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Economic worries are feeding voter discontent ahead of Brazil’s presidential runoff on Sunday, helping the conservative challenger’s prospects. Once defined by the size and strength of its labor movement, the number of unionized workers in Latin America’s biggest economy has shru

Revenue from operations rose 26.1% YoY to Rs 1,39,140 crore in Q2FY27, compared with Rs 1,10,323 crore in Q2FY26. For the first half of FY27 (H1FY27), revenue from operations increased to Rs 2,84,267 crore from Rs 2,30,458 crore in the corresponding period last year. Gross refini

Russia and Ukraine launched a torrent of aerial strikes overnight that suggested any prospect of peace — touted by the White House — was a long way off. The Kremlin’s barrage hit a bridge and ambulance station, while Kyiv reportedly fired upwards of 600 drones on the Moscow regio

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Its net profit stood at Rs 47.91 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 104.02 crore in the quarter from Rs 33.06 crore a year ago, according to a regulatory filing. During the first six months of this fiscal, net profit rose to Rs 101.89 crore from Rs 99.17 crore

A string of AI cyberattack warnings intensified fears the technology would overwhelm corporate and government systems worldwide. Soon after web developers used AI to identify a bug affecting the majority of the world’s websites, Cloudflare noted a surge in attempts to exploit the

Tonbo Imaging’s promoters and investors have realised substantial gains from the company’s IPO, which closed earlier this week post witnessing an overwhelming demand from investors. The company’s three cofounders — CEO Arvind Lakshmikumar, CBO Ankit Kumar and chief commercial off

The benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond yield ended at 7.4596%, after closing at 7.4427% in the previous session. The yield has risen 69 basis points over the last 10 weeks. Yields move inversely to prices. The Reserve Bank of India raised the repo rate to 5.50% earlier this month, its fir

“I Would Never…Why?” Trend: 15M Views This sound is being used for when you deny something fast and then reveal you’ve actually thought about it. The audio starts with: “No, I would never vape. That’s disgusting and unhealthy.” Then ends with: “Why, do you have one?” Creators kee

The company could look to raise around 30 billion rupees ($316.56 million), the bankers said. The bankers requested anonymity as they are not authorised to speak to media. JSW Paints did not reply to a Reuters email seeking comment. India's JSW Paints is likely to raise funds thr

AI discovered a massive cyber-security flaw - here's what happened Governments and cyber-security agencies around the world are scrambling to contain a massive flaw in internet technology, after AI discovered issues that could be exploited by hackers. Developers of the PHP platfo

Bengaluru-based eMudhra will exit its global SSL/TLS certificate business after a security incident prompted Google, Mozilla, and Apple to block affected certificates. The company said on Thursday that its board decided to exit the business, which contributes around 1% of its glo

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

India’s manufacturing story is moving beyond assembling finished products. Startups are developing specialised components, materials and engineering systems that power industries ranging from electric mobility and aerospace to energy storage and computing infrastructure. The semi

Liz’s view Why does Meta need to be a player in the AI race? It isn’t Google, organizing the entire internet; or Microsoft, the operating system of corporate America; or Amazon, the backbone of digital commerce. Those companies have an existential stake in the future of websites,

Small-cap stock to buy after Q2 Results 2026: The key benchmark indices continue to remain under the selling heat for the third straight session on Thursday. The Nifty 50 index finished 123 points lower at 22,687, the BSE Sensex corrected 460 points and closed at 73,249, while th

Stock market news: Indian equities declined for the third consecutive session on Thursday, 21 October as escalating conflict in the Middle East drove oil prices up to $112 a barrel, fuelling inflation concerns for the world's third-largest crude oil importer. The Nifty 50 fell 0.

Foodtech and quick commerce platform Swiggy reported a 36.1% year-on-year growth in operating revenue to Rs 7,571 crore in Q2 FY27 from Rs 5,561 crore in Q2 FY26, while its losses narrowed 15.6% to Rs 922 crore from Rs 1,092 crore in the year-ago quarter. For the first half of FY

American Express is bringing Airbnb into its travel rewards platform. The companies on Thursday announced a new partnership to bring more than 1 million Airbnb listings to Amex's travel portal and allow cardholders to earn rewards when booking the stays. It does not currently all

Thinking Machines’ Tinker changed how people do post-training. You write the training loop in plain Python on your laptop, and Tinker runs the forward and backward passes on its GPUs. We’re big fans, and so are many of the teams we work with. As those teams scale up, however, the

On October 21, 2026 the PHP and Node.js projects released security updates addressing vulnerabilities that can allow remote code execution. Teams running either runtime should identify affected services and apply the appropriate patches immediately. Applying those takes more than

