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The Election Commission revised SIR schedules for Maharashtra, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Telangana and Nagaland after requests from state poll officers. Maharashtra's claims window now runs to November 13 with final rolls on November 30. Delhi's claims run to November 25, with final rolls on December 22.
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The Supreme Court asked the RBI to require financial institutions to fully compensate digital arrest victims where lapses in their own diligence allowed the fraud. Citing over ₹800 crore lost to impersonators, the court also wants banks to pause transactions that sharply break from an account's usual pattern.
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The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a 2022 Karnataka law validating the 2011 selection of 362 gazetted probationers, a process it called corrupt and nepotistic. The bench said a legislature cannot annul cancellations already upheld by the High Court and the Supreme Court.
Read more at The Hindu →Tens of thousands of fresh voter applications filed in Telangana before the SIR began were rejected because they lacked a declaration form. The EC later said the form was not needed in states without an ongoing SIR, a change that came too late for these applicants.
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RJD's Anil Kumar Jha trailed BJP's Sarvesh Kumar through all 10 rounds of first-preference counting, then won by 450 votes after about 60 hours of transfers. The result puts the RJD level with the BJP on two seats each in Bihar's council polls.
Read more at The Indian Express →West Bengal's cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, decided that teachers newly appointed through the School Service Commission cannot take part in direct politics. Current teachers and those already in elected office are not affected. The move has drawn criticism from teachers' groups.
Read more at The Hindu →Twenty-nine registered unrecognised political parties in Gujarat reported ₹510.41 crore of income in 2024-25, the highest of any state, according to ADR. Delhi and Rajasthan followed. The 734 such parties with available reports declared ₹1,118.49 crore in total income.
Read more at The Hindu →A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant said the Corporate Affairs Ministry had taken over staff appointments at the National Company Law Tribunal. The court said hiring powers should sit with the tribunal's president. It was hearing a plea by contractual NCLT and NCLAT employees.
Read more at The Hindu →Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is expected in Kathmandu on November 4 with the new ambassador Sudhakar Dalela to prepare for Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah's planned India visit. It would be Shah's first bilateral trip abroad since taking office.
Read more at The Hindu →A week after the ITBP chief flagged face-offs with the Chinese PLA, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said transgressions keep happening because China does not recognise the McMahon Line. He said the situation is now normal and the armed forces are guarding the frontier well.
Read more at The Indian Express →Uttar Pradesh revised character verification rules for direct recruitment, making members of organisations that seek to change the system through violent means ineligible for government jobs. The order says political ideology alone cannot be grounds for disqualification. It covers departments, corporations and local bodies.
Read more at The Hindu →The Keralam Assembly passed Bills lifting ministers' monthly pay and allowances from ₹1.08 lakh to about ₹1.3 lakh and MLAs' allowances from ₹70,000 to ₹98,000. The changes take effect on November 1. Benefits were last revised in 2018.
Read more at The Hindu →The BJP will hold three foot marches in Haryana from November 1 to 5 under its Save Democracy campaign, countering opposition protests against the SIR and the CEC. BJP president Nitin Nabin will walk in Rohtak on Haryana Day with Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.
Read more at Hindustan Times →Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee backed the INDIA bloc's protest at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on November 1 over alleged electoral irregularities. In a post on X, she urged students, women, workers and civil society to join, listing EVMs, voter data and counting as concerns.
Read more at Hindustan Times →Keralam's PWD minister P.K. Basheer said the state wants a fresh probe into corruption allegations on the MC Road project from when CEC Gyanesh Kumar was PWD secretary. An earlier vigilance probe was reportedly closed incomplete. A preliminary inquiry has been ordered.
Read more at The Hindu →Tamil Nadu's anti-corruption directorate searched 25 locations connected to former DMK minister K N Nehru over an alleged cash-for-jobs scam in the municipal administration department during 2021 to 2025. DMK supporters gathered outside his Tiruchi home as the searches began.
Read more at The Indian Express →DMK president M.K. Stalin demanded an apology from Chief Minister Vijay after police briefly detained Madras Institute of Development Studies associate professor Kalaiyarasan. Stalin said the academic was targeted for highlighting price rises. The ruling TVK denied any political vendetta.
Read more at The Hindu →PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss welcomed the Tamil Nadu cabinet's approval of a Social Justice Survey, a caste census, and a commission to run it. He urged the government to begin quickly and to appoint a retired High Court judge to head the commission.
Read more at The Hindu →The Delhi High Court issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate on former railway minister Lalu Prasad's challenge to a trial court order framing money laundering charges in the IRCTC hotels case. The matter is listed for further hearing on December 3.
Read more at The Hindu →The Allahabad High Court granted bail to SP leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam Khan and suspended their seven-year sentences in the dual PAN cards case. It refused to stay the conviction, so neither can contest the coming assembly polls.
Read more at Hindustan Times →Former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been named to the BJP's Uttar Pradesh state executive committee for the first time, ahead of a Lucknow meeting to plan for the 2027 assembly polls. Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath are due to address it.
Read more at The Indian Express →The Supreme Court disposed of TMC MP Mahua Moitra's plea seeking public disclosure of the ultimate owners of alternative investment funds and foreign portfolio investors. The bench said it could not order such disclosure without a legal framework requiring it.
Read more at The Times of India →Hearing a pollution case, the Supreme Court said its yearly orders curbing firecrackers at Deepavali had been widely violated. Justice M.M. Sundresh noted Deepavali is a festival of lights and said religious freedom is subject to public health concerns.
Read more at The Hindu →Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins a two-day Gujarat visit on Friday. He will launch projects worth over ₹14,000 crore in Banaskantha, release the 24th PM-KISAN instalment of ₹19,000 crore and open the Bharat Parv festival at Ekta Nagar.
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The finance ministry's nowcasting model puts July to September growth at 7.35%, above the RBI's 7.2% projection, and full-year FY27 growth at 7.3%. Its monthly review warned of considerable uncertainty from high crude prices, rising food inflation and a shaky kharif outlook.
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The IMF said lower crop yields and higher food inflation from the Super El Nino remain risks for India but have not yet materialised. It will reassess its forecasts in January. Earlier this month it raised India's FY27 and FY28 growth projections to 7%.
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Reliance exported an estimated 541,000 barrels a day of diesel in October, its highest in 18 months, according to Kpler. India's total diesel exports rose to 700,000 barrels a day, the most since September 2025, as the West Asia conflict tightened global supply.
