​India has faced no pressure from the US to reduce its Russian crude imports, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday at an industry event.

"I never felt anything," ‌Puri said when asked ​if there has been ​pressure to cut Russian oil imports.

Indian frontier model company Sarvam has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS), Ministry of Defence, to set up an umbrella framework for artificial intelligence (AI) projects across the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force.

The framework also extends to joint, tri-service and integrated organisations under HQ IDS.

Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata on Monday challenged the resolution to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as the chairman of Tata Sons, which was passed at the September 17 board meeting of the holding company of the country's largest conglomerate.

Noel Tata wrote to Tata Sons' company secretary Suprakash Mukhopadhyay on Monday, challenging the resolution for the reappointment of Chandrasekaran beyond February 2027 as well.

Microsoft will offer employees in India a standard severance package, including one month of base salary for each completed year of service, health insurance and career transition services, as part of its voluntary retirement programme, the company said.

Microsoft India employees selected for the voluntary retirement scheme must decide by December 1, the company said.

L&T Technology Services (LTTS) has signed a five-year contract with Nokia to support the Finnish telecom equipment maker’s engineering and research and development activities in India, the company said in an exchange filing on Monday.

Under the agreement, LTTS will back Nokia R&D programmes in product engineering, software development, system integration and product support.

A Special MP/MLA Court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on Monday acquitted Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case over remarks he allegedly made against Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018.

Rahul was present in the court when Additional Civil Judge Shubham Verma pronounced the verdict, according to LiveLaw. The court held that the remarks were not defamatory in nature.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has refused to disclose the name and version of the software used during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, citing “commercial confidence”, “trade secrets” and “intellectual property rights.” The poll body, however, said it had not developed or procured any new software for the exercise.

IndiGo and Air India Group on Sunday announced plans to shift about one-third of their international flights from Mumbai airport to Navi Mumbai between January and the summer of next year.

This is in contrast to foreign carriers who have opposed the proposed relocation.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital ‌Oslo, has not awarded ​him a Peace Prize.

Trump ​made the comments at a political rally in Port Huron, ​Michigan, ahead of next week's midterm elections.

Cyclone Arnab has moved west-northwestwards over Eastcentral and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal in the past six hours, and is expected to make landfall on Andhra Pradesh coast around October 28, intensifying into a 'severe cyclonic storm', the Indian Metrological Department (IMD) said on Monday.

It is very likely to move northwestwards, intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm and reach Westcentral Bay of Bengal near Andhra Pradesh coast around morning of 28th October, 2026.

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