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Jio Platforms IPO GMP Today: The countdown for Jio Platforms’ initial public offering (IPO) has begun as Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited-backed ₹30,213 crore issue is set to open for subscription this week. Jio Platforms IPO grey market premium (GMP) is showcasing str

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This week's coverage (October 12 to October 18, 2026) highlights semiconductor capacity, AI infrastructure, and the commercialization challenges behind ambitious technology strategies. Tata's Dholera fab has early customer commitments but must convert them into qualified, recurri

Stock market prediction for Monday, 19 October, 2026: The Indian stock market is likely to start on a cautious note, as GIFT Nifty signalled a muted opening on Monday, 19 October. Meanwhile, Asian markets traded lower on Monday , while US stock futures remained mixed on Sunday ev

Listen to this article in summarized format Read more: Can Nifty, Sensex rally further or will bears reign in? 5 factors to steer market this week The bank's shares have fallen by 17% in two trading sessions following the Supreme Court's verdict that upheld the January 2023 Bomba

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We hope you’ll forgive us on Semafor’s fourth anniversary for talking our own book, and for sharing here a lightly edited version of a note we sent Semafor’s staff earlier today: We have been asked a lot lately: When we launched Semafor four years ago, is this what we were expect

A fall in oil prices offered some support to bonds and Wall Street stock futures, limiting Asia's losses. Oil fell following US President Donald Trump's decision to waive some sanctions on Russia, though he later said a final decision on the matter had not been made. US Secretary

Listen to this article in summarized format Read more: Can Nifty, Sensex rally further or will bears reign in? 5 factors to steer market this week Meanwhile, six companies whose IPOs closed last week are scheduled to make their stock market debuts. HD Fire Protech will list on Oc

The News Control of the US Senate for the next two years could come down to how much the news media chooses to focus in the final weeks of the midterms on a tweet sent years ago by the younger half-sister of Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate. In 2012, Abdul El-Sayed’s half-s

Choppy markets always push us to evaluate new scenarios. Last week we saw the markets move higher but the constant volatile nature of the market forced us to look at every sector only for a limited timeframe. The strong sector rotation that emerges lead to some stock specific act

Chance of storms this week as Atlantic jet stream roars into life - Published The UK may see its first named storm of the autumn as forecasts show the potential for a deep area of low pressure to cross the UK later this week. A strengthening jet stream triggered by temperature co

A change in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) policy stance and rate hikes would impact companies with highly leveraged balance sheets or those overly dependent on short-term working capital. However, the leverage of Indian corporates, on average, is at decadal lows; hence, an all-

No party lasts forever, and Nestlé India Ltd has had a good one lately. The packaged-foods company has seen four quarters of solid year-on-year revenue growth. While revenue growth (domestic plus export sales) has tapered from a multi-quarter high of 25.4% in the June quarter to

* Stocks down 40% in 2026, worst among major indexes * Foreign investor outflow stands at $4.88 billion this year * Focus on Jakarta's response to MSCI downgrade threat By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Indonesian markets face a tense start on Monday after a warning

Stock market recap: Indian equities recovered from early profit booking on Friday. The Sensex rose about 700 points from its intraday low. The gains were driven by a fourth straight session of buying in IT stocks, cooling bond yields, easing crude oil prices, and a rupee that str

Menswear brand The Pant Project has raised ₹109 Cr (about $11.5 Mn) in a Series B funding round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investments (India) to expand its offline presence and broaden its apparel portfolio. Existing investor Sorin Investments also participated in the round, alo

It’s already called the biggest IPO in India, but Reliance Industries Limited is leaving no stone unturned. RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani has reportedly urged all 4.2 Lakh Reliance employees to invest in the IPO, even paying their salaries in advance. Whether this is a show of stren

Listen to this article in summarized format STATE OF THE MARKETS GIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a muted start GIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded higher by 25 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 23,119.5, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for a muted start on Monday. Tech View:

The Nifty 50 advanced 149 points, or 0.65%, to close at 23,146. A sustained close above the 23,150 mark could extend the recovery towards 23,300–23,500, according to Hariselvan Radhakrishnan, founder and CEO of HST Wealth. However, Radhakrishnan cautioned that Bank Nifty needs to

On the other hand, pricing pressure, generic competition, elevated raw material costs and a high base in the US business are likely to weigh on some players. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Aurobindo Pharma, Torrent Pharmaceuticals and Divi's Laboratories are expected to be among

Watch: Russian saboteur working for Ukraine shares reconnaissance videos A Russian man secretly working for Ukraine's intelligence services has shared videos of surveillance work he says he has done for Kyiv inside Russia. The man, who we are calling Ivan, claims to have played a

People playing loud music on buses could face £100 fine - Published Passengers who play loud music on buses in England could be fined up to £100 under an attempt by the government to crack down on antisocial behaviour. The measures also seek to tackle littering, vaping and threat