Micron pulls the plug on future 4F² DRAM after two decades of research in dramatic shift — company says architecture offers no meaningful density advantages, increases manufacturing complexity and costs, and has fundamental scaling limitations Micron goes against the industry? DR

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has waived margin requirements for trades using proceeds from sales under the early pay-in (EPI) mechanism, a move aimed at easing margin-funding requirements. In a circular issued on Thursday, the capital markets regulato

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Hello, this is Leonie Kidd with today's edition of Morning Squawk. The pickup in volume during super early trading has been overwhelmingly to the downside. Futures are worse, Asia c

Retro Atari VCS platform will end with the closure of its software store in February 2027 — OS update will be released removing reliance on Atari servers and opening up homebrew development The modern VCS with its AMD APU-powered architecture only received a tepid response when i

Deep-tech venture capital firm Unicorn India Ventures (UIV) has launched operations in the US, appointing former Google executive Kishore Kanakamedala as Venture Partner to lead the expansion. The move aims to help Indian deep-tech startups access US markets, investors and techno

Binny Bansal-backed AI startup ShopOS has launched Sloosh, a self-service platform that makes the image and video generation technology it uses for enterprise clients available to individual creators and small businesses. Speaking to Inc42, ShopOS cofounder Ajay PV said Sloosh ta

Shares of Tesla dropped 4% in pre-market trade on Thursday, October 22, as investor sentiment weakened after the electric vehicle maker cut its capital expenditure forecast, clouding Elon Musk’s plan to transform the company into an AI and robotics business. Capital expenditure w

Vedanta Q2 results 2026 date: Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Limited, on Thursday, October 22, released its earnings schedule for the second quarter of financial year 2026-27. The metal-to-mining conglomerate is set to announce its quarterly results by the month-end.The metal stock clo

Unknown hackers hijacked more than 300 Tor exit nodes and reconfigured them to favor unencrypted email traffic and redirect SSH connections through servers they controlled, a researcher reported Tuesday. The hijacking began in late August, when, according to Tor volunteers, the a

EA is closing BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, after more than 30 years — early development of the next Mass Effect game killed EA says it is focusing on Battlefield, Iron Man and a Fight Night revival instead. Electronic Arts (EA) is closing BioWare and its

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Nutanix announced on 22nd October its collaboration with NVIDIA, Supermicro and Netris on infrastructure for production AI. All three arrangements are described as plans, and the company's own disclaimer says some features will be offered "on a when-and-if-available basis." The A

The Scene MIDLAND, TX — This should be a glorious era for Diamondback Energy. In the 15 years since the oil company went public, it has leveraged savvy fracking skills and astute acquisitions to grow from a scrappy West Texas driller — its stock ticker is FANG — to a behemoth res

“I Don’t Give A F” Reaction Trend This sound is being used for situations where someone is talking or explaining but the creator is overwhelmed by the amount of information coming in. Creators put the reason in the hook, then use the audio to act out the reaction. 3.8M views “How

In 2015, all but two countries agreed to make an effort to keep global temperatures from reaching 1.5° C above pre-industrial readings. Since then, most of the world has largely treated what they signed on to as aspirational, and one of the largest emitters (the US) has alternate

17 Russian trawlers logged mapping undersea cables connecting the US and Europe — over 500 incidents of Russian vessels loitering over critical communications cables reported in under 5 years The Russians are apparently scouting the exact locations of this critical infrastructure

JanAI has partnered with four universities to expand access to artificial intelligence (AI) education in rural India and create opportunities for rural youth and entrepreneurs. The company has collaborated with Presidency University, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Be

Reliance Industries shares could be approaching a potential turnaround after a prolonged correction, with Monarch Networth Capital identifying a technical reversal pattern that may pave the way for a recovery of up to 20% over the next three to four months. The brokerage has name

Yes Bank shares have come under intense selling pressure, falling 21.23% in two weeks as uncertainty surrounding the bank's additional tier-1 (AT-1) bond liabilities weighs on investor sentiment. The stock has declined 30.60% over the past month and 11.29% over the past week, as

HCLTech has launched an AI-powered verification and validation (V&V) offering for automotive software, built on NVIDIA’s simulation technologies and AI models. The offering targets vehicle manufacturers and tier-1 suppliers developing software-defined vehicles. The offering links

Stocks to buy after Q2 Results 2026 | KEI Industries shares: KEI Industries shares are one of the beaten-down stocks on Dalal Street. In YTD, KEI Industries' share price has fallen by over 14%, while over the past six months it has corrected by over 20%. In one month, this stock