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A Business Standard poll of 11 economists puts October consumer inflation at roughly 6.05%. Rating agency ICRA expects 6.1%, up from 5.5% in September. If either forecast holds, it would be the first time since October 2024 that inflation has gone above the top of the RBI's 2–6% comfort band.

The National Statistics Office's quarterly labour survey, released on Tuesday, puts the unemployment rate at 5.1% for July–September 2026. That is down from 5.4% in the previous quarter and 5.2% a year earlier. The survey covered more than 5.5 lakh people.

London-based lawyers acting for Sheikh Hasina wrote to Bangladesh's High Commission in New Delhi on 9 November. They asked for a new passport and national ID card, saying her old documents had been cancelled. The mission passed the letter to the foreign ministry in Dhaka. Officials there said it was not clear that Hasina herself had authorised the request.

The Department of Pharmaceuticals said on Tuesday that the production-linked incentive scheme for medical devices will now run until 2035–36. Companies can apply again through an online portal, which is due to open within about 10 days. The scheme's outlay remains ₹2,700 crore.

Delhi now has a leisure boat service on the Yamuna. The 'Namo Yamuna' cruise runs between Sonia Vihar and Jagatpur, upstream of the Wazirabad barrage. Union shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal opened it on Tuesday, with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta present. The Inland Waterways Authority of India is behind the project.

The two-day leaders' segment of the UN climate talks starts today in Antalya, Türkiye, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Leaders from about 102 countries and more than 300 ministers had confirmed they would attend. Leaders who miss these two days can give their speeches on 17–18 November. The conference runs until 20 November.

Ukrainian and Russian delegations met in Abu Dhabi on 10 November, with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in the room. It was their first US-brokered meeting in about nine months. Ukraine's team was led by Rustem Umerov and Russia's by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky.

After meeting Qatar's prime minister at the White House on 9 November, Trump said Iran was "militarily, effectively over". He also said fresh strikes were unlikely, but that US forces were ready to go back in if needed. The US naval blockade of Iranian ports continues, along with a new task force to cut Iran's trade by land and across the Caspian Sea.

Customs data released on 10 November show China sold $1.04 trillion more goods than it bought in the first ten months of 2026. It has never reached that mark this early. The full-year surplus for 2025 was about $1.2 trillion, a record, and economists at ING expect 2026 to top it.

SoftBank Group posted a net loss of about 1.12 trillion yen (roughly $7 billion) for the July–September quarter, against a profit of 2.5 trillion yen a year earlier. A key reason was a loss of about $3.7 billion after it changed plans to buy power equipment for US AI data centres. Revenue still beat estimates, and its stake in OpenAI was valued at $99.6 billion.

Mohalla Tech, which runs ShareChat and Moj, made ₹1,016 crore in operating revenue in FY26, up about 40% from ₹723 crore. Livestreaming brought in about ₹472 crore and subscriptions about ₹293 crore, mostly from QuickTV, its microdrama app. Ad revenue fell 13% to about ₹252 crore after real-money gaming advertisers pulled back.

Matrimony.com, which runs BharatMatrimony, earned a consolidated profit of ₹20.7 crore in the September quarter, up from ₹7.8 crore a year earlier. Operating revenue rose 17.6% to ₹134.8 crore, while costs grew only about 2%.

SEBI has given its final go-ahead for MakeMyTrip (India) Ltd to list. The regulator issued its observations on 6 November, and they appeared on its website on 9 November. The company had filed its papers confidentially in July.

Direct-to-consumer brands closed 36 of the 108 startup funding deals in India in October, about a third, according to Entrackr's data. They raised about $200 million, nearly 30% of the month's $678 million total. In the first half of 2026, D2C made up only about a fifth of deals.

Claude Sheets lets teams create and edit multi-tab spreadsheets with formulas and dropdowns, and Claude keeps a log of every change it makes. Whiteboards is a shared canvas where Claude turns ideas into timelines, which can then become a document or slide deck. Claude Data, earlier called Dashboards, builds reports from company databases and CRMs.

Google AI Ultra subscribers are getting Gemini 4 Carbon in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search and the Antigravity coding tool. Paying developers and businesses can use it through the API in AI Studio. In the Gemini app, Carbon is labelled for 'most complex work', Gemini 4 Argon stays for everyday use, and the older Gemini 3.1 Pro has been dropped.

Through a new Business Hub, companies can claim a profile, get verified with a blue check and keep their prices, stock and details up to date. They also see how often ChatGPT mentions them and how many clicks it sends to their site. OpenAI says it does not share people's chats with businesses.

The Pixel Tag is Google's first Bluetooth item tracker. It uses Ultra-Wideband to point you to a lost item with an arrow and distance, and Google's Find Hub network of Android devices to locate it further away. It has a speaker, an IP67 rating against dust and water, alerts if you leave it behind, and can be shared with up to 10 people.

