Angel One overtakes Zerodha to become India's No. 2 broker

At a Panchayati Raj ministry workshop, Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh said that for paying beneficiaries, "biometrics and their voter ID (EPIC) number will be used as the basis", indicating Aadhaar may no longer be the key. The Indian Express first reported the remarks.

Bank of India is waiving 100% of processing charges on home loans and new car loans until 31 March 2027. Individuals need a CIBIL score of 725 or above. It covers regular home loans, top-ups and loans moved over from other banks, subject to the bank's rules.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a ₹2,814 crore scheme, running from FY27 to FY31, to support two lithium and two nickel processing plants. Companies get a 30% capital subsidy, capped at ₹500 crore per lithium plant and ₹900 crore per nickel plant.

After meeting all parties, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said 67 of the Knesset's 120 members recommended Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, as prime minister, while 46 recommended Benjamin Netanyahu. United Torah Judaism's 7 members backed no one.

US employers added 165,000 jobs in October, more than double the roughly 65,000–70,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% from 4.2%.

Turkey's parliament approved the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan by 279 votes to 119. The three countries signed it in Mecca in August.

Paraguay's central bank said digital lender Ueno had fallen below the legal solvency level, leaving many of its roughly 3 million customers, in a country of 6.5 million, cut off from their accounts, including pensions. Ueno also handled close to $850 million in public funds.

Dream11 co-founder and CEO Harsh Jain posted on X that a "brand new Dream11" will launch at the end of December, built "by sports fans, for sports fans". He didn't share features, pricing or an exact date.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched three premises in Bengaluru on 4 and 5 November linked to Neblio Technologies, which runs CoinDCX, and Excelium Technologies, which runs Delta Exchange India. The probe is under India's foreign exchange law, FEMA.

Burger King India is the official restaurant partner for Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday in India. Its new menu is led by the Doomsday Whopper, with black buns coloured using plant-based colours, in veg and chicken versions.

MakeMyTrip has bought a majority stake in Quick Ride, a Bengaluru app that matches people travelling the same way so they can share car and bike rides. The price wasn't disclosed. Founder KNM Rao and team will keep running it.

GIVA, the jewellery brand started in 2019 by Ishendra Agarwal and Nikita Prasad, has raised over $100 million in a round led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management. Existing investors Epiq Capital and Edelweiss Discovery Fund also joined.

The Tata Punch EV was India's top-selling electric car in October with 4,801 registrations, just ahead of the Mahindra XEV 9S at 4,756, according to ElecTree data. The Tata Nexon EV (3,562) and MG Windsor EV (3,127) followed.

EloElo Group, which runs microdrama app Story TV, raised $80 million in a Series C led by Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, at a $500 million valuation. It has now raised $130 million in total. Founder Saurabh Pandey is a former Flipkart executive.

MobiKwik Financial Services, a subsidiary of the listed payments company, has received an NBFC (non-banking finance company) registration from the RBI. MobiKwik plans to start lending within three to six months and aims to disburse ₹5,000 crore over the next three to four years.

Anthropic has launched Personal Finance in Claude, a beta for US users on its Pro, Max and Ultra plans. People can link bank and credit-card accounts through Plaid, then ask questions about their money.

Aina, a Bengaluru startup founded in May 2025 by former Ultrahuman hardware VP Apoorv Shankar, has revealed an AI ring with a tiny screen, a joystick-style control and a microphone. Pre-orders opened on 5 November at $399, with shipping planned from January 2027.

The US Department of Justice has created the Super Intelligence Task Force (DOJ-SITF) to coordinate criminal and civil cases against people who misuse advanced AI, including foreign governments, criminal organisations and fraudsters. It brings together the FBI and the department's antitrust, criminal, civil and national security teams.

The Sensex closed at 81,028 on Friday, up 1,718 points (2.17%), and the Nifty ended at 25,030, up about 494 points (2.01%), reclaiming the 25,000 mark. It was a seventh straight day of gains.

Shares of the National Stock Exchange of India rose up to 3.15% on Friday to a record ₹1,953.95, the fourth straight day of gains. That puts its market value at about ₹4.83 lakh crore, or more than $50 billion.

India's men's hockey team beat Japan 4-1 in the Asian Champions Trophy final in Mohali on Thursday. Japan scored in the 3rd minute and held on until the 42nd, when Shilanand Lakra equalised. Dilpreet Singh, Jugraj Singh (penalty corner) and Sukhjeet Singh then made it 4-1.

India began their SAFF Championship title defence with a 3-2 win over Pakistan at Dhaka's National Stadium on Thursday. Suhail Ahmad Bhat scored in the 13th and 19th minutes and Manglenthang Kipgen added a third in the 31st.

Tanvi Patri, 15, won silver in women's singles badminton at the Youth Olympics in Dakar, Senegal, losing a thriller to China's Zhang Yi Xin, the reigning world junior champion, 21-15, 13-21, 24-26 over 82 minutes.

India won the first ODI in Auckland by five wickets on DLS. Arshdeep Singh took 4 wickets as New Zealand were bowled out for 185, and Virat Kohli's 74 off 51 balls chased down the revised target of 143 in 22.4 overs.

Haiwaan (SonyLIV): Priyadarshan's thriller with Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan, about a visually impaired lift operator suspected of murder.

Bird flu wiped out the sandwich tern colony at Pagham Harbour on England's south coast in 2022. This year, 756 birds are back, and little terns, ringed plovers and oystercatchers have also increased.

In Perambur in Mayiladuthurai district, villagers have skipped firecrackers at Diwali for more than a century because hundreds of fruit bats roost in a banyan tree they call Vavvaal Thoppu. Similar traditions exist in Kazhuperumpakkam near Vanur, Thoppupatti and Saampatti in Tiruchirappalli district, and Kalapattu near Katpadi.

Camera traps set up by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) photographed a Chinese pangolin in the Riat Laban and Laitkor reserve forests on Shillong's urban fringe. It is the first record of the species in WII's Meghalaya study area.

Brazil has expanded Pantanal Matogrossense National Park from 523 to about 708 square miles, adding wildlife corridors identified by the government's conservation agency ICMBio.

The World Health Organization has certified that Barbados has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV as a public health problem. No new infections in babies through this route were recorded from 2022 to 2024.

Wadji, a village of about 2,000 people in Washim district in Vidarbha, has installed 'Meghdoot', an atmospheric water generator developed by CSIR-IICT Hyderabad with Maithri Aquatech. It can produce about 500 litres of purified drinking water a day.

A new UN Environment Programme report says wildlife habitats are being restored faster than ever before. Some 252 million hectares of land, sea and freshwater habitat in 149 countries are under active restoration, supporting more than a million green jobs.

Suhani Gupta, a Class 12 student from Gurugram, built SkyQi, a free website that estimates how dark the night sky is from a single smartphone photo. It counts visible stars, compares horizon and overhead brightness, and corrects for camera settings.