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IndiGo posted a ₹1,879 crore net loss for the September quarter as its fuel bill jumped 67.2% to nearly ₹9,967 crore. CEO Willie Walsh said the airline has recovered only about 60% of the increase and has no choice but to lift fares.
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India's pharmaceutical exports grew 4.9% to $16.14 billion in April to September, Pharmexcil said. Europe rose 9.66% to $3.29 billion and ASEAN jumped 21.54%, offsetting a 2.05% fall in shipments to North America, still the largest market.
Read more at The Hindu →Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata has called the Tata Sons resolution reappointing N Chandrasekaran void, arguing it was not on the agenda and lacked a selection committee. A November 5 hearing involving Mehli Mistry adds to the group's crowded month.
Read more at Mint →Equitas Small Finance Bank CEO PN Vasudevan resigned, citing the overhang of a perception issue linked to an NBFC co-promoted by his daughter. He said the arrangement was disclosed and within rules. The bank's shares fell 20% intraday and closed 12.39% lower.
Read more at The Indian Express →The finance ministry said DIPAM's disinvestment guidelines are indicative rather than rigid rules, defending a second bid round in the IDBI Bank sale. It said the reserve price was unchanged and external valuers assessed the bank independently of the bidders' offers.
Read more at Business Today →From December 1, SBI Card will charge 1% on each transport transaction above ₹30,000 and on total fuel spending above ₹50,000 in a billing cycle. A ₹35,000 eligible transport payment would attract a ₹350 charge.
Read more at Business Today →Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari said vehicles doing up to 120 km/h on expressways should not get challans, and that drivers exceeding the limit by up to 20% should also be let off. Some users online did the maths, noting that allows 144 km/h.
Read more at Mint →Commerce minister Piyush Goyal said the proposed India-US trade agreement protects farmers and other sensitive interests and will leave India at a strong comparative advantage. He said people will celebrate once the details are out.
Read more at Business Standard →Larsen and Toubro secured contracts worth up to $1 billion for track, electrical, signalling, telecom and platform screen door systems on Dhaka Metro Rail Line 1, Bangladesh's first underground metro. The line will link Dhaka's airport to Kamalapur.
Read more at The Daily Star →The Karnataka Milk Federation will raise Nandini milk prices by ₹8 a litre from November 1, with ₹7 going to farmers. It is the fifth increase in recent years and follows the end of the model code for the council polls.
Read more at BusinessLine →IKEA India will open an 80,000 sq ft store at Konanakunte Cross in Bengaluru on November 5, stocking over 5,200 products. The retailer is shifting to smaller city stores and targets 30 outlets across India by 2030.
Read more at BusinessLine →In a Blind survey of 2,178 India-based tech professionals, 30% got no raise and 5% took a pay cut. About 59% received 5% or less. Most blamed company finances or AI and automation, and 63% said they were dissatisfied.
Read more at BusinessLine →Adani Airport Holdings and Indian Hotels signed agreements for eight hotels across Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Guwahati under the Taj, Vivanta, Gateway and Ginger brands. Mumbai will get a Taj at Terminal 2.
Read more at The Hindu →Kpler expects Indian LPG demand to drop by about 100,000 barrels a day this year after the Strait of Hormuz closure hit roughly 90% of imports and led to rationing. It forecasts only a partial recovery in 2027 as piped gas expands.
Read more at BusinessLine →Indian companies filed proposals to raise $8.13 billion through external commercial borrowings and convertible bonds in August, up from $7.70 billion in July, RBI data showed. Flipkart Internet sought about $1.14 billion from a foreign equity holder.
Read more at Business Standard →Nike launched Vegam Run, its first running shoe built for Indian runners, developed with input from runners across the country. The company pitches it for daily miles and everyday wear at a more accessible price point.
Read more at Mint →Victorinox will launch an entry-level watch range at about ₹35,000 next year, below its current ₹60,000 to ₹2 lakh range, and start online sales. It is targeting at least 30% watch growth in India in 2027 as Swiss watch imports rise.
Read more at The Hindu →Virat Kohli's stake in Agilitas Sports rose from 1.8% to 6.4% after his sportswear brand One8 merged into the Bengaluru company with NCLT approval. Agilitas said the increase came from the merger and not fresh investment.
Read more at The Economic Times →Milky Mist Dairy Food posted a record quarterly revenue of ₹1,089 crore in Q2 FY27, up 42%, and net profit of ₹78 crore against ₹28 crore a year earlier. The company cited volume growth and value-added products despite 10% to 11% input inflation.
Read more at BusinessLine →The power ministry released a National Electricity Data Sharing framework to standardise and securely share sector data among discoms, generators, grid operators and regulators. Adoption is voluntary and datasets marked non-shareable stay outside it. A new data division will sit within the CEA.
Read more at BusinessLine →PNB Housing Finance's loan book rose 19% in Q2 FY27, while profit grew about 6% to ₹617 crore on higher write-offs. CEO Ajai Kumar Shukla said the company will expand into smaller cities and new products such as micro housing.
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The Enforcement Directorate is investigating Mudrex, Saber.money, DeFi protocol Instadapp and its platform Fluid for alleged FEMA breaches involving stablecoin transfers abroad. It searched three Bengaluru premises and one in Madhya Pradesh on October 27. The Mudrex and Saber.money cases alone exceed ₹4,600 crore.
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Logistics company Shadowfax reported Q2 FY27 net profit of ₹68 crore, up from ₹13 crore a year earlier. Operating revenue rose 57% to a record ₹1,537.7 crore, its sixth straight quarter of growth above 55%, even with the sale season shifting to Q3.
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Pine Labs posted Q2 FY27 net profit of ₹38.6 crore against ₹6 crore a year earlier, as revenue rose 24% to ₹806 crore. Online payments grew over 45%, and its UAE business crossed one lakh daily transactions.
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Paytm CFO Madhur Deora said the proposed merchant discount rate on UPI could add about ₹700 crore of EBITDA a year at current volumes, rising to around ₹900 crore by FY28. NPCI has notified a 0.4% fee on merchant payments above ₹2,000 from after Diwali.
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Trucking platform BlackBuck reported Q2 FY27 net profit of ₹41.4 crore, up 41.8%, on operating revenue of ₹235.3 crore. A sharp fall in tax expense helped, and profit was slightly lower than the previous quarter.
