On Oct. 29, Binance revealed a large security breach and blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis estimated losses at around $5.912 billion. The crypto exchange froze more than $3 billion in assets, temporarily stopped deposits and withdrawals and said it was cooperating with law enforcement.
DoorDash has reached a $17 bn agreement to acquire Instacart’s parent company, Maplebear Inc., for $65 a share in a deal that would help bolster its grocery delivery operation. The transaction was announced on Oct 29.
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Walmart has initiated a probe into alleged kickbacks of over INR 150 crore by employees at Flipkart, according to whistleblower reports. Vendors were allegedly bribing employees in the smartphone and luggage divisions with favours in exchange for favourable marketplace treatment.
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Indian military startup IG military has inked an MoU with Oman-based MSA Global to investigate co-development and localisation of advanced defence systems for Oman and the wider GCC region. The planned alliance will look at three indigenous platforms including KAL, BAJ and JWALA.
Alphabet saw its market worth fall by more than $500 bn as its shares slumped 13% on the back of poor 3rd-quarter earnings. Google Search & advertising revenue that fell short of expectations, sparking fears of rising AI competition from ChatGPT, Claude & other platforms.
Ace Blend raised $9.91 million and seven more startups closed rounds, as Shadowfax and Pine Labs posted strong Q2 profits and the Cabinet cleared an INR 10,000 crore container scheme.
Freshworks has bought Israel-based AI firm Robusta Dev, adding AI-powered incident investigation capabilities to its Freshservice IT service management platform. The technology employs AI agents to examine monitoring data to detect outage core causes.
Rahul Sharma co-founded Micromax, once a leading Indian smartphone brand. In 2026, his business focus includes electronics manufacturing through Bhagwati Products and memory technology through MiPhi Semiconductors.
Innodata, AI services provider headquartered in the US, is said to have chopped approximately 550 jobs in India and the Philippines, the layoffs occurred on October 26. Affected personnel said they were abruptly locked out of business computers and then sent surprise emails of termination.
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Carlsberg India has submitted a revised draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) to the capital markets regulator SEBI for its proposed IPO, which will include an offer of sale of up to 8.64 crore shares by promoter South Asian Breweries. The public offering does not involve any new issuing of shares.
The Union Cabinet approved the Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme (CMPS) with a financial outlay of INR 10,000 cr to boost the container manufacturing industry in India up to FY 2039-40. The plan intends to increase the domestic production capacity to 7.5 lakh TEUs per annum.
On October 28, Amazon cut 250 jobs, most of them in software development positions within its devices division, which makes Kindle e-readers and Echo smart speakers. Affected personnel were notified by text message and early morning email.
PhysicsWallah School of Startups (PW SoS) joins hands with DPIIT & Startup India to bolster India’s startup environment, especially in Tier 2 and 3 cities & rural areas. The 2-year partnership will provide entrepreneurs with incubation, seed cash, access to investors etc.
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Simplismart raised $14 million and three more startups closed rounds, as Jio Platforms listed at a 21% premium and Hitesh Oberoi stepped down as Info Edge CEO.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 28 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹144,290 per 10g and silver at ₹196,060 per kg, both dipping slightly as Comex slips. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
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Bengaluru-based AI infrastructure startup Simplismart has raised $14 million in a Series B funding round led by Dallas Venture Capital (DVC), with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax. The all-primary round values the company at around $100 million. Founded in 2022 by Amritanshu Jain and Devansh
A week after its public launch, Maasi has raised ₹6 crore to train and place nannies in Bengaluru. Its website says background checks start after a family selects a caregiver, and the weekly growth rate sits on a base of 1,200 parents.
Amazon and Tata Motors are combining to put 3,000 electric vehicles on the road across India, beginning in Delhi for the festive season. The rollout will include light and medium duty electric trucks for city deliveries and longer freight routes.