Tata's Dholera fab faces customer and shareholder tests as India's semiconductor push broadens, with packaging, chip services, AI hardware and infrastructure investments accelerating across the country's domestic technology ecosystem rapidly. Booked before launch, Tata's Dholera

Credit: DIGITIMES SEMI's latest 12-inch fab outlook projects double-digit annual growth in equipment spending from 2026 through 2029, with forecasts revised upward from its previous edition... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do n

Listen to this article in summarized format CHANDAN TAPARIA, HEAD – DERIVATIVES & TECHNICALS, WEALTH MANAGEMENT, MOTILAL OSWAL FINANCIAL SERVICES Nifty has formed a higher-top, higher-bottom structure, reclaimed its 20-day average and sustained above 23,000. A Morning Star patter

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GTA 6: Can you cheat on someone with a video game character? - Published Imagine your partner spending hours flirting with someone else, trying to hold their hand and taking them on dates. Most people would have questions. But what if that someone only exists inside a video game?

Inside the shadowy world of anti-Putin sabotage from within Russia - Published Two Russian men secretly working for Ukraine's intelligence services have given rare accounts of operations they claim to have been involved with, that have targeted military assets and personnel insid

Trump defends waiving Russia sanctions, says it keeps Moscow at negotiating table President Trump defended his decision to waive Russian sanctions on Sunday, writing in a Truth Social post that it keeps Moscow at the negotiating table amid backlash from both sides of the aisle ov

Announcing the Appwrite Databases Hackathon_ Build something new with Appwrite Databases from October 19–31, compete for prizes, and show us what you can create. There's always that one project you've been meaning to build. Maybe it's a developer tool that would make your workflo

Add ngrok to Next.js, FastAPI, Axum, and Gin Your web framework already knows when your app starts and stops. Four packages in the ngrok-samples GitHub organization hook into that to give your app a public ngrok endpoint. You don’t need a second terminal running ngrok http. Each

Web Bot Auth: How to identify AI agents and set policy for them Wikimedia asked AI companies to make their agents identifiable. Web Bot Auth, an IETF draft already verified by Cloudflare and AWS, does that. The hard part is the policy you attach. Web Bot Auth is an IETF draft pro

Factory and Databricks: Building Software Powered by Data October 19, 2026 - 3 minute read Company Partners Share Today, Factory is announcing a partnership with Databricks so customers can use the data and models in the Databricks Data + AI Platform to power software that is bui

AI agent deprovisioning: Revoking access doesn't erase what it read Revoking an AI agent's access stops new reads but not what it already learned. What OpenAI's dots reveal about deprovisioning, and four controls that help. When you revoke an AI agent's access to an app, the agen

Secret keys are only shown once on the API keys page - Category - Dashboard - Published The API keys page in the Clerk Dashboard no longer shows the full value of existing Secret keys. To reduce the chance of a Secret key leaking, the API keys page in the Clerk Dashboard now show

C2PA exclusion range flaw: Why signature verification must check coverage C2PA’s exclusion range flaw let a signature verify while covering zero bytes. The same bug hits SAML and JWT. A checklist for verifying what a signature covers. Signature coverage is the set of bytes a sign

WorkOS Pipes: connect your AI agents to 300+ tools without building OAuth or token refresh (Sponsor) An agent is useful. An agent that can access your tools is a value multiplier. But right now, every tool you want your agents to use, from Salesforce to Google Drive, means a sepa

Announcing MCP Events: your agent hears about changes in your Appwrite project_ The Appwrite MCP server now supports MCP Events. Agents can subscribe to new users, failed function executions, finished deployments, new rows, and uploaded files, and react the moment they happen. Un

Firecrawl for Google Cloud We're partnering with Google Cloud to power Gemini agents with data from the web and beyond. Gemini and ADK agents can now reach the live web and 100+ official data providers in Alexandria, Firecrawl's library of data for AI agents. - Buy through Google

Punjab National Bank (PNB) said it has a corporate loan pipeline of ₹1.58 lakh crore. The lender said it had sanctioned more than ₹2.5 lakh crore of corporate loans in the first half of FY27, compared with about ₹4 lakh crore in the whole of FY26. Also Read | Cash landing on you:

Clef is available on Ollama's cloud October 19, 2026 Clef, a 27B multimodal decision model from Cloudflare, is now available on Ollama. Users can run it locally or on Ollama’s cloud. Clef turns a state and a schema of typed questions into decisions. It supports text and image inp

Agent-to-agent authorization: What OpenAI's Hugging Face incident shows When a peer agent posted GO, an OpenAI agent read it as permission. Why agent-to-agent instructions need a delegation you can check, and how RFC 8693 does it. Agent-to-agent authorization is the check that ru