Read more at Inc42 →Spacetech startup Pixxel launched Pixxel Federal, a US subsidiary that will supply satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence to American civilian, defence and intelligence agencies. Pixxel raised $100 million in September, the largest round in Indian spacetech.
Read more at The Economic Times →Nutrition company Ace Blend raised a $9.91 million Series A2 round led by 3one4 Capital, with Fireside Ventures adding to its stake. The money goes to research-led product development and patented nutrition formats, the first due in Q4 FY27.
Read more at YourStory →The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation is drafting guidelines to invest a slice of new inflows in startups and alternative investment funds, five years after the government allowed it. Routes could include the NIIF and SIDBI's Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0.
Read more at Business Standard →India-focused private equity firm One Planet Partners launched its maiden ₹3,000 crore fund with Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, which also took an equity stake in the firm. The fund will back companies in energy transition, mobility and manufacturing.
Read more at YourStory →Keralam deep-tech startup Carbelim, which builds microalgae-based carbon capture and air purification systems, received ₹10 crore from the IIT Madras Unicorn Frontier Fund. It holds 13 patents and expects the money to create 50 jobs.
Read more at BusinessLine →Engineering-led manufacturing startup Venttup raised $3 million in a pre-Series A round led by Rainmatter by Zerodha and Unicorn India Ventures. It plans a precision manufacturing facility and prototyping setup for energy transition, defence, aerospace and space customers.
Read more at BusinessLine →Bengaluru-built, San Francisco-based accounting firm Inkle acquired the bookkeeping division of US small-business finance platform Finally in an all-cash deal. About 100 Finally staff join Inkle's 60-member Bengaluru team, taking headcount to about 160 across five countries.
Read more at YourStory →Axiro Semiconductor, a subsidiary of CG Power and Industrial Solutions, led a funding round in Silicon Valley-based ThinSiC, which develops low-cost silicon carbide power devices. The two also signed a long-term commercial partnership.
Read more at BusinessLine →India's IG Defence signed an exploratory MoU with Oman's MSA Global to co-develop and locally manufacture drone and counter-drone systems for Oman and the Gulf. The pact does not yet confirm any order, factory or deployment.
Read more at YourStory →IndiaMART's Q2 profit rose 10% to ₹90.7 crore on revenue of ₹428.6 crore. Unique business enquiries fell 14%, which CEO Dinesh Agarwal partly blamed on Google AI Overviews. The company has moved some content behind logins.
Read more at MediaNama →The Central Consumer Protection Authority fined Justdial ₹10 lakh for listing ammonium nitrate, a week after acting against seven platforms over hazardous explosive listings. Justdial said it had removed the listings and the impact is limited to the penalty.
Read more at Inc42 →Fino Payments Bank reported a Q2 FY27 net loss of ₹20.9 crore against a ₹15.4 crore profit a year earlier, following operational disruptions in February. Total income fell 16.6% to ₹333.6 crore.
Read more at Inc42 →Thyrocare's Q2 profit dropped to ₹15.2 crore after a ₹45 crore impairment on its imaging subsidiary, which it is selling to Trovera Healthcare for about ₹141.4 crore. Operating revenue rose 25% as it refocuses on pathology.
Read more at Inc42 →BSE SME-listed edtech startup Klassroom reported first-half FY27 net profit of ₹4.8 crore, up 23.8%, as operating revenue rose 21.1% to ₹14.9 crore. Revenue was up nearly 39% on the previous six months.
Read more at Inc42 →Chennai deeptech startup Viridian Ingni Propulsion, incubated at IIT Madras Research Park, raised ₹1.47 crore led by Inflection Point Ventures plus ₹53.75 lakh in grants. It builds electric motors and controllers for EVs, drones and robots and plans pilot production.
Read more at Siliconindia →Noida skincare startup ISLAND Beauty, co-founded by singer and actor Shirley Setia with Korean skincare expert Jinsoon Lee, raised ₹2.58 crore from AJ VC and angels. It pitches Korean formulations adapted for Indian skin and weather.
Read more at Indian Startup Times →Bengaluru cybersecurity firm CloudSEK launched CloudSEK Launchpad for early-stage security startups. The first cohort of 10 gets up to $5,000 each in AI model credits, leadership guidance and customer introductions in India, the Gulf and the US. Applications close November 20.
Read more at YourStory →Zetwerk co-founder Amrit Acharya said his professor father was sceptical when he left a US job to start up. Zetwerk listed on October 23 at ₹159, a 5.3% premium, but closed that day 8.41% below its ₹151 issue price.
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Delhi and neighbouring districts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab have implemented just 40 to 60% of the anti-pollution actions promised to the air quality commission, officials said. Most actions were due by October 31. Rajasthan is the worst performer.
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India could see about 55,000 additional heat-related deaths between October 2026 and March 2027, most of them in March, according to the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab. It puts the global toll linked to the super El Niño at 857,000.
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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said a preliminary assessment puts Cyclone Arnab losses at ₹4,600 crore, with seven lives lost. After an aerial survey of the Krishna and Godavari regions, he said power supply should be fully restored by Saturday.
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Investigators say a bharmar, a muzzle-loading firearm, was the suspected weapon in the death of 19-month-old cheetah KNG22. Five pellets were recovered during surgery. Officials say local staff failed to monitor the animal, and are looking at hunting links in Morena-Sheopur.
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A glacial lake outburst flood was reported at Shintaphu Lake in Bhutan's Gasa district, one of the country's 17 potentially dangerous glacial lakes. India issued an advisory for parts of West Bengal and Assam as water levels could rise along the Sankosh River.
Read more at India Today →A residents' report assessed 24 government bodies on pollution control, wetland restoration and livelihoods. Five, including the CMDA and the Chief Secretary's office, scored zero. It records a fish kill of four to six tonnes in Ennore Creek in August.
Read more at The Hindu →A Division Bench held that water usage charges on hydro power projects under the 2010 Water Resources Act amount to a tax on electricity generation and are unconstitutional. It quashed the demand notices and barred the state from imposing such levies.
Read more at The Hindu →The renewable energy ministry says Indian companies have signed 23 green hydrogen offtake contracts since 2023, covering about 5.5 lakh tonnes a year of hydrogen equivalent. More than 70% of that volume is for export, mainly to buyers in Europe and Japan.
Read more at ET Climate →An iFOREST review of 18 cement companies found the share of groundwater drawn from water-stressed regions rose from 27% to 38% in FY2025. Work-related injuries rose 36.5%, and renewables make up only 5.1% of the sector's energy mix.