A Dhanteras gold purchase once meant a visit to a crowded jewellery shop, a long wait at the counter and a careful trip home. This year, the same purchase can be made from your phone in a few minutes, starting with as little as INR 10. The gold you buy
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The founders sold Aldun in January and launched dubdub two months later. The seed backs a trivia app with 20,000 downloads, a retention claim without a number and no stated revenue model.
Rotoris says 2,100 watches sold out in days. At the prices on its website that is roughly ₹13 crore to ₹27 crore of sales, and the round's own figures do not match at today's exchange rate.
Eight funding rounds closed on 27 October 2026. Cent raised $15 million, and SoftBank cut its stake in Ola Electric by 1.2%.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 27 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹142,850 per 10g and silver at ₹194,010 per kg, both falling as yesterday's rebound fades. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Cent's Series A is three times its seed and partly debt. The research on scanning people without symptoms is divided, and the company's own scan count has two definitions in circulation.
The Supreme Court has asked the Center to reply to a plea filed by the DNPA against portions of the DPDP Act and Rules. The petition says that data protection rules could curtail press freedom, investigative journalism, source confidentiality and the right to information.
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Indian AI startup Sarvam has signed a 5-year deal with the MoD to create AI applications for the Army, Navy and Air Force. Sarvam will create AI tools for military operations, training, decision making, target acquisition and sensor to shooter data fusion under the MoU with HQ IDS
Meta wants to raise $95 billion for infrastructure for AI and superintelligence projects, including data centers and building AI agents. It will first issue $35 billion via underwritten public offerings, and then $60 billion via an at-the-market programme.
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Blackstone is expanding its India operations and global capabilities by opening its first Global Capability Center (GCC) outside the US in Bengaluru. The center will assist financial, technology, legal, compliance and human resources departments and will collaborate with Blackstone’s global teams.
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Microsoft is providing voluntary leave incentives to about 60,000 employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK as it seeks to balance staff expenses against increasing spending on AI infrastructure. The program is intended for selected personnel and follows previous staff cutbacks.
The seed round backs an Indian quantum dot infrared chip with no public prototype data yet. onsemi has already bought a US rival, and another Indian startup raised on the same import-substitution case four days earlier.
Anthropic has filed for a US IPO and plans to issue its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker “ANT.” The producer of Claude posted first-half 2026 revenue at $16.3 billion, up 14 times year-on-year, buoyed by booming enterprise demand.
Five funding rounds closed on 26 October 2026. Matiks raised $10 million, and Ather Energy turned profitable in Q2 FY27.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 26 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹143,460 per 10g and silver at ₹196,850 per kg, both rebounding as Comex rises, though Fed rate fears cap gains. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Bucketlistt.com has raised Rs. 7.6 crore in a seed round led by Kairon Capital, with participation from Titan Capital, Divisa Family Office and Kunal Popat. Bucketlistt.com helps travellers discover and book verified travel experiences, from skydiving in Mt. Abu to front-row seats at the Ganga Aarti
India has revised the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989, to allow OEM built flex-fuel vehicles to operate on E85 and E100 ethanol. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on 23 October 2026 notified new testing, certification and emission criteria for high-ethanol automobiles.
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CEO Elon Musk said SpaceX has raised $40 billion in debt financing to buy AI chips, with money coming in the first and second quarters of 2027. The money will be used mostly to purchase GPUs as SpaceX grows its artificial intelligence business.
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Nokia has signed a five year deal with L&T Technology Services (LTTS) for engineering and R&D support in India. As part of the arrangement, LTTS will set up an Offshore Development Center and a dedicated engineering team.
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Eternal’s District is looking into specialised live-event spaces as a way to lower concert expenses, and protect its business against AI-driven booking disruption. The company is in discussions with governments and possible partners to build event infrastructure in major Indian cities.
Eternal, the parent company of Blinkit and Zomato, has ruled out selling its own-brand products on its quick-commerce platform and will instead focus on third-party brands. Heavy investment is required by private labels, said CEO Albinder Dhindsa.
