan. Trust in the roll is the stake. The INDIA bloc rallied in Delhi to demand the Chief Election Commissioner’s exit over the revision of voter lists. The BJP called it drama. The Commission says wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol.
1 November 2026 · GST hits ₹2.31 lakh crore in October. Lower rates are now paying for themselves. Gross GST rose 22.9% in October, with import revenue up 42%. A year after the rate cuts, the tax base is widening, not shrinking.
1 November 2026 · UPI now moves over ₹1 lakh crore a day. Next comes the bill for running it. NPCI data for October shows 25.47 billion UPI payments worth ₹31.53 lakh crore. The daily average crossed ₹1 lakh crore for the first time, as a small merchant fee waits until after Diwali.
1 November 2026 · The Quad in Atlanta: recycle the minerals, fund trusted AI, call out coercion. Foreign ministers of India, the US, Japan and Australia met on the sidelines of the G20 in Atlanta. They pledged over $85 million for trusted AI and backed recovering critical minerals from e-waste in India and ASEAN.
1 November 2026 · India win both Commonwealth Kabaddi titles in Ahmedabad. Eight from eight for the men. The women beat Uganda 35-15 and the men beat Sri Lanka 54-20 on the same night. The inaugural championship ends with a home double.
31 October 2026 · The PM clears a northern bullet train corridor. Delhi to Varanasi in 3.5 hours. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says the Prime Minister has approved a high-speed line from Delhi through Uttar Pradesh to Patna and Siliguri. Fares, he says, will be well below airfares.
31 October 2026 · Ashutosh Dixit takes command of the IAF. His job is to turn orders into squadrons. A test pilot and former Vice Chief becomes the 29th Chief of the Air Staff as AP Singh retires after 42 years. The fighter gap is the first file on his desk.
31 October 2026 · Gig workers get a national board. Platforms get a seat and a bill of 1–2% of turnover. The Labour Ministry has constituted the National Social Security Board for unorganised, gig and platform workers. It will recommend the schemes that aggregator contributions pay for.
31 October 2026 · World Bank: extreme poverty in India fell to 2.6% by 2023. Jobs grew, wages did not. The October 2026 Poverty and Equity Brief estimates about 496 million people left poverty between 2011 and 2023. It also finds flat real earnings and youth unemployment rising to 15.9%.
31 October 2026 · Six months to redesign Indian banking: Suresh N Patel to lead the Centre’s review. The Finance Ministry has set up the High Level Committee on Banking for Viksit Bharat. Its brief runs from prudential norms and capital needs to the cost of credit, priority sector lending and AI.
31 October 2026 · NVS-03 restores NavIC to four working satellites. India navigates on its own again. GSLV-F18 lifted off from Sriharikota at 11:51 pm on 30 October and placed the 2,250 kg satellite in transfer orbit. It adds an L1 signal and an Indian atomic clock.
31 October 2026 · No more GST arrests: CBIC acts on the Council’s call before the law catches up. Instruction No. 02/2026-GST stops arrests, bars notices below ₹10,000 and limits highway checks on goods in transit. It applies now, ahead of CGST Act amendments proposed for April 2027.
31 October 2026 · India beat Japan 4-1 and reach the Asian Champions Trophy semi-finals. Abhishek scored twice in his 150th international as the defending champions made it three from three in Jalandhar. Malaysia, also unbeaten, are next on Sunday.
31 October 2026 · MeitY drafts a consent-led data pipe for AI training, built on the UPI playbook. The DEPA for AI Training framework, prepared with iSPIRT, would let startups and researchers train models on bank, hospital and public data without ever seeing the raw records.
31 October 2026 · Fiscal deficit hits 42% of the year’s target by September as excise falls 22%. The Centre’s deficit for April to September was ₹7.14 lakh crore, against 36.5% of target a year ago. Capex is ahead of pace. Revenue is behind it.
31 October 2026 · Brent closes at a six-month high after a limpet-mine attack on a Hormuz tanker. Brent settled near $117.6 on 30 October, its highest close since late April, as tanker attacks and Houthi strikes kept the war premium in oil. Traders are now watching the US vote on 3 November.
30 October 2026 · Bank of Baroda posts its highest quarterly profit as bad loans fall to 1.78%. Net profit rose 35.8% to ₹6,532 crore in July to September. Fee and other income nearly doubled. Advances grew 18.3% and gross NPAs fell to 1.78%.
30 October 2026 · India clears ₹40,000 crore for eight Navy-designed corvettes, built in Kolkata and Goa. The Cabinet Committee on Security has approved eight next-generation corvettes. GRSE builds five and Goa Shipyard three. Contracts are expected within days.
29 October 2026 · India beat China 5-2 to make it two from two at the Asian Champions Trophy. Sukhjeet Singh and captain Harmanpreet Singh scored twice each in Jalandhar. The win came with unconverted penalty corners that Korea will not forgive on Friday.
29 October 2026 · Cancer drugs get cheaper from 9 November as NPPA reprices 543 brands. The price regulator has published new maximum retail prices after capping trade margins at 30% on 137 anti-cancer drugs. Some brands fall by more than 70%.
29 October 2026 · Workers’ savings may finally back Indian startups as EPFO drafts a 3% plan. EPFO is drafting rules to put up to 3% of its fresh annual inflows into SEBI-regulated Category I and II funds. Its trustees take up the proposal in November.
29 October 2026 · The Fed holds in a split vote. A rupee near 95 shows what it costs India. The US Federal Reserve kept its rate at 3.75–4% with two members voting for a hike. Markets still price a December increase, and the RBI is selling dollars to steady the rupee.