Read more at ThePrint →Tamil Nadu's Battery Energy Storage Systems Policy, 2026 requires new solar and wind-solar hybrid projects of 1 MW and above to install storage equal to 10% of their solar capacity.
Read more at Mercom India →Delhi plans to expand its public EV charging network to 32,062 points by December 2029, plus 10 stations for electric trucks backed by an ₹8.9 crore central subsidy. The city added 5,312 points this year, taking the total to 14,225.
Read more at The Times of India →A new study estimates power from Delhi's waste-to-energy plants carries 3.4 kg of fossil CO2 per unit, about 4.7 times the grid average. In a survey near the existing Kodungaiyur incinerator, 79.8% of households reported health problems. The proposed plant costs ₹3,500 crore.
Read more at The Hindu →ACME Solar's Q2 FY27 profit after tax rose 133.5% to ₹2.69 billion as income grew 67.5% on new renewable and battery storage capacity. The company raised its 2030 generation capacity target from 10 GW to 15 GW.
Read more at Mercom India →Many of the 350 lab-bred snow trout fingerlings released into Nainital's Naini lake in April have died. Experts point to low oxygen and warming water. The fish need 8°C to 22°C, and this summer the lake reached 27°C.
Read more at Mongabay India →Coal India's Q2 net profit rose 57% on higher offtake and better prices. Offtake grew 12% to 186.34 million tonnes, while production of 151.37 million tonnes missed its 157.83 million tonne target. It declared a ₹10.25 interim dividend.
Read more at The Hindu →The Supreme Court asked the government how supply would work now that vehicles running on up to E100 are allowed. The road ministry notified the change on October 26, while the petroleum minister said blending will not go beyond 20% for now.
Read more at ET EnergyWorld →Karnataka's cabinet approved the purchase of 4,900 larger garbage collection vehicles for Bengaluru, all fitted with GPS to track whether they cover their routes. The city currently runs 5,200 three-wheelers rated at one tonne each.
Read more at The Hindu →The Kochi Corporation has to biomine an extra 1.26 lakh tonnes of capped legacy waste at Brahmapuram after High Court judges visited the site. The court has monitored the dump since a 2023 fire burned for nearly a fortnight.
Read more at The Hindu →Hero MotoCorp will raise Vida electric two-wheeler capacity from 30,000 to 45,000 units a month by March and to over 80,000 by Q2 FY28. Dealer inventory is down to about a day of sales.
Read more at The Economic Times →Navitas Solar received $20 million, about ₹190 crore, from Switzerland-based responsAbility's Asia Climate Fund. The money will support its expansion, including a planned 2.2 GW solar cell manufacturing plant in India.
Read more at Mint →India ranks among the highest emitters in global aluminium production because smelters run largely on coal power, BigMint reported. The global industry emitted about 848 million tonnes of CO2e in 2024, with China responsible for about 69%.
Read more at ET Climate →A draft Sustainable Mountain Development Policy from SKUAST-Kashmir and the Integrated Mountain Initiative proposes daily caps on tourists and pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir, limits on infrastructure and glacier protection to reduce climate disasters.
Read more at ETV Bharat →Mizoram University researchers described a new gecko, Cyrtodactylus diamensis, from the rocky habitats of Umrangso in Dima Hasao, Assam's forest minister said. The finding was published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.
Read more at India Today NE →The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission approved tariffs proposed by GUVNL to buy 450 MW/900 MWh of standalone battery energy storage under its Phase IX tender, adding another storage block to the state's growing pipeline of battery projects.
Read more at Mercom India →The Solar Energy Corporation of India invited bids for a grid-connected solar project on the elevated section of the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway for the NHAI. Bids are due by December 14, 2026.
Read more at Mercom India →NTPC Green Energy began commercial operation of a further 95.6 MW at its Kalasar solar project from midnight on October 30. Its total commercial capacity is now 11,424.29 MW, up from 11,328.69 MW.
Read more at Business Upturn →Eighteen of the 23 districts that ended the southwest monsoon short of rain have moved out of deficit, officials said. The state's cumulative shortfall narrowed from 16% to under 1% by October 27, driven by the northeast monsoon.
Read more at The Hindu →The ARISE Cities Forum 2026, organised by ICLEI South Asia with the NIUA, ended with the Delhi Declaration calling for cities and local governments to get a stronger role in global climate governance.
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With more than 99% of ballots counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc holds 53 seats in the 120-member Knesset and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot 48, Haaretz reported. Arab list parties hold 19. Neither side reaches the 61 needed, and opposition leaders met to explore a coalition.
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European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will step down on February 7, about nine months before her eight-year term ends. The timing lets EU leaders pick a successor before April's French presidential election. She said she leaves an ECB that is fit for the future.
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European gas prices rose above €100 per megawatt-hour for the first time since 2022. At a meeting in Luxembourg, ministers said asking voters to cut power use is off the table. One senior official said what is left is really crisis management.
Read more at Politico Europe →US Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to Iran's security council secretary Mohsen Rezaei offering to restart talks after Qatari mediation. It asks for upfront nuclear commitments in a process that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days in exchange for sanctions relief.
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The PCE price index rose 0.5% in September, taking annual inflation to 3.6%, well above the Federal Reserve's 2% target. Core PCE rose 3.1%. GDP grew at a 3.4% annualised pace in the third quarter, beating the 3.1% estimate, the Commerce Department reported.
Read more at CNBC →Europe will release 42 million barrels of emergency stocks over three months, half of it diesel, French Economy Minister Roland Lescure said. He expects pump prices to fall by 12 to 18 cents a litre as soon as next week.
Read more at OilPrice.com →Greenpeace says seven tankers carrying about 288,000 tonnes of Russian diesel are heading to the US under a supply deal agreed by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin this month. It is unclear whether they will be allowed to unload amid a legal row.
Read more at The Guardian →Africa CDC chief Jean Kaseya told health ministers that confirmed Ebola cases have reached 10,172 and 4,932 people have died. Ministers agreed to prepare every country for possible cases, coordinate across borders and keep borders open.
Read more at Premium Times →Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, head of strategy and policy at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A Pentagon official said Sylvia is being investigated for leaking classified information about the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war to journalists.
Read more at Al Jazeera →Vladimir Putin said Russia is prepared for a potential war with Europe while insisting Moscow does not want one and supports steps to restore relations. He spoke after a call with the leaders of Norway and Finland.
