Zomato's 'Limitless Delivery' lets you order from restaurants up to 40 km away in 7 cities

The Union Cabinet cleared a ₹2,814 crore capex support scheme on 4 November to promote domestic processing of lithium and nickel, running through 2030-31. It gives a 30% capital subsidy for four plants, with support capped at ₹500 crore per lithium project and ₹900 crore per nickel project.

The ITR deadline for specified audit-category taxpayers for assessment year 2026-27 was extended from 31 October to 21 November 2026. It does not apply to everyone.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard said on 4 November that four tankers were destroyed by mines and were burning, and on 6 November that two more tankers hit mines in or near the Strait of Hormuz. It has declared the strait 'unsafe and closed' to ships that do not coordinate with Tehran. Maritime officials have not confirmed these incidents.

US envoy Steve Witkoff said the US will mediate working-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on 10 and 11 November. Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to lead for the US, and the agenda covers security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe's post-war security structure and reconstruction economics.

COP31 opens on Monday, 9 November, in Antalya and runs to 20 November, with representatives from nearly 200 countries. The World Leaders' Summit is on 11 and 12 November. The theme is 'COP of the Future – COP of Implementation', and Australia's Chris Bowen is President of Negotiations.

Networks called both chambers for Democrats on election night, 3 November. AP tallies cited by Yahoo News put them at about 254 House seats to 162 for Republicans, with 19 House races uncalled, and 54 Senate seats to 44, with Alaska and Mississippi too close to call at that point. Seat totals differ by outlet and date. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is in line to become Speaker.

According to NSE data for October, Angel One ended the month with about 69.98 lakh active clients, up from 67.56 lakh in September. Zerodha slipped by 32,435 to about 67.59 lakh, reversing its narrow lead of roughly 36,000 clients and dropping to third.

MakeMyTrip has acquired a majority stake in Bengaluru-based Quick Ride, taking it into ride pooling and shared commuting. The price and the exact stake were not disclosed.

EloElo Group raised $80 million in a Series C round co-led by Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, bringing total capital raised to $130 million. MIT Investment Co. joined, as did existing investors Play Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Waterbridge Ventures and Griffin Gaming Partners.

GIVA, the Bengaluru fine-jewellery brand, has raised over $100 million, reported as about ₹975 crore, in a round led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management. Existing investors Epiq Capital and Edelweiss Discovery Fund also took part, and Multiples gets a board seat. A valuation was not disclosed.

Shiprocket reported a consolidated net profit of about ₹59 lakh for July–September 2026, compared with a loss of ₹20.3 crore in the same quarter last year. In Q1 it had made a loss of ₹13.71 crore.

On 3 November the IndiaAI Mission released three indigenous foundation models. EKA-1 from Soket Labs is described as an open, sparse hybrid model with 26.3 billion parameters, trained on about 7.5 trillion tokens, and it supports all 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English. It is aimed at maths, coding, reasoning and multi-step agent tasks, with banking, financial services and cybersecurity as focus areas.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported in his Power On newsletter on 8 November that Apple CEO John Ternus has pressed software engineering chief Craig Federighi to move faster on AI and to go beyond basic Siri improvements. Federighi has been viewed as cautious on AI over privacy, security and jobs. Siri engineering VP Mike Rockwell is reportedly considering leaving his role or Apple next year, and two AI executives, Amar Subramanya and Sebastien Marineau, could take on more Siri AI work.

In the Sunday, 8 November Muhurat session, the Sensex closed at 80,999.40, down 28.62 points (0.04%), and the Nifty at 24,986.40, down 43.95 points (0.18%), just under 25,000. Both opened higher and slipped negative. The Nifty Smallcap 250 gained 1.20%.

On 6 November Bosch Ltd's board approved a sub-division of equity shares from a face value of ₹10 to five shares of ₹2 each (1:5), followed by a bonus issue of three shares for every one held after the split. Together, one existing share becomes 20. Both are subject to shareholder approval by postal ballot, and the authorised share capital is also being raised from ₹38.05 crore to ₹150 crore.

