A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the constitution of a committee or a commission to determine whether the Ram temple at Ayodhya stands on the exact premises and land which was adjudicated by the apex court in its 2019 verdict.

In a landmark judgment delivered on November 9, 2019, a five-judge constitution bench of the apex court had paved the way for the construction of the Ram Temple by a trust at the disputed site at Ayodhya.

The government on Friday extended the customs duty exemption on cotton imports by two months till December 31, 2026, from the earlier deadline of October 31, 2026, to improve the availability of the fibre for the domestic textile industry.

The Ministry of Finance, through a notification dated October 30, amended the existing notification issued on May 30, 2026, to extend the exemption.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday approved four major corporate transactions, headlined by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel's 5.1 billion euro acquisition of a 16.2 per cent stake in UK-based telecommunications major Vodafone Group PLC.

The Vodafone transaction is being executed through Vega SAS, a French holding company and subsidiary of Maya SAS, which serves as Niel's family investment vehicle.

Axis Trustee Services Limited, the trustee for the Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds issued by Yes Bank, has asked the private sector lender to reinstate the bonds and take all necessary corporate actions within three days, failing which it said contempt proceedings would be initiated before the Supreme Court.

The trustee alleged wilful disobedience by the lender of the Supreme Court’s October 15 judgment.

India's independent regional navigation satellite system NavIC was restored to its minimum operational configuration of four satellites on Friday as Isro successfully launched its navigation satellite NVS-03, which was placed into the designated injection orbit by a GSLV rocket.

Two foreign nationals, one of whom was a crew member of German airline Lufthansa, died after likely being electrocuted while swimming in the pool of the five-star Conrad Bengaluru hotel on Friday evening, Press Trust of India reported. The incident occurred at the swimming pool on the third floor of the hotel, located in the Halasuru area, on Friday evening, PTI reported, citing police.

Concerned over the rising trend of filing criminal cases after the failure of relationships, the Supreme Court on Friday said that physical intimacy during good times cannot be branded as rape later just because the alliance soured or broke.

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahdevan, which discharged a Kerala resident man of charges of rape and cheating.

The Odisha government on Friday intensified relief and rescue operations and prepared to air-drop food packets in flood-hit Ganjam and Gajapati districts, where thousands of people have been marooned for over 24 hours due to floods triggered by incessant rain during cyclone Arnab, officials said.

Indian retail investors borrowed ₹2,228 crore ($234.06 million) to buy Jio Platforms shares ​on Wednesday, making it the fourth-largest margin-funded stock in the country, as strong listing-day demand encouraged traders to take on more risk.

Shares of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's telecom and digital company jumped 26.7% in debut trade, valuing it at around $137 billion and making it India's ‌second-largest listed company by market capitalisation.

Amid the IDBI bank disinvestment row, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has expressed solidarity with the bank employees and questioned the government's decision to sell off the profitable public bank to a Canadian firm.

The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha asserted that public banks are not assets to be sold off, they are tools to build the nation.

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