Wednesday's biggest stories.
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Temple row widens: Deepinder Goyal denies paid promotion, Ranveer Allahbadia says he is not an investor in the ₹85,000 wearable
The fight over Goyal's brain-blood-flow wearable has moved from science to influencer disclosures, with liver specialist 'TheLiverDoc' asking who is backing it and why.
Anthropic sets IPO price at $70–78 a share, valuing the Claude maker at up to $1.4 trillion
An updated filing on 10 November puts 825 million shares on offer, with Nasdaq trading under the ticker 'ANT' expected around 19 November.
Kalyan Jewellers' Q2 profit jumps 64% to ₹427 crore as revenue crosses ₹10,000 crore
The jeweller's September quarter beat estimates, though a one-time land sale added about ₹73 crore to the profit.
Ramayana: Part 1 crosses ₹823 crore worldwide in six days and becomes the first Indian film to top the UK box office
Sacnilk puts the India net total at ₹440 crore after a ₹94 crore Tuesday, while the film set overseas records for an Indian release.
Blue Tokai crosses ₹500 crore in revenue, but its loss widens 54% to ₹83 crore
The coffee chain's sales jumped nearly 60% in FY26 as it opened more cafés, but costs grew even faster.
India
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October retail inflation may have crossed RBI's 6% ceiling, economists say; official data due Thursday
Polls point to a reading of about 6%, up from 5.5% in September, as food costs climb. The official number comes out on 12 November.
India's unemployment rate eases to 5.1% in July–September, government survey shows
Joblessness for people aged 15 and over fell from 5.4% in the April–June quarter, helped by a drop in rural unemployment.
Sheikh Hasina's lawyers seek a new Bangladeshi passport; Dhaka says no and repeats its extradition demand
The former PM, who has lived in India since August 2024, has said she wants to return home in December. Bangladesh says she must come back through extradition.
Govt extends ₹2,700 crore PLI scheme for medical devices to 2035–36 and invites new applications
Manufacturers will get three years to set up factories, and the minimum sales level needed to claim incentives has been dropped.
Delhi gets a river cruise on the Yamuna: 40-minute rides between Sonia Vihar and Jagatpur for ₹500
Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched the service on 10 November with Delhi CM Rekha Gupta.
World
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COP31 leaders' summit opens in Antalya today, with about 102 heads of state and government expected
Leaders will set out their national climate plans on 11–12 November. PM Modi is not expected to attend; Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav leads India's team.
Russia and Ukraine agree to a large prisoner swap on day one of US-led Abu Dhabi talks; up to 1,500 each discussed
In their first US-brokered talks since February, the two sides spoke for nearly four hours. Zelenskyy called the session 'constructive'. A second day of talks is under way.
Trump says the Iran war is 'effectively over', but keeps the naval blockade; Brent briefly dips below $90
Iran called the remarks 'fake news' and says it will not talk until its seven conditions are met. Oil fell as traders bet the fighting is winding down.
China's trade surplus passes $1 trillion for the second year running, with two months still to go
October exports jumped 35.2% from a year earlier, driven by demand for AI and data-centre equipment.
Startups & Brands
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SoftBank swings to a $7 billion loss, but Lenskart and Meesho add $394 million in gains as Ola Electric slips
SoftBank's first quarterly loss in about two years came from US data-centre costs, while two of its Indian bets kept climbing.
ShareChat parent crosses ₹1,000 crore in revenue as microdrama app QuickTV takes off
Mohalla Tech's FY26 revenue grew about 40%, and it says it turned EBITDA-positive in the June quarter.
Matrimony.com's Q2 profit rises 2.7 times to ₹20.7 crore; it will also buy more of astrology matchmaker Astro-Vision
The matchmaking company added 3.02 lakh paid subscriptions in the quarter, up about 27% from a year ago.
SEBI clears MakeMyTrip's India IPO; the share sale could raise over $1 billion
The Nasdaq-listed travel company will sell part of its Indian unit to local investors, but the unit gets no new money.
D2C brands bagged one in three startup funding deals in October, led by Boldfit's $42 million
Even as overall startup funding fell to $678 million, consumer brands raised about $200 million ahead of the festive and wedding season.
Tech & AI
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Anthropic takes on Microsoft and Google with Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Meetings
Claude can now build spreadsheets, sketch plans on shared boards and sit in on Google Meet calls, days before Anthropic's IPO.
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon, its 'strongest model', to AI Ultra users and developers at $2 per million tokens
After a limited preview for cyber defenders in October, Carbon is now in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search and the API.
OpenAI launches 'Businesses in ChatGPT': brands can claim verified profiles and run their own agents
Companies get a blue tick, a dashboard showing how often ChatGPT mentions them, and, in the US, a customer-service agent inside ChatGPT.
Google's Pixel Tag, its answer to the AirTag, goes on sale today; India price ₹3,799
The Bluetooth tracker costs $29 in the US, and a four-pack is ₹12,900 in India.
Markets & Money
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Sports
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Rain washes out 3rd ODI in Hamilton: India can't lose the series now; Shreyas Iyer to lead in the last two games
Not a ball was bowled at Seddon Park on 10 November, so India stay 2-0 up and New Zealand's 11-series home winning run is over.
Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Divya Subbaraju win 25m pistol team gold at the shooting World Championship in Doha
The trio scored 1761 to beat South Korea by 13 points, India's second gold of the championship; the men's 50m rifle 3-positions team added bronze.
FIFPRO World 11: Messi returns for a record 18th time, Yamal makes history, Ballon d'Or winner Kane left out
Nearly 20,000 professional footballers voted for the 2026 men's team of the year, announced on 9 November.
Entertainment
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Good News
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33 Sundarbans villagers, including 10 women, train to keep people and tigers safe
The new volunteers join a network of 98 'first responders' in Kultali, South 24 Parganas, who step in when a tiger strays into a village.
India's Dr Reddy's wins first US FDA nod for a $40-a-year generic HIV-prevention shot
The Hyderabad drugmaker's version of lenacapavir, an injection given just twice a year, is meant for 120 low- and middle-income countries.
An Assam father and daughter turn rhino and elephant dung into notebooks
Since 2014, their venture Elrhino has made paper products from wildlife waste, giving villagers near habitats an extra income.
From 27 sewing machines to steady factory jobs: Aarey's Warli women are earning with PF and medical cover
Adivasi women from Mumbai's Aarey forest, whose hamlets shrank after the Metro car-shed project, now draw regular salaries at an Andheri factory.
Mumbai doctors give a 6-kg baby a new liver in a 10-hour surgery, with his mother as donor
The one-year-old had advanced liver disease from a rare genetic disorder; he went home after 15 days.
300+ volunteers on foot and horseback find a 6-year-old boy with autism safe after 2 nights in Kentucky woods
Roman Heilman walked out of the brush with his dog onto a horse trail, about a mile and a half from home.
The world's driest desert bursts into its biggest bloom in 30 years, with 200+ species in flower
Record rains brought by a strong El Niño woke seeds and bulbs that had slept in Chile's Atacama sand for decades.
Newborn deaths in Flint fell by half after families got cash during pregnancy and infancy
A study in JAMA Pediatrics links the Rx Kids programme to a sharp drop in babies dying in their first month.
One of Australia's most mysterious bats turns up 400 miles from where it was last seen
A scientist's handheld detector picked up the call of the rare Arnhem sheath-tailed bat at a Northern Territory sanctuary.
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