Read more at The Independent →Chief Executive John Lee and seven officials bowed in apology as a report found decades of failure by government bodies behind last November's fire, which killed 168 people. Housing secretary Winnie Ho has resigned. Some families said the apology was not enough.
Read more at The Guardian →A Russian drone strike hit the main railway station in Dnipro, in central Ukraine, on Thursday morning as passengers waited to board a train. At least 14 people were killed, Al Jazeera reported.
Read more at Al Jazeera →Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said Saturday looks like a very high risk day for public order and will again deploy 70,000 security forces. He said radical groups had called online for violent gatherings from 8 pm on October 31 in many cities.
Read more at The Straits Times →Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said the United States suggested Venezuela hold presidential elections next year, in her first substantive remarks since returning home. Washington backs talks between acting President Delcy Rodriguez's government and opposition groups that exclude her movement.
Read more at The Straits Times →An antiterrorism court sentenced human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha to 10 years on terrorism-related charges after a trial inside Adiala prison. The couple call themselves prisoners of conscience.
Read more at Al Jazeera →Opposition leader Sali Berisha and fellow lawmakers stormed a session in Tirana, setting off flares and smoke bombs in support of protesters demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation. They tried and failed to stop a vote on a new central bank law.
Read more at Al Jazeera →A report by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner found Britain's GCHQ cannot account for a significant number of USB sticks, hard drives and memory cards that may hold sensitive data. Commissioner Brian Leveson said he first raised the issue years ago.
Read more at Politico Europe →King Charles III landed in Guyana at the invitation of President Irfaan Ali, who has publicly asked for an apology as Caribbean leaders press for slavery reparations. Guyana was the site of one of the biggest slave revolts of the colonial era.
Read more at ABC News (AP) →Discount chain Poundland is on the brink after US owner Gordon Brothers cut off funding and rejected a takeover offer from Irish firm Martin Property Group. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the government is ready to support staff and wants to know why the offer was refused.
Read more at BBC News →Ministry of Justice data shows 12,338 people were recalled to custody between April and June while 12,278 were released. Recalls in the year to June hit 52,716, up 27%, adding to the prison capacity crisis.
Read more at The Guardian →Starbucks beat expectations in its home market but international cafes underperformed in its final quarter of fiscal 2026. It guided to adjusted EPS of $3.15 to $3.25 for fiscal 2027 but a 1% revenue decline, weaker than analysts expected.
Read more at CNBC →Patrick Stewart, the British actor known for Shakespeare, Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men, died at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday aged 86, his spokesperson said. He had Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia.
Read more at The Guardian →Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan became the first bowler to take 200 wickets in men's T20 internationals, reaching the mark against Zimbabwe in Sharjah in his 120th match. He averages 13.96 and leads England's Adil Rashid by 29.
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Alphabet shares fell 13%, the biggest drop since Google went public, wiping out roughly $500 billion in value. The company reported negative free cash flow of $9.07 billion for the quarter against the $2.7 billion analysts expected, and kept capex guidance at $195 to $205 billion.
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Google released Gemini 4 Carbon to a small group of cyber defenders. It ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 59, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 at 58 and GPT-6 Astra at 57, and scored 88.2% on the SEC-bench Pro vulnerability test.
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Amazon reported third-quarter EPS of $1.89 against $1.96 expected and revenue of $201.94 billion, slightly short of estimates. AWS beat at $45.98 billion while advertising missed. It kept its 2026 capex forecast at $220 billion, and shares fell over 7% after hours.
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Anthropic is the unnamed Customer B behind 34.5% of SpaceX's third-quarter revenue, Bloomberg reported, overtaking the US government. Anthropic rents computing power from SpaceX's AI unit and could spend up to $120.5 billion through 2029, though it can cancel after early 2027.
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ServiceNow shares sank 27% after third-quarter results lacked the usual upside, reviving fears that AI will upend traditional software. Revenue grew over 20% to $4.11 billion, in line with estimates, while adjusted EPS of $1.00 missed the $1.02 forecast.
Read more at CNBC →Intel shares plunged after hours on a weak fourth-quarter outlook tied to a soft PC market. Third-quarter revenue rose 21% to $16.51 billion and data centre and AI revenue jumped 78% to $7.3 billion, but client computing fell 5%.
Read more at CNBC →Reddit is moving to a primarily logged-in site to keep AI scrapers out and licensing deals in. Global daily users were flat at 130.3 million. US daily users fell from 53.2 million to 50.7 million, which also explains the urgency.
Read more at TechCrunch →OpenAI reorganised its public rulebook around faithfulness to human intent, minimising harm, honesty and transparency, human agency and care. It dropped most style rules, renamed the model GPT instead of the assistant, and admits its models do not yet fully follow it.
Read more at The Next Web →Nvidia rejected a New York Times report that US intelligence agencies watched Alice Huang, linked to Singapore cloud firm Megaspeed, as a possible Chinese asset close to CEO Jensen Huang. Nvidia said Megaspeed is a regional cloud customer and such interactions are normal.
Read more at CNBC →Thrive Holdings, the holding company spun out of Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital with OpenAI as a partner, is acquiring ADT for $10 a share, about $7.6 billion in equity and $15.3 billion in enterprise value. It plans new AI-powered home security products.
Read more at TechCrunch →Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a C$1.6 billion federal investment in Canadian AI company Cohere, framing it as a downpayment on national security. He said Canada will not wait for the future of AI to be decided elsewhere, ahead of a Canada-EU summit.
Read more at Politico Europe →Polymarket resumed trading after a breach at a UK-based third-party vendor drained money from some traders' wallets. Bubblemaps estimated around 700 users lost about $2.7 million. Polymarket says it will refund those affected, and its US platform was not hit.
Read more at Wired →General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims from 36 state attorneys general that its Smart Driver program passed driving data to brokers whose buyers included insurers. GM must limit the data it collects and get express consent.
Read more at The Verge →Gartner says over $3.5 trillion of AI infrastructure spending could face impairments by 2030 at the current pace. Providers would need about $8.5 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2030, and the firm expects a big shortfall and consolidation among neoclouds.
Read more at Network World →OpenAI doubled Work and Codex quotas on its Pro 100 and Pro 500 plans and reversed a planned cut on Pro 200 after user pushback. Plus stays the same. OpenAI adds that double the quota does not mean double the finished tasks.