Lando Norris won the Brazilian Grand Prix at a rain-hit Interlagos after Kimi Antonelli spun out of the lead at Turn 1 on lap 20. Max Verstappen, who said he 'did 85%' of the race with a damaged car, was second and Isack Hadjar third. Russell, Antonelli, Piastri, Lawson, Leclerc, Hamilton and Hülkenberg completed the top 10. Leclerc was handed a five-second penalty for a collision with Lawson.

Manchester United drew 4-4 with Aston Villa at Old Trafford after trailing 0-2 and 2-4. Villa's early goals gave United their fastest-ever Premier League 2-0 deficit. Bruno Fernandes, Youri Tielemans, Joshua Zirkzee and Patrick Dorgu scored for United, with Zirkzee and Dorgu both scoring in stoppage time. Alysson, Nicolas Jackson, John McGinn (penalty) and Leon Goretzka scored for Villa. Sky Sports puts Dorgu's equaliser in the 96th minute.

The WTA 250 Chennai Open singles final between Janice Tjen and Magda Linette could not be played on Sunday because of rain and poor air quality. It was moved to 11 a.m. on Monday, 9 November, according to Indian Opinion's daily digest.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is bracing for a 'significant' financial loss in 2027, reported as up to £50 million (about ₹627 crore) in a Guardian-based report. It made a profit of £12.6 million in 2025. Some ECB sources reportedly believe the final figure could be nearer £35 million.

Sacnilk estimated Day 1 at ₹64.85 crore net in India and about ₹127.5 crore worldwide. After four days, cumulative India net is reported between about ₹220 crore and ₹239 crore, depending on the outlet, and DNA reports ₹500.20 crore worldwide for the opening weekend.

According to OTT listings, ZEE5's Blind Game arrived on 4 November, Netflix's family drama Dilwali Diwali on 5 November, and on 6 November SonyLIV's Haiwaan (an Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan thriller) and JioHotstar's I'm Game, a Dulquer Salmaan action thriller. Last Man in Tower also reached ZEE5 on 6 November.

Manisha Bhanwala won gold in the 59 kg freestyle category at the World Wrestling Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 30 October. She was 6-0 down against reigning Pan American champion Abigail Nette of the USA before winning 8-6. Reports describe her as the first Indian woman to win a world title, and only the second Indian after Sushil Kumar to win a senior world title.

The WHO, working with PAHO, announced on 30 October that Barbados has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV as a public health problem. An independent assessment found that infants born in 2022 to 2024 had no new infections from mother-to-child transmission. Positive News adds that 98% of pregnant women were tested for HIV and 98% of those with the virus received antiretroviral treatment.

Adeetya Uppal, a fourth-year aerospace dual-degree student at IIT Kharagpur from Navi Mumbai, was named winner of the 2026 Viasat: Space for Good India Challenge. His AI concept detects threatening space debris and plans satellite avoidance manoeuvres in seconds. The first prize is ₹5 lakh to develop the idea further.

Kim Reynolds, 41, from Somerset in England, noticed her Doberman Saraya staying by her six-month-old son Alexander and crying whenever he was taken away. When he later became upset and looked unwell, she took him to hospital, where doctors recorded a heart rate of 280 beats per minute.

Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, led by Dr Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, trained volunteer owners and their dogs from 2021 to 2023 to find invasive plants: Himalayan balsam, common ragweed and knotweeds such as Japanese knotweed. In the field test, the teams located them with an average success rate of 75%, and 11 of the 12 teams that completed it passed.

A UN Environment Programme report estimates that 252 million hectares of land, marine and freshwater habitat in 149 countries are under active restoration, supporting over a million green jobs. The Green Climate Fund reported a record year, allocating $3.3 billion to climate projects in developing countries.

Surveyors have found larvae of the short-necked oil beetle at Castlemartin Range in Pembrokeshire, Wales, after spotting adults there in 2025. The species had not been recorded in Wales for about 60 years, and habitat loss had pushed it to near extinction in the 20th century.