Coca-Cola's Indian bottling parent files IPO papers; Thums Up and Maaza maker's revenue up 20%

Delhi's average air quality index was 369 on Saturday, in the 'very poor' band, with 16 of 59 stations in 'severe'. The worst reading was around 452 near IIT Delhi. One outlet reported a different figure of 391 earlier in the week, so numbers vary by source.

The Union Cabinet cleared a two-year extension, called a 'Second Tour of Duty', for Agniveers, and Rajnath Singh announced it on 4 November. It is meant for the roughly 75% who would otherwise have left after four years.

The 19 kg commercial LPG cylinder rose ₹10 in Delhi to ₹2,820, from ₹2,810 the month before. Jet fuel (ATF) rose ₹1.30 per litre.

US Central Command created Task Force Iron Gate on 7 November, a roughly 20-person unit in Tampa that will target overland and Caspian trade routes not covered by the maritime blockade. Admiral Brad Cooper made the decision.

PRISM, the parent of OYO, reported a consolidated profit after tax of ₹353 crore for April–June 2026 (Q1 FY27), up 17% from ₹301 crore a year earlier. Revenue grew 35% to ₹2,814 crore, EBITDA rose 24% to ₹760 crore and gross booking value climbed about 30% to nearly ₹9,600 crore.

Nykaa's profit after tax rose 207% year on year to about ₹101 crore on revenue of roughly ₹3,006 crore, up 28%, with fashion turning profitable.

Peppermint Robotics has raised about ₹100 crore (around $10.5 million) in a pre-Series B round led by pi Ventures and Crane Venture Partners, with Asiana Fund also taking part. The round mixes fresh capital with secondary share sales.

Google DeepMind announced on 6 November that human-guided AI agents helped find two weaknesses in legacy 1024-bit RSA. The first targets signatures made over short fingerprints and is estimated to be about 1,600 times more efficient at forgery. The second lowers the marginal cost of each extra key in a large batch factoring attack by about 30 times.

Starlink is licensed to operate in India, but there is still no confirmed launch date or official Indian price. As of 6 November it was not available for consumer orders.

Axon is investing $1.2 billion in Skydio at a $5.2 billion pre-money valuation, lifting its stake from about 15% to roughly 37%. Only about $255 million is new money for Skydio, with the remainder buying existing shares.

On Friday 6 November the S&P 500 rose 0.3% to 7,376.86, the Nasdaq gained 1.1% to 24,579.42 and the Russell 2000 added 0.9% to 2,754.11. The Dow slipped 0.5% to 51,285.73.

Reliance Industries shares surged more than 8% on 2 November, lifting its market capitalisation above ₹17 lakh crore, after the company reported record revenue, EBITDA and net profit for the July–September quarter of FY27.

Inc42 says 54 of the 69 listed new-age tech companies it tracks gained for the week, by between 0.4% and 23.3%. CarTrade topped the list, bouncing 23.3% to ₹2,699.30 after a steep fall the week before.

India won the second ODI in Wellington by 4 runs on the DLS method after rain stopped play just as New Zealand were mounting a late chase. The hosts were restricted to about 134 in 41 overs, with sources giving 134 or 135, which one report called their lowest ODI total against India at home.

Dhinidhi Desinghu won bronze in the women's 200m freestyle at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, making her the first Indian to win two medals at the Games. Tirthank Pegu added bronze in the men's 200m butterfly.

Chennaiyin beat East Bengal 5-3 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Saturday for their first win of ISL 2026-27. Brison Fernandes scored twice inside 18 minutes, Ramon Tanque converted a first-half penalty and Irfan Yadwad scored twice after the break.

Noah Okafor came off the bench to score a late winner as Leeds United beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0, ending Spurs' winning run.

Sacnilk's tracking puts Scene at about ₹81.50 crore worldwide gross after two days. In India it made ₹20.25 crore net on Saturday, up 5.7% from Friday, taking its two-day India net to ₹39.40 crore.

Studio-trade estimates have Godzilla Minus Zero taking about $32 million in its US opening weekend, which would be the biggest for a live-action foreign-language film. The previous best was $17.8 million for 2002's Hero. It would also be distributor GKids' biggest opening ever.

The Bangka slow loris, a venomous primate listed as 'possibly extinct' in 2015 and last documented by Western science in the 1930s, is still living on Bangka Island in Indonesia. A new paper by Austrian and international researchers confirmed it.

The Wildlife Trusts has bought Rothbury Estate in Northumberland, England, around 9,400 acres including a Bronze Age hill fort, for about £30 million. More than 25,000 supporters from 50 countries chipped in, alongside funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, DEFRA and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Ketan Sodha, 57, a BCom graduate from Mumbai, started growing strawberries in 2016 with 5,000 plants and called his first year 'a disaster'. He expanded to 10,000 plants in 2017 and by 2020–21 farmed almost 40 acres across three sites.

When a roughly 100-year-old peepal in Ahmedabad was cut down, Bharat Sisodia used a 50-tonne crane to lift and replant it nearly two kilometres away. It has since reportedly begun showing new growth, though no survival rate has been given.

Bargad runs a six-month theatre fellowship in Delhi, with classes from 4 pm to 8:30 pm six days a week and visiting faculty from Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai. The first cohort had 14 fellows, and the stipend was ₹10,000 a month for the first two cohorts and rises to ₹15,000 for the third, starting January 2027.

Karl Bushby, 57, a former British paratrooper from Hull, set out in 1998 to walk around the world and return home entirely on foot. He arrived on 2 November 2026 after roughly 31,000 miles through 30 countries, and embraced his mother, Angela, saying '28 years! I could not have imagined this.'