Deepinder Goyal hits back at critics of his ₹85,000 Temple wearable: 'We didn't make any medical claim'

The government has capped trade margins at 30% on 137 non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines, effective 9 November. The aim is to curb excessive mark-ups by manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies.

Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said petrol samples from 67 locations were tested. The state says samples from seven districts showed ethanol above the 20% E20 limit, up to 31.2% in an Indian Oil sample and 30.5% in a Hindustan Petroleum sample. It also reports thousands of complaints about reduced mileage and engines stalling.

Punjab recorded 1,152 farm fires on 8 November, taking the season's count to 4,459 from 3,307 a day earlier. Sangrur had the most new fires that day (194), followed by Ferozepur (157) and Bathinda (132). Tarn Taran has the highest cumulative count at 654.

Mumbai has received its first non-AC suburban local with automatic sliding doors, built at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. The louvred door panels let air in while the doors stay shut, roof ventilators add airflow, and sensors reopen the doors if a person or object blocks them. Other upgrades include more legroom, CCTV, fire detection and emergency communication.

During Special Campaign 6, from 2 to 31 October, Indian Railways earned ₹628.49 crore from scrap, above its ₹600 crore target. It freed about 6.2 lakh sq ft (roughly 14.24 acres) of space and carried out over a lakh cleanliness drives at stations, offices and workshops.

Between 30 January and 30 October 2026, global gold fell 21.4% in dollar terms and Indian gold fell 14.9% in rupee terms, according to an Axis Mutual Fund report cited by Business Today. Two things explain the gap: the rupee slid from about ₹89 to ₹96 per dollar this year, and import duty rose from 6% to 15% in March.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 9 November. Zelenskyy briefed him on recent developments in the war. Modi said the conflict should be resolved through 'dialogue and diplomacy' and that India is ready to contribute to efforts for a peaceful settlement. The two also discussed strengthening bilateral cooperation.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said several committees want to question Elon Musk over DOGE's firing of federal workers last year, and also examine White House chief of staff Stephen Miller over the immigration crackdown. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, set to lead the Senate Banking Committee, warned that companies could face investigations.

According to the Global Carbon Budget 2026 dataset, global fossil CO₂ emissions are projected to fall about 0.41% in 2026, from 38.40 billion tonnes to 38.24 billion tonnes. Oil is down 1.89% (12.59 billion tonnes) and gas down 0.34% (about 8.06 billion tonnes), while coal rises 0.57% to 15.81 billion tonnes and remains the largest source.

Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup founded by IIT Madras alumni Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, is offering $1 million to anyone who solves five long-standing problems. The biggest prize, $400,000, is for cuprate superconductivity. Two problems carry $200,000 each and two carry $100,000 each. The others cover semiconductor interfaces, faster quantum-chemistry calculations, how light changes materials and heat transfer across solid interfaces.

Apple Pay launched in India in September with Axis Bank as its first banking partner. According to a Business Standard report cited by Business Today, HSBC India is in talks to join by the end of FY27. HSBC had 1.02 million credit cards in circulation as of September 2026, per RBI data.

TechCrunch, citing the Wall Street Journal, says Anthropic plans to set its valuation range this week and begin trading on the Thursday or Friday of next week. Anthropic has not confirmed these details in the report.

Anthropic launched Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 on Monday, saying they improve on coding, reasoning and vision and explain things more clearly. Fable's input price drops from $10 to $8 per million tokens, which TechCrunch says makes it cheaper than rival GPT-6 Astra. Fable 5.2 responds about 30% faster, and faster inference is available at double the price. It also works with zero data retention policies for enterprises.

Apple is selling a one-time Intelligence Usage Pack for $49.99, found in Logic Pro under Intelligence Features. Extra usage is consumed only after you hit your monthly limit. Unused credit rolls over month to month, but purchased usage expires 12 months after purchase.

Announced at Adobe MAX in Miami Beach on 9 November, the multi-year alliance makes Adobe an Official AI Innovation Partner of The Walt Disney Company. Financial terms and the exact length were not disclosed.

