Trending Stories on AI, Money, Gadgets, Cricket & More
Trending Stories on AI, Money, Gadgets, Cricket & More
Pakistan's central bank has tightened again. The MPC raised the policy rate by 50 basis points to 12% on Monday, October 26, effective October 27, ending three straight holds. With September inflation at 10.3% — well above the 5–7% target — the committee said the move was needed to anchor expectations and contain second-round effects from the ongoing supply shock.
India today launches everything from one spaceport with two pads. ISRO chairman V. Narayanan says that number doubles by 2029: four functional launch pads, a dedicated 2,000-acre small-satellite complex rising at Kulasekarapattinam, and private companies handling a growing share of commercial work — while ISRO itself, he is clear, will not be privatised.
The legal ceiling for ethanol in a flex-fuel vehicle in India just moved from E85 to E100 — nearly pure ethanol. But this is a rulebook change, not a pump change: it applies only to vehicles built and certified as flex-fuel models, it does not touch your E20 car, and the notification sets no date for when E100 will actually be sold across the country. Here is the verified detail.
The Claude maker has opened its books to the public for the first time. Anthropic's S-1, filed Monday, pairs the fastest revenue growth Wall Street has ever been asked to price — $16.3 billion in six months — with an $80.7 billion headline loss, more than $475 billion in future compute commitments, and a risk section that warns its own models could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." Here is what the filing actually says, and what it does not.
Microsoft is not announcing layoffs. It is doing something subtler: inviting roughly a quarter of its workforce to volunteer to leave, with money and career support attached. The offer reaches India alongside the US, Canada and the UK — but the public announcement is deliberately light on numbers, and some of the most quoted details are reported, not confirmed. Here is what we could verify.
Norway — one of the world's richest countries, whose sovereign wealth fund just posted a record $184.3 billion half-year profit — has joined Haiti, Libya, Somalia and Yemen on the list of countries Donald Trump has described with the same vulgar term. The reason he gave at Port Huron was explicit: the Nobel Peace Prize did not go to him. Norway's answer was a civics lesson: the committee is independent, and he knows it.
India will try to seal the five-match T20I series in Wellington on Tuesday without Ishan Kishan. The BCCI confirmed on Monday that the wicketkeeper-batter is recovering well from a low-grade right adductor strain but is yet to regain match fitness — and bowling coach Morne Morkel called his absence a precaution. Here is the exact wording, the cover in place, and what it means for the decider.
The picture has sharpened in the last 24 hours. Arnab is now a severe cyclonic storm, its landfall point has narrowed to close to Yanam or Kakinada, 30,043 boats are back in Andhra harbours, 53 trains are cancelled, and Odisha has readied more than 1,700 shelters. This post covers only the new developments since our October 26 update, plus the brief context needed to understand them.
The 70th Ballon d'Or came home to London, and so did the winner. Harry Kane ended England's 25-year wait since Michael Owen, Alexia Putellas reclaimed the women's crown for a third time, and Spain quietly collected eight of the night's 13 awards — after a pre-ceremony website blunder briefly crowned three different men.
Fuel prices moved up again on Tuesday, October 27: petrol by Rs1.54 to Rs379.25 per litre and high-speed diesel by Rs2.16 to Rs395.82 per litre, under the Petroleum Division notification. Alongside the hike, the government revived austerity — markets to close by 9pm and fuel allocations for official vehicles cut by 50% for an initial three months.