Read more at The Decoder →Emeryville-based Foundry Robotics raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series A led by Marlinspike Partners, with Khosla Ventures returning. It runs robotic assembly cells under a manufacturing-as-a-service model and has grown to a 130,000 square foot facility serving defence and industrial customers.
Read more at Wowtale →Apple will lower its commission on in-app purchases and paid apps in Taiwan from 30% to 26% starting October 31, after talks with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. Developers do not need to sign new terms to get the lower rate.
Read more at MacRumors →Rivian is licensing parts of its AI voice assistant to Volkswagen Group under their $5.8 billion joint venture, its investor presentation shows. Fees were not disclosed. The assistant could debut in VW's low-cost ID EVERY1.
Read more at TechCrunch →Meeting minutes in a US legal filing show Meta employees discussed how to get the academic community to disavow Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, including a whisper strategy and debunking his work, The Guardian reported.
Read more at The Guardian →Fanfiction archive Archive of Our Own went down for maintenance on Thursday. The nonprofit that runs it said restoration will take around two weeks and could take up to a month, though it hopes to bring a degraded version back sooner.
Read more at 404 Media →Meta will notify supervising parents when teens repeatedly search for self-harm content on Facebook within a short period, and when chats with Meta AI suggest a teen may be at risk. The alerts came to Instagram earlier this year.
Read more at Engadget →Aon CEO Greg Case told CNBC that packing billions of dollars of computing equipment into a few locations creates concentration risk that makes data centres harder to insure. Without insurance, he said, developers may lose access to debt markets.
Read more at CNBC →Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will offer Google's Tensor Processing Units from 2027, the first time the AI chips will be available on a hyperscale cloud outside Google. The deal was announced at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas.
Read more at The Hindu →Microsoft added 24 data centres across five continents in the September quarter, Satya Nadella said. It also cut the time to bring new Nvidia GB300 GPUs online by about 20% in its largest regions, while Copilot throughput rose over 50%.
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A report released Thursday estimates that China's record exports of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and EVs will avert about 450 million metric tons of carbon dioxide this year, AP reports. Demand for renewables has surged because of the energy crisis from the Iran war.
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A Sierra Club analysis says US power sector CO2 could rise 42% above 2025 levels by 2030 as gas plants are built for data centres. That is 618 million extra tons, which would wipe out 15 years of reductions.
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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol is weighing a plan that would let companies choose between current electricity emissions reporting and a stricter hourly, location-matched method for a set period. Businesses say mandatory matching would raise costs and make renewable projects harder to fund.
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Saudi Arabia, Russia, Argentina and Brazil are accused of trying to weaken UN biodiversity science at COP17 in Yerevan. The fight is over whether countries should welcome or merely take note of two IPBES reports. Negotiators warn it could set a harmful precedent.
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Finnish police are investigating suspected environmental law breaches at a planned Google data centre near Muhos. Authorities say a local Google subsidiary cleared forest and drained land before required environmental assessments were finished. The site is part of a $15 billion Google investment in Finland.
Read more at Al Jazeera →Google's environmental report shows its total climate footprint rose 18% in 2025 to about 14.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, as AI infrastructure grows. It came the same week Alphabet reported $127.6 billion in quarterly revenue and negative free cash flow.
Read more at CarbonCredits.com →Toyota and Lexus sold 309,766 battery EVs worldwide in the first nine months of 2026, up 127.4%, helped by updated bZ and RZ models. Weak demand for petrol and hybrid cars in China pushed global sales lower for a third month.
Read more at Electrek →The GCF board approved $140 million for Climate Fund Managers' Climate Investor Three, with $84 million for a South African hydrogen fund and $56 million for SDG Namibia One. CI3 is raising towards a $1.2 billion target.
Read more at ESG News →Ministers from the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation said poor access to finance is stopping cooperatives and local communities from protecting nature. They blamed debt distress, high borrowing costs and complex procedures, and called for funding that reaches people on the ground.
Read more at edie →A year after its launch at COP30, the fund meant to pay countries to keep tropical forests standing has a charter, a board and a World Bank home. More than 65 countries endorsed it but only eight have pledged, totalling $7.8 billion against a $125 billion goal.
Read more at Dialogue Earth →Salesforce will buy 500,000 methane reduction credits from Mitti Labs by 2030, scaling climate-smart rice farming on tens of thousands of smallholder farms in India. Credits are backed by satellite-verified field dry-downs, and Mitti projects 700 billion litres of water saved.
Read more at ESG News →First Solar opened the first phase of its $330 million Gaffney, South Carolina plant, which is set to reach 3.4 GW. It will finish Series 6 Plus thin-film modules there, citing demand for US-made equipment after recent trade policy.
Read more at pv magazine →DuPont's new climate targets, validated by the Science Based Targets initiative, aim for net zero across its value chain by 2050. Interim goals include cutting Scope 1 and 2 emissions 83% and Scope 3 by 63% by 2035.
Read more at ESG Today →A poll commissioned by Mandate Research finds Europeans remain concerned about climate change but are increasingly sceptical that climate policies improve their lives. Voters increasingly want affordable energy prioritised over emissions targets, as cost of living protests spread.
Read more at Euronews →Austin and Allison McChord are investing $410 million to turn a 125-acre former coal and oil power plant site in Norwalk into Manresa Wilds, a public space for recreation and events. Local planners unanimously approved a special zoning district.
Read more at The Times of India →Rivian has begun delivering its delivery van with a bigger 129 kWh LFP pack giving 30% more range, plus a new dual-motor AWD version. It is the first real upgrade for a van stuck at about 160 miles of range for years.
Read more at Electrek →UNEP spoke at the launch of the Model Framework Forest Act at COP17, a template for national forest laws developed with the Asian Development Bank, the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment and IUCN. It aims to help halt and reverse deforestation.
Read more at UNEP →The EBRD and the Green Climate Fund launched a programme to fund climate projects by Uzbek businesses and households. Hamkorbank is the first lender to join, with up to $20 million for adaptation, energy efficiency and irrigation.
Read more at UzDaily →Suriname has pledged to fight illegal mining and keep 90% forest cover, but on the French Guiana border, Indigenous Wayana communities live alongside illegal gold miners who have cleared forest and polluted rivers with mercury for decades, Mongabay reports.
Read more at Mongabay →Ireland's energy regulator published its first national Flexibility Needs Assessment, identifying about 234 MW and 58 GWh of potential flexibility needs on distribution networks in 2028. The figures show needs are highly local, down to individual substations.
