Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and over 30 Congress legislators, including some ministers, met for a dinner late on Thursday night, party sources said.

Ministers K H Muniyappa, Mankal Vaidya, Dr M C Sudhakar, MLAs N A Haris, Ramesh Bandisiddegowda, H C Balakrishna, Ganesh Hukkeri, Darshan Dhruvanarayana, Ashok Kumar Rai, K Y Nanjegowda were among those present in the meeting, the sources added.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday said the company is deepening its commitment to India's artificial intelligence ecosystem with massive infrastructure investments.

Microsoft is also strengthening its cloud footprint and focusing on skilling millions of Indians for an AI-driven future, he said.

The Expert Appraisal Committee under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has given its nod to the Andhra Pradesh government to prepare Terms of Reference for constructing seven water aerodromes in the state, including one in Visakhapatnam, official sources said.

Donald Trump risks becoming “the president who lost India”, warned US State Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove, calling out the Republican leader's "obsession" for Nobel Prize. Her remarks came during a congressional hearing on the US-India Strategic Partnership, amid escalating tensions over visa fees and tariffs.

British insurer Prudential said on Thursday it has sold a 4.5 per cent stake in ICICI Prudential Asset Management for ₹4,900 crore (about $545 million) ahead of the Indian fund manager's $1.2 billion IPO that opens on Friday.

The fund house is a joint venture between ICICI Bank, India's second-largest private lender, which holds 51 per cent, and Prudential, which owns the rest.

The Mexican Senate on Wednesday (local time) approved a plan to raise import tariffs of up to 50 per cent next year on goods coming from China, India, and other Asian economies, a move aimed at shielding domestic manufacturers even as business groups and affected governments objected, Reuters reported.

The proposal, which the lower house had already approved, will either increase or introduce new duties.

The board of directors at IndiGo, formally known as InterGlobe Aviation, will involve an external technical expert to work with the airline’s management and help determine the root causes and ensure corrective action so that such a disruption never occurs again, Chairman Vikram Singh Mehta said on Wednesday.

He dismissed allegations that IndiGo engineered the crisis, tried to influence the government’s flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules, compromised safety, or that the airline’s board was not involved.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the Central government as to why the situation that led to the cancellation of a number of flights by IndiGo precipitated, and termed it a crisis.

The high court said besides trouble and harassment caused to the stranded passengers, the question is of the losses caused to the country's economy.

Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday submitted a formal dissent during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to select the next Central Information Commissioner, India Today reported.

The closed-door meeting reportedly lasted nearly 1 hour and 25 minutes. According to the report, the Congress MP disagreed with the names proposed by the government for the top posts and handed over his dissent note.

The legal team of Byju Raveendran, founder of edtech firm Byju’s, said the Delaware court has amended the $1 billion judgment against Raveendran after fresh submissions made through a motion to correct the judgment of November 20, 2025.

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