A World Bank report on national-scale digital wallets says they 'must not become a prerequisite for accessing essential services'. These wallets store and share verified credentials such as IDs, driving licences, certificates and medical records, and are different from payment apps.

The Sensex closed at 81,106, up 107 points, and the Nifty 50 at 25,044, up 58 points, on 9 November, according to Business Today.

In a note dated 6 November, HSBC raised India to 'Overweight' from 'Neutral' and cut mainland China to 'Neutral'. It cited resilient earnings, more reasonable valuations and India's diversification value in an Asian market dominated by AI stocks. It likes banks, industrials, consumer discretionary, insurers and hospitals, and names high oil prices and El Niño as risks.

India won the second ODI in Wellington on 7 November by four runs under the DLS method after rain stopped play. When play was called off, India were 113 for 7 in 26 overs and needed 22 more runs from 66 balls. The win gives India a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. The listing headline from All India Radio says New Zealand were bowled out for 134.

Mohammed Shami announced his retirement from Test cricket on 7 November in a social media post, ending a 13-year Test career. He will continue to play limited-overs cricket for India.

The BCCI Women's Selection Committee announced India's squads on 9 November for the December tour of South Africa. Smriti Mandhana will captain the side in all three formats. The tour comprises one Test, three ODIs and three T20Is.

Rajasthan Royals batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 15, received a new Tata Sierra SUV for winning the Super Striker of the Season award in IPL 2026. He scored 776 runs in 16 innings at an average of 48.50 and a strike rate of 237.50, with 72 sixes.

International Master Anuj Shrivatri of Madhya Pradesh won the 7th ASEAN Plus Individual Open Chess Championship in the Philippines, which made him India's 100th Grandmaster and the first from Madhya Pradesh. He scored seven points from his final eight games.

Rajinikanth's Jailer 2 has become the highest-grossing Tamil film in Tamil Nadu with ₹217.75 crore gross on Day 26, overtaking The GOAT's ₹217.25 crore. Leo is third at ₹215.31 crore. It is also the top Tamil grosser in Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh/Telangana.

Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav of the Delhi High Court granted a permanent injunction on 5 November barring unauthorised commercial use of Amitabh Bachchan's name, image, voice and other aspects of his identity. It extends to unidentified 'John Doe' infringers.

HRS Navigation, a Bengaluru health-tech firm founded in 2015 by Arpit and Shweta Paliwal, makes easyNav, an image-guided surgical navigation system. It uses CT scans to map a patient's anatomy and tracks instruments in real time. According to the company, it is installed in more than 200 hospitals and has supported over 20,000 surgeries.

FarmerChat launched in October 2024 as a free agricultural assistant from the non-profit Digital Green India. It is available on Android in English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Telugu, and farmers can type questions, send voice messages or upload crop photos. Answers take location, crop, growth stage and local weather into account, and are validated by agronomists.

Shashank Madala was 15 when he began Kora, after seeing adults repeatedly misread his autistic cousin's distress at family gatherings. The free app offers several possible readings of a child's feelings, suggests responses and flags when it is unsure. It gives no scores, diagnoses or judgments.

Off Scotland's northwest coast, a protected area of about 150,000 acres around the Summer Isles has banned scallop dredging for 10 years. It holds all of the region's maerl beds, a magenta seaweed that forms chalky nodules. Scallop diver Alasdair Hughson says the recovery has happened 'night to day'.

Local wildlife enthusiast Peter Cooper breeds glowworms in his garden shed in his spare time, at no cost. About 1,900 larvae were counted and are due to be released at Nosterfield Nature Reserve in North Yorkshire, a roughly 600-acre wetland on old limestone quarries, where glowworms had not been seen in about 100 years.

Hundreds of students collected more than 250,000 pounds of food at the second annual 100-Yard Food Drive Challenge, held on Howell High School's football field, which was filled with thousands of donation bags. It was organised by the nonprofit Dermer Dreams and was its largest food drive ever.

The globe skimmer (Pantala flavescens) is about 5 cm long and weighs roughly 300 milligrams. Large numbers arrive in the Maldives every October even though the islands have very little fresh water. A 2009 study suggested they travel about 500 to 1,000 km from southern India, perhaps flying more than 1,000 metres above the ground.