Read more at CleanTechnica →University of the Witwatersrand researchers surveyed 139 rural households in Zambia's Central province and found edible insects support food security and nutrition. Insect eating has declined, especially among younger people.
Read more at Mongabay →Researchers in China built heterojunction solar cells using gallium-doped zinc oxide instead of indium-based transparent electrodes, reaching 24.92% efficiency. The aim is to cut costs and reliance on scarce indium.
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The FDA proposed changing four of the 30 required nutrients in infant formula. Iodine would triple from 5 to 15 micrograms with a new upper limit, minimum vitamin D would double, and manganese and vitamin A levels would come down. It is the first phase of a wider review.
Read more at CNN →WHO member states have proposed seven candidates for Director-General: Hanan Mohammed Al-Kuwari, Hanan Balkhy, Hans Henri P. Kluge, María P. Neira, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Li Song and Gevorg Tamamyan. Their CVs are published in all six official languages.
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Remdesivir from stock that expired in May 2023 was given to patients, including Nipah patients, at Kozhikode medical college hospital in 2024 and 2025, Keralam's health minister told the assembly. A medical board will check whether it caused harm.
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Keralam has begun supplying NatSmart, Natco Pharma's generic risdiplam, through the SMA clinic at SAT Hospital since October 19. The medicine that cost around ₹5.5 lakh a bottle is now about ₹11,000, the health minister told the assembly.
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The health scheme for people aged 70 and above has funded 23.46 lakh admissions worth ₹5,668.80 crore in two years. Cataract surgery leads with 4.71 lakh procedures, about 20% of the total, followed by chronic haemodialysis at about 2.90 lakh.
Read more at Asia Insurance Post →A BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine study of 100 adults with raised but not hypertensive blood pressure found that cutting wall squat sessions to once or twice a week preserved some benefits in the short term, though three sessions a week did better.
Read more at USA Today →A Japanese study of 90,944 adults found moderate seafood intake was associated with lower all-cause mortality in women. Omega-3 rich fish in women and unsalted seafood in men were linked to fewer stroke-related deaths. The study shows association, not cause.
Read more at Medical Dialogues →A small Experimental Physiology study of 20 active postmenopausal women, average age 66.6, found three 20-minute high-intensity cycling sessions a week for six weeks improved metabolic flexibility and cycling efficiency. Researchers were from the universities of Valencia and Copenhagen.
Read more at Todo Mountain Bike →ILBS director Dr SK Sarin told the India Today HealthWealth Summit that supplements cannot make up for a poor diet. He pointed to buttermilk, sattu, green vegetables and home-cooked food, adding that protein needs vary by person.
Read more at India Today →Tamil Nadu Health Minister K.G. Arunraj outlined the state's three priority areas at the National Health Assembly in Thailand, centred on universal health coverage. A national survey found about half of outpatient visits in the state are at government facilities.
Read more at The Hindu →More Canadian provinces have stopped changing clocks, while Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces fall back on November 1. Sleep scientists say ending the switch is good for health, but argue permanent standard time is better than permanent daylight time.
Read more at CBC News →Researchers at NTNU in Norway built a silicone patch with no electronics that changes colour as skin moves with each pulse. Read with an ordinary smartphone camera, it measures pulse and blood vessel stiffness. Its grip is inspired by octopus suction cups.
Read more at News-Medical →A UHN-led team in Toronto created a single-cell atlas of healthy pediatric livers and found they work differently from adult livers, especially in immune responses. Comparing sick children's livers to adult ones can miss key disease signals, researchers say.
Read more at Hospital News →Ohio State researchers found that in mice, restoring a gut bacterium depleted after spinal cord injury lowered inflammation. A second study linked 19 microbial species to nitrogen loss after injury, which is tied to muscle wasting in humans. The findings are early.
Read more at Ohio State News →Action on antimicrobial resistance lags far behind the 2024 UN pledges, Health Policy Watch reports. A ministerial meeting in Abuja on December 6 to 8 offers a chance to recommit. WHO data cited in the report puts AMR-linked deaths at about 4.9 million a year.
Read more at Health Policy Watch →The Sax Institute launched 18 and Up, which aims to follow 100,000 Australians aged 18 to 45 over their lives to understand rising health challenges. Its sister study, 45 and Up, has more than 267,000 participants.
Read more at The Guardian →Between 30% and 55% of adults say they have used chatbots for health questions, often outside clinic hours, The Conversation reports. The authors look at what this means for patient care and how people can make the process safer and more useful.
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ISRO is scheduled to launch GSLV-F18 carrying the NVS-03 navigation satellite at 11:51 pm IST on October 30 from the Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota. It is the 20th GSLV flight and will place NVS-03 into a geosynchronous transfer orbit to strengthen NavIC.
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk completed a 7-hour, 11-minute spacewalk, installing the station's seventh roll-out solar array. It was the 100th US spacewalk at the ISS and Kutryk's first. Another is planned for November 5.
Read more at NASA →Engineers swapped three Voyager 1 devices for lower-power alternatives in September, an effort nicknamed the Big Bang, so its instruments can run longer. Then on October 20 the spacecraft lost contact for 48 hours and came back on its own before the team intervened.
Read more at NASA JPL →NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Florida Today that NASA is accelerating Artemis with more than 20 crewed and uncrewed moon-base missions. He expects very big rockets launching nearly all the time from Florida's Space Coast within five years.
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NASA-funded scientists found that Teghaza 001, an 800 gram rose-coloured meteorite found in the Sahara in 2022, formed on Mars more than 4.1 billion years ago. It is one of the oldest Martian meteorites known, according to a paper in Science.
Read more at NASA →Astronomers announced 2026 ED138, a probable dwarf planet about 4.3 billion miles from the Sun spotted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The finding was presented at the American Astronomical Society's planetary sciences meeting in Spokane.
Read more at National Geographic →NASA's twin TRACERS spacecraft, launched last year, have produced first results on how the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic shield through magnetic reconnection. A new paper analyses observations from the mission's first year.
Read more at NASA Science →A study in Science found Manx shearwaters become slightly disoriented on long Atlantic flights because their body clock falls out of sync with the sun's position. The birds are close relatives of albatrosses, an Oxford researcher told NPR.
Read more at NPR →NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 landed in Birmingham, Alabama, after stops in El Paso and Fort Worth on its way from California to Kennedy Space Center. It will appear at the MAX POWER air show there on November 7 and 8.