NSE and BSE were shut on 10 November for Balipratipada. When they last traded, on 9 November, the Sensex closed at 81,106.65 and the Nifty at 25,044.65. That was their best close since late February. GIFT Nifty, which trades in Gujarat during the break, rose 297 points to 25,341 on Tuesday, pointing to a strong start on Wednesday.

US consumer prices rose 0.4% in October, against forecasts of 0.3%. Core prices, which leave out food and energy, rose 0.3%, also above estimates. Food was up 0.5% and energy 0.7%. Housing costs made up more than 30% of the overall increase. There is no official yearly figure, because data for October 2025 was never collected during last year's government shutdown.

Shubman Gill won the toss and chose to bowl, and ground staff began removing covers for a 40-over game, but the rain came back. With the cut-off for a 20-over match approaching, the umpires called it off. With two matches left, New Zealand's best result is now a 2-2 draw.

Esha Singh (590), Manu Bhaker (587) and Divya Thadigol Subbaraju (584) combined for 1761 in the women's 25m pistol team event. South Korea took silver with 1748 and Vietnam bronze with 1745.

David Raya in goal; Pau Cubarsí, Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes in defence; Jude Bellingham, Rodri and Vitinha in midfield; and Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal up front. A total of 19,806 players from 73 countries voted.

Season 3 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power lands on Prime Video on 11 November, jumping several years ahead to the war between the Elves and Sauron; Prime Video has already renewed it for a fourth season. Zee5's crime thriller Blind Game, with Arjun Rampal and Priyamani, also arrives today. Rajinikanth's Jailer 2 streams on Prime Video and Netflix's Christmas Switch drops on 12 November.

Scene opened with ₹19.15 crore net and held steady through the Diwali weekend. On Tuesday, its fifth day, it added about ₹12.85 crore net by 10 pm, according to Sacnilk figures cited by The Week, taking the India net total to about ₹97.4 crore and gross to ₹113 crore. Overseas markets have added ₹61.25 crore. Trackers give slightly different numbers, so final totals may change.

The Wildlife Trust of India and the West Bengal Forest Department run Primary Response Teams in Kultali block, with support from the IUCN. On 24 October, 33 new volunteers, 10 of them women, were trained at an education centre in Ambikanagar. They learned about tiger behaviour, tracking signs, keeping crowds calm and talking with worried residents. They do not try rescues themselves; they alert forest staff and keep people back.

The US Food and Drug Administration has given tentative approval to the first generic version of lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that protects people from HIV. It was made by India's Dr Reddy's Laboratories. 'Tentative' is the FDA's usual label for a generic while the original drug is still under patent, so it cannot be sold in the US. Gilead's brand-name version lists at about $28,218 a year there.

Retired mining engineer Mahesh Chandra Bora read on a flight about paper made from elephant dung in Rajasthan and wondered whether Assam, home of the one-horned rhino, could do the same. After retiring, he tried it at home with a kitchen blender and window screens. His daughter Nisha, who spent 17 years in the corporate world, later joined to turn it into a business, Elrhino Eco Industries.

Warli Adivasi families have lived in Aarey, Mumbai's big green patch, since the 1950s. Locals say about 70 families lost homes to the Metro project, and the number of hamlets fell from 27 to 15. Cassandra Nazareth and her team, working in the area since 2016, began with tote bags and Warli art, then gave the women 27 sewing machines. After the lockdown, garment factories came looking for them.

The one-year-old boy had Alagille syndrome, a rare inherited condition that damaged his liver and also affected his heart and kidneys. Since birth he had suffered constant itching and dark urine, and he struggled to gain weight. Doctors at Narayana Health SRCC Children's Hospital in Mumbai decided a liver transplant was his best chance.

Six-year-old Roman Heilman, who has autism, went missing near Louisa in Lawrence County, Kentucky, on 1 November. More than 300 volunteers joined state police, the National Guard and rescue crews from West Virginia and Ohio, using horses, drones and vehicles in hilly woodland. Searchers even sang 'If You're Happy and You Know It', a song he responds to, hoping to draw him out.

Chile's Atacama Desert is covered in colour, in what scientists call the largest and brightest 'desierto florido' in three decades, and possibly ever. More than 200 species are flowering, some in spots where blooms had never been recorded. Heavy rains in July and August soaked deep into the soil and reached seeds, bulbs and tubers that ordinary showers miss. The show is expected to last until mid-November.

Rx Kids, run in Flint, Michigan, gives families $1,500 during pregnancy and then $500 a month during infancy. It is described as the first community-wide cash 'prescription' programme for mothers and babies in the US. Before it began, Flint's newborn death rate was more than double the rest of the state's.

The Arnhem sheath-tailed bat, a tiny microbat first described in 1979, has been caught on camera only a handful of times. During a nature survey at Pungalina-Seven Emu Wildlife Sanctuary in the Northern Territory, Australian Wildlife Conservancy scientist Oli Aylen was setting up mist nets around mangroves when his bat detector recorded its call overhead.