29 October 2026 · India puts ₹10,000 crore behind making the boxes its trade moves in. The Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme pays makers for output, cuts their loan costs and funds testing. The target is a tenfold rise in capacity to 7.5 lakh TEUs a year.
28 October 2026 · Cabinet backs a ₹1,857 crore plan to make India a sports goods supplier to the world. The Khelo India Sports Goods Manufacturing Scheme runs to 2033–34. It pairs dedicated manufacturing zones with output-linked support and help with global certification.
28 October 2026 · Neelam Sirohi takes world silver as two Indian women reach Worlds finals for the first time. Neelam lost the 50kg final in Astana to Japan’s Yui Susaki. Kajal Dhochak, 18 and on her senior debut, wrestled for 76kg gold on the same night. India leave with at least two world medals in women’s freestyle.
28 October 2026 · Rajnath Singh meets the US, Japan and Australia in Cebu. Co-production is the test. At the ADMM-Plus in the Philippines, India’s defence minister reviewed ties with all three Quad partners in one day. No new agreement was announced.
28 October 2026 · India’s armed forces get a home-built AI stack as Sarvam signs a five-year MoU. HQ Integrated Defence Staff and Sarvam have agreed a framework for AI projects across the Army, Navy and Air Force. The models will run on sovereign infrastructure with humans in charge of operational decisions.
28 October 2026 · Jio Platforms lists at a 21% premium as India’s largest IPO meets the market. Shares opened at ₹1,358 on NSE and BSE against an issue price of ₹1,119. At that price Reliance’s digital arm is worth about ₹12.5 lakh crore.
28 October 2026 · Cyclone Arnab reaches the Andhra coast after over 80,000 are moved to safety. The very severe cyclonic storm began its landfall near Yanam overnight, with winds up to 135 km/h. The test now shifts from warning to restoration.
28 October 2026 · Tata Motors takes control of Iveco as its €3.4 billion offer turns unconditional. Shareholders tendered 87.81% of Iveco’s capital. Tata’s commercial vehicle arm will hold about 89.42% net of treasury shares when it pays on 30 October.
27 October 2026 · India open their Asian Champions Trophy defence with a 13-0 win over Bangladesh. Eight different players scored in Jalandhar. Mandeep Singh found form with a hat-trick as the defending champions led 6-0 at half-time.
27 October 2026 · HCLTech opens two chip engineering centres in India for Japan’s Rapidus. The Bengaluru and Hubli centres will do mask design, process design kits and layout for the Japanese advanced logic chipmaker. HCLTech will also train Indian engineers for Rapidus’ work in Japan.
27 October 2026 · Liechtenstein makes its first state visit to India, with TEPA investment on the table. Hereditary Prince Alois held talks with Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi and brought a business delegation. The India–EFTA pact behind the visit carries a $100 billion investment goal.
27 October 2026 · DAC clears ₹2.12 lakh crore of defence buys, with 82% to come from Indian industry. The Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Rajnath Singh approved drones, counter-drone systems, guns, helicopters and air defence for all three services. About 82% of the value is to be sourced in India.
27 October 2026 · Ather Energy posts its first quarterly profit as it adds 2.25 lakh units of capacity. The electric scooter maker earned ₹1.26 crore in the September quarter on revenue up 62.9%. Its board approved ₹122 crore to expand the Hosur and AURIC plants.
26 October 2026 · Tata Communications commits ₹4,350 crore to a 10,000 km fibre spine for India’s AI. The AI Super Highway will link data centre hubs from Mumbai to Chennai first, then the east and west coasts. It adds about 6 petabits per second between FY2030 and FY2036.
26 October 2026 · Lula wins a fourth term in Brazil as Flávio Bolsonaro moves to annul the vote. Brazil’s electoral court put Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at 51.8% to Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.2% in Sunday’s run-off. Bolsonaro has refused to concede.
26 October 2026 · Yuki Bhambri beats the top seeds to win the Almaty Open, his first title of 2026. Bhambri and American Ryan Seggerman beat Austria’s Lucas Miedler and Neil Oberleitner 7-6(3), 6-7(1), 10-2 in Sunday’s final. It is his fifth ATP Tour doubles title.
26 October 2026 · Siang dam protests turn violent in Pasighat as the Centre flies in the RAF. Arson followed a bandh against the 11,200 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project. Chief Minister Pema Khandu says nothing will be decided before the studies and without consent.
26 October 2026 · RBI opens a second data centre in Odisha to keep India’s payments running. Prime Minister Modi opened the RBI’s ₹169 crore data centre and cybersecurity institute near Bhubaneswar on Sunday. It will host mission-critical payment and settlement systems.
26 October 2026 · Infosys cuts its FY27 outlook as clients ask for more output per rupee. Profit rose 6 per cent and AI work grew 29 per cent in a quarter. Revenue guidance still fell to 1–2 per cent. The shares slipped over 3.5 per cent on Monday.
25 October 2026 · India hosts BRICS parliaments with a joint statement and terrorism on its list. The 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum opens in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan on 26 October. Iran’s Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf will not attend. A delegation from Tehran will.
25 October 2026 · Mann Ki Baat marks eSanjeevani’s 50 crore consultations: public telemedicine at scale. In the 139th episode the Prime Minister put the national telemedicine service and 1.9 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs on the record. Primary care in India now often starts on a screen.
25 October 2026 · Sindhu takes a game off An Se Young but finishes runner-up at the French Open. The double Olympic medallist lost the Super 750 final in Paris 21-16, 11-21, 12-21 to the world No. 1. It was her second Super 750 final of 2026.
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.