Read more at AVweb →Two satellites in Russia's Rassvet broadband constellation, meant to rival Starlink, have sunk below 230 km after failing to raise their orbits and are expected to burn up, satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell said. The programme is already behind schedule.
Read more at 19FortyFive →China is adding offshore launch platforms, commercial spaceports and dedicated pads for private rocket makers, Xinhua reports. In September a commercial rocket carrying nine satellites lifted off from a ship in the East China Sea near Shanghai.
Read more at Xinhua →NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman named veteran test pilot Troy Asher director of the Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, where he had been acting director since March. Armstrong will lead NASA's effort to rebuild its X-plane portfolio.
Read more at NASA →A Tyrannosaurus rex trackway, the only one known in the world, was unveiled at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. A Colorado high school science teacher spotted the three massive footprints in the North Dakota Badlands over the summer.
Read more at Local 12 →The Utah Geological Survey opened a new excavation near Arches National Park that may be one of North America's oldest Cretaceous bone concentrations, 138 to 141 million years old. Early finds suggest a previously unknown armoured dinosaur.
Read more at Newsweek →Archaeologists found cosmetics, an incense burner, a bronze lantern, a balsam jar and commercial weights in a sealed closet in a central Pompeii home first excavated in 1912, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said.
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Two years after the Dune: Part Two sandworm bucket went viral, AMC is selling a Sandworm Thumper and a Double Sandworm bucket for Part Three. The Double has two worm-shaped hand holes, so two people can reach for popcorn at once. Progress.
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A broken LED panel on the court delayed Alexander Zverev's match point in Vienna until a supervisor draped a towel over it. He then beat Tallon Griekspoor 6-4, 7-5 to become world No 1, the first German there since Boris Becker in 1991.
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Virgin Galactic's new Apeiron spaceplane will climb to 54.2 miles, just short of the 62-mile Kármán line, and let six passengers float for three to four minutes. Nearly 700 people are already in the queue. Almost space, fully priced.
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Joyalukkas unveiled Mayura Sahasra, 22-karat gold earrings weighing 16.514 kg and measuring 1.215 metres long. Guinness lists them as both the heaviest pair of gold earrings and the largest pair of earrings. Ear support was not discussed.
Read more at RBC-Ukraine →TSA officers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport spotted an object on X-ray with three blades and claw-like features, which one officer compared to Wolverine meets Freddy Krueger. A supervisor with seven years at TSA called it one of the most unusual items she has seen.
Read more at New York Post →A former head boy flipped a 100 kg tractor tyre around his old school in Epsom from midday Sunday to midday Monday, covering 13 km in about 6,859 flips. The Guinness record is 11.21 km. He is raising £20,000 for a sports pavilion.
Read more at InYourArea →A Colorado pilot of 50 years is fighting Jefferson County zoning officials for approval to fly an electric plane from his home to work. Neighbours objected to his earlier aircraft over noise and fuel. The electric plane, he notes, has neither.
Read more at Hindustan Times →A 32-metre Catrina went on display in Mexico City on Thursday, beating Puerto Vallarta's certified height as the capital chases the Guinness title. The capital now waits for Guinness to bring a tape measure.
Read more at Vallarta Daily →Hundreds of people queued for the opening of a new Lego store at Chantry Place in Norwich on Thursday. Doors opened at 09:00 GMT. The first person had been waiting since 04:00 GMT. Until now, the nearest store was in east London.
Read more at BBC News →A British collector whose parents would not buy her a real horse now holds the Guinness record for the largest My Little Pony collection, with 4,550 items. It began with a pink pony named Snowflake, which she still owns.
Read more at The Times of India →Folklore enthusiasts are reviving Caking Night at a Stannington pub for a second year. The old north-west Sheffield custom, held on November 1, had children visiting houses in disguise and asking householders to guess who was underneath.
Read more at The Star (Sheffield) →Conferences and summits coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Dates do move, so click before you book the train.
Science and lab notes that landed recently. Preprints say so on the card. Findings stay where the source put them.
Scientists have uncovered seven surprising stages that space rocks go through as they hurtle toward Earth, revealing that melting and violent fragmentation, rather than simple evaporation, determine their fate. The discovery could help explain why meteorites scatter across the ground and how dangerous asteroids explode in Earth's atmosphere.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered that Jupiter uses a surprisingly complex system of powerful plasma waves and multiple shock regions to defend against the solar wind. The findings reveal major differences between Jupiter and Earth and could help scientists understand the enormous shock waves produced by exploding stars.
A study of nearly 13,000 adults found that people consuming the most artificial sweeteners experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills, equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional years of brain aging. Six popular sweeteners were linked to faster cognitive decline, raising concerns about the long-term brain.
Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026, doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03531-z A data-driven approach could match treatments to individuals with more precision. Plus, funders in Europe are backing preprint-led publishing and whether professors should care about student evaluations.
NASA’s Artemis I mission has revealed that cosmic radiation near the Moon is higher than in Earth orbit, but not by as much as scientists might expect. Tiny experimental detectors also uncovered surprising details about how radiation passes through the human body, offering valuable insights for future lunar.
Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026, doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03298-3 Ribbons that are composed exclusively of five- and seven-carbon rings have metal-like electron transport and conductance. The ribbons can be synthesized by linking previously inaccessible chains of paired five-membered rings, providing a route to making highly conducting carbon nanoribbons.
Researchers have discovered a surprising hidden ability in Europe's familiar black-and-yellow fire salamanders: they glow green and cyan under ultraviolet light. The mysterious fluorescence comes mainly from glands in their skin and their toxic secretions, which can continue glowing for more than 24 hours after being released.
Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026, doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03263-0 Fresh water in deserts often points to sites with signs of early humans and stone tools. But, in Arabia’s Rub’ al Khali region, water alone does not predict occupation.
Talks worth a listen today. Each one was still up on YouTube this morning.
The Sound of Belonging | Jessica Gallagher-Steuver | TEDxClevelandStateUniversity. From TEDx Talks, 12 min.
The Experience Is the Technology | Godha Narayana | TEDxMVJCE. From TEDx Talks, 15 min.
Udržitelnost jako přirozená cesta | Martin Štangl | TEDxOlomouc. From TEDx Talks, 15 min.
The Future of Creativity Is Still Human | Subhabrata Debnath | TEDxMVJCE. From TEDx Talks, 12 min.
The Wave Begins With One | Hazwan Alby Maulidy | TEDxCRIBS Youth. From TEDx Talks, 6 min.