Tuesday's biggest stories.
India and the world — brands, startups, tech, sports, money and more. Explained simply, in our own words.
Deepinder Goyal hits back at critics of his ₹85,000 Temple wearable: 'We didn't make any medical claim'
The Zomato founder says Temple is a fitness and AI device, not a medical one, and that he expects no more than 1% of its sales to come from India.
Jio launches a ₹10,000 recharge plan that lasts three years, with unlimited 5G and Canva Pro Lite
Pay once and your Jio number is covered for 1,095 days, which works out to about ₹278 a month.
Nvidia stock hits a multi-month low as CEO Jensen Huang admits an affair and the board opens a probe
Shares fell about 4% on Monday to $178.44 after the board began an independent inquiry into whether Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort.
PhysicsWallah's Q2 profit doubles to ₹142 crore; management says AI now writes about 90% of its code
Revenue rose 18% to ₹1,242 crore, even as headcount and employee costs came down.
Airtel reportedly offers a buy-1-get-1 recharge on its ₹349 and ₹399 plans, after Jio's similar deal
An eligible account could get a second recharge of the same value free, stretching 28 days to 56.
India
6 storiesGovernment caps trade margins on 137 anti-cancer drugs; steepest price cut is 96%
The cap of 30% on trade margins took effect on 9 November and is expected to save about ₹3,557 crore a year.
E20 petrol row: Karnataka claims ethanol above the limit; Petroleum Ministry says all 893 samples were within range
Kerala has begun random checks at petrol pumps, and oil companies want joint sampling.
Punjab records 1,152 fresh farm fires on Diwali, its sharpest single-day rise this season
The season's tally reached 4,459, and Sangrur had the most new fires that day.
Mumbai gets its first non-AC local train with automatic doors, now in safety trials
The 12-coach rake from Chennai's ICF has louvred doors and sensors that reopen if someone is blocking them.
Indian Railways earns ₹628 crore from scrap sales in October, beating its ₹600 crore target
The month-long cleanliness drive also freed up about 6.2 lakh square feet of space.
Gold fell 21% globally this year but only 15% in India; rupee and import duty cushioned the drop
From 30 January to 30 October, dollar gold fell 21.4% while rupee gold fell 14.9%, says an Axis Mutual Fund report.
World
3 storiesPM Modi speaks with Zelenskyy, says India is ready to contribute to a peaceful settlement
The call on 9 November came ahead of US-mediated Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi.
After midterm win, US Democrats say they will probe Elon Musk and Stephen Miller from January
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says he is 'a hard yes' on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Global fossil CO₂ emissions projected to fall 0.41% in 2026, but total emissions may still hit a record
The Global Carbon Budget projects fossil emissions of 38.24 billion tonnes, while land-use emissions climb.
Startups & Brands
2 stories
Tech & AI
5 storiesAnthropic reportedly plans to set its IPO valuation range this week, with trading as early as next Thursday
Some investors want a valuation below the $1.5 trillion target discussed last week, per the Wall Street Journal.
Anthropic releases Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: input price cut to $8 per million tokens and about 30% faster
The launch comes with a METR report suggesting Anthropic's own models may be speeding up its AI research.
Apple launches $49.99 'Intelligence Usage Packs', its first paid Apple Intelligence option
For now the packs work only in Logic Pro, with other Creator Studio apps to follow.
Adobe and Disney announce a multi-year AI alliance to build custom Firefly models
Adobe becomes an official AI innovation partner of Disney, which will work on generative models tailored to its own characters and worlds.
World Bank warns governments: digital ID wallets must not become a must-have for essential services
Its new report says elderly, low-income and low-connectivity people risk being locked out.
Markets & Money
2 storiesSports
5 storiesIndia beat New Zealand by 4 runs (DLS) in the second ODI to go 2-0 up in the five-match series
Rain stopped play in Wellington with India on 113 for 7, needing 22 more from 66 balls.
Mohammed Shami retires from Test cricket after a 13-year career
The fast bowler will continue to play limited-overs cricket for India.
Smriti Mandhana named captain in all three formats for India women's South Africa tour
The December tour has one Test, three ODIs and three T20Is.
Teen star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi adds a Tata Sierra to his car collection after IPL 2026 award
The 15-year-old won Super Striker of the Season with a strike rate of 237.50.
Anuj Shrivatri becomes India's 100th chess Grandmaster
The Madhya Pradesh player won the ASEAN Plus Individual Open in the Philippines to earn the title.
Entertainment
2 storiesGood News
7 storiesBengaluru's HRS Navigation built an affordable surgical 'GPS' now used in 200+ hospitals
Its easyNav system helps surgeons plan and track procedures, and it avoids recurring per-surgery consumable costs.
FarmerChat, a free AI assistant for farmers, has served over a million users across India
A Varanasi nursery owner used it to control disease in 4 acres of mango saplings and estimates he saved about ₹10,000.
A New Jersey teen taught himself machine learning and built Kora, a free app that helps families read autistic children's cues
It has more than 700 users in 12 countries, mostly through autism therapy centres.
Fish stocks thrive in Scotland's Summer Isles after a 10-year scallop-dredging ban protected rare maerl beds
The protected area of about 150,000 acres holds all of the region's maerl, a seaweed that fish breed among.
Glowworms are set to return to a North Yorkshire reserve after about 100 years, thanks to a volunteer's garden shed
Around 1,900 larvae reared by Peter Cooper are due for release at Nosterfield Nature Reserve this year.
New Jersey students fill a football field with more than 250,000 pounds of food for families in need
It was the largest food drive in the history of the nonprofit Dermer Dreams.
The globe skimmer dragonfly, under 1 gram, may fly up to 1,000 km across the Indian Ocean every year
Scientists think it rides monsoon winds from southern India to the Maldives, though the full route is still a hypothesis.
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