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IBM India has acquired a 10-year lease for 2.83 lakh sq ft in Bagmane Solarium City in the Whitefield-Brookefield district of Bengaluru. The lease comes with a monthly rent of INR 2.49 crore from February 2026 and a 15% hike every three years.
Firstwork raised $15 million, and Konwert closed a pre-Series A round, as Tonbo Imaging and Zetwerk made their market debuts and Swiggy shares fell 16% after Q2.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 23 October 2026. 24K gold slips 0.35% to ₹143,130 per 10g and silver falls 2.16% to ₹196,050 per kg, dropping below ₹200,000. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
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India’s government intends to bring in SIM-binding laws for WhatsApp, Telegram and other phone-number-based messaging apps from Jan 1, 2027, to reduce cyber fraud and misuse of mobile numbers. The proposed framework requires that the user keeps the registered SIM or eSIM active to continue access.
Chinese energy storage firm Sigenergy forms a JV with Failte Energy of India to invest $250 mn in India, With this investment, JV will set up production facilities for inverter and battery energy storage systems. Sigenergy plans to launch its inverter plant by the second quarter of 2027.
Swiggy wants to move Instamart to an inventory-led strategy in the next three quarters, which could enhance working capital by 8-10 days and increase contribution margins by 80 basis points. The move will offer Instamart more say over price, product selection and availability.
Vikram Solar will commission production at its 9 GW N-type TOPCon solar cell plant in Gangaikondan, Tamil Nadu, in December 2026. The factory is expected to be commissioned in phases and is intended to lessen India’s reliance on imported solar cells.
OpenAI is apparently planning to raise about $30 billion from investors and has dropped its valuation aim by $150 billion to $1.25 trillion. The increased valuation comes as the growing scrutiny over AI spending, infrastructure expenses and long-term profitability.
Barclays is planning to shed 5,000 positions, or 5% of its staff, in an AI-driven cost-cutting move. The UK bank wants to use technology and automation to save fixed expenses and over 60 per cent of the employment being cut are support activities.
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CureBay raised INR 100 crore and four more startups closed rounds, as Swiggy's Q2 loss narrowed 16% and Jio Platforms' IPO crossed three times subscription.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 22 October 2026. 24K gold falls 1.33% to ₹144,420 per 10g and silver drops 2.80% to ₹203,650 per kg as rising oil prices stoke inflation worries. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
ndian automaker Force Motors has teamed up with Rosmerta Auto Recycling to provide authorised vehicle scrapping and recycling in India. The cooperation would assist Force Motors customers to dispose of end-of-life vehicles with proper documentation, depollution, dismantling and material recovery.
Anthropic has released its proactive AI agent Claude Duet, which is designed to automate tasks across connected apps and function in the background. It is offered as a study preview for US-based Claude Pro and Max subscribers and connects with email, calendars and business applications.
Nestle India has responded to an FSSAI notice asking for scientific evidence to back the Lactogen Pro 1 label claim that its whey protein is “easy to digest”. The food regulator is tightening the scrutiny on health and nutrition claims especially in case of infant food products.
Shiprocket has forayed into the **food delivery market** with its fastrr platform, in partnership with Vegorama Group, which runs Bikkgane Biryani and Punjabi Angithi. The direct-ordering concept is designed to help restaurants cut aggregator commissions.
KENT RO Systems has joined the renewable energy sector of India by investing INR 250 crore to set up a lithium battery and inverter facility in Noida. Its new division, Kent New Energy, will start with 3.5 GWh of capacity and target 10 GWh in six months.
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion penalties for breaching consumer protection and user data privacy regulations. It determined Meta deceived users about safeguarding their personal information, following enquiries stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
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Eternal, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, wants to internationally debut its privacy-focused AI helper Dark.AI by the end of 2026. Founder Deepinder Goyal said the platform is for customers who want to have private talks, do sensitive research and make secret requests.
