The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill to punish Russia and key buyers of its petroleum products, such as China and India, claiming that such trade helps fuel the Ukraine war.

The bill, renamed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, was approved by the Senate by an 86-11 vote.

India's food safety regulator will not agree to demands by global beverage companies to extend to one year its 90-day deadline to drop "energy drink" labels, a government source said on Friday, a decision which is set to disrupt the industry.

PepsiCo, Red Bull, Monster Beverage and billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance have locked horns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's food regulator amid strict enforcement actions over how alcohol, ‌beverage and food companies label their products.

The head of India’s only dedicated bullion exchange has stepped down, dealing a setback to the four-year-old platform as it struggles to gain traction in one of the world’s largest gold markets.

Ashok Kumar Gautam, the first chief executive officer of India International Bullion Exchange IFSC Ltd., has resigned citing personal reasons, according to people familiar with the matter.

India needs to be proactive on the safety and security of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector as firms increasingly adopt the technology, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran said on Friday. He cautioned that the sector may not have the luxury of waiting for risks to materialise before responding.

Four-year-old Akasa Air on Friday launched its loyalty programme as the airline seeks to provide enhanced travel experience and various benefits to passengers.

The airline, which started flying on August 7, 2022, on Friday completed four years, with its Founder and CEO Vinay Dube describing the journey so far as "extremely exciting".

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged that the conspiracy behind the Neet-UG 2026 paper leak was not a last-minute operation but a carefully planned exercise in which National Testing Agency (NTA) subject experts were allegedly cultivated months before the examination and used to obtain confidential question papers in return for illegal monetary gains.

US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders to crack down on birth tourism and limit the number of people eligible for birthright citizenship, weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his directive in this regard.

One order signed by Trump on Thursday targets people who engage in commercial "birth tourism" by seeking to deny them access to the country.

Global software giant Microsoft on Thursday announced that its latest data centre in Hyderabad has gone live, allowing users in India to run eligible Microsoft Cloud services and workloads from the city. “Built for the demands of the artificial intelligence (AI) era, it gives organisations more local choice to modernise critical systems, build new digital services, and turn AI ambition into measurable business impact through faster decisions, stronger customer outcomes.

Tarun Tejpal, journalist and former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine, was sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by the Bombay High Court on Thursday after it convicted him in the 2013 rape case.

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court overturned the ruling of a Sessions Court in Mapusa, which had acquitted Tejpal in the case.

Facing severe climate uncertainties, including the anticipated Super El Nino phenomenon, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday rolled out a series of climate-resilient initiatives in its Agriculture budget 2026-27, featuring a carbon trading scheme for farmers and a multi-year soil restoration drive.

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