AuxoAI raised $20.7 million and three more startups closed rounds, as Jio Platforms opened India's biggest IPO and Eternal's Q2 profit rose 92%.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 21 October 2026. 24K gold slips 0.16% to ₹146,570 per 10g and silver falls 0.80% to ₹210,250 per kg, now down more than 12% in a month. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
OYO’s parent PRISM has cut its proposed IPO fresh issuance by almost half to INR 3,350 crore from roughly INR 6,650 crore on the back of strong cash creation and improved balance sheet. Most of the IPO proceeds will be used to repay or prepay debt.
Carlsberg India plans to file for an IPO this week and could list in the stock market as soon as December after raising as much as $700 million. The Danish brewer is rumoured to be organising investor roadshows and is collaborating with Kotak Mahindra Capital, Citigroup and JPMorgan.
The US government has blocked Chinese AI firm DeepSeek from civilian federal agency computers due to cybersecurity threats and fears that sensitive data could end up in China. The Department of Homeland Security order bans agencies from buying DeepSeek services and goods.
SBI has detected 3,897 customer records with personally identifiable information among roughly 375,000 documents that were supposedly obtained on the dark web. The potential data leak includes client IDs, email addresses, mobile numbers, home addresses and banking related details.
Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms has launched India's biggest share sale, seeking to collect INR 302 billion ($3.2 billion) through its initial public offering (IPO). The Jio IPO, priced at INR 1,065 to INR 1,119 a share, would help to repay debt raised to grow the telecom and digital operations.
Anthropic may spend as much as $750 billion on computing capacity in the next years as it prepares for a massive US IPO. The developer of the Claude chatbot reported a $80.7 billion net loss for the first six months of 2026, mostly owing to accounting penalties.
Two funding rounds closed on 19 October 2026. Even Healthcare raised $50 million, and Urban Company's board cleared a fundraise of up to INR 2,500 crore.
DP World will invest the remaining $2 billion of its $5 billion investment in India as demand and capacity expansion increase. The global ports and logistics giant has already invested $3 billion in India and will concentrate on ports, logistics centers, warehouses etc.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 19 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹148,130 per 10g and silver at ₹211,590 per kg, both edging lower even as Comex rises, with Dussehra close. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Bharti Airtel becomes the first telecom operator to comply with the new mandate by offering three voice-only prepaid recharge plans at INR 185, INR 203 and INR 206. The packs also come with unlimited local, STD and roaming calls, 300 SMS and free HelloTunes, but no bundled mobile data.
InvoiceCloud said on Tuesday it will invest INR 350 crore over 3 years to scale up its global innovation hub in Hyderabad, concentrating on areas including artificial intelligence, product development etc. The digital billing and payments startup has grown its India team to over 250 employees.
Tesla has announced the opening of bookings for the next-generation Roadster Performance and Thrust models in India with an initial amount of INR 5.01 lakh. The electric sports car will offer phenomenal acceleration while the special Rocket version may feature rocket-inspired propulsion.
Even's valuation has tripled in 18 months. The company will use the round to scale a model where doctors are rewarded when patients get better, not when hospitals do more.
India may impose a transfer pricing audit for numerous financial years, with Truecaller potentially facing a tax demand of up to $90.85 million. The Swedish Tax Authority has already made its first formal decision for the 2022/23 fiscal year.
JLR India is growing its retail network in Delhi-NCR with a move to a larger integrated facility in Delhi and the inauguration of a new dealership in Gurugram. The luxury car company now has 33 retail outlets in 26 Indian cities, buoyed by high demand for its products.
The food safety agency highlighted the necessity of upholding prescribed temperatures throughout the supply chain to prevent spoiling and hazardous microbiological growth. FBOs must employ clean covered vehicles, food-grade packaging, and maintain correct records and traceability.
Sauce's first jewellery bet is backed by the Mokobara co-founders and the family office behind HOCCO, all from its own portfolio. The brand is pre-revenue until November and a 30-store target.
Brazilian aerospace giant Embraer has signed a deal to buy a 51% share in Mahindra Group-controlled Novavayu Aerospace, strengthening its foothold in India’s commercial aviation and defence industries. The contract will extend Embraer's cooperation with Mahindra and boost its expansion in India.