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A luxury cruise around the world has abruptly stopped, stranding passengers in Cambodia, as its operator blamed skyrocketing fuel costs. The Villa Vie Odyssey, a luxury vessel with rooms costing up to $11,000 a month, will disembark passengers and crew and find temporary accommod

Anant Raj Q2 results: Net profit rises 14% to ₹157 crore, revenue up 5% to ₹662 crore - Edited byAjay Vaishnav - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 17:05 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 17:05 IST Expanding operating margins are fueling profitability even as the real estate developer

Expert view: Srinivas Rao Ravuri, Chief Investment Officer (CIO), Bajaj Life Insurance, expects mid-teens earnings growth for Nifty 50 companies in FY27 and FY28. In an exclusive interview with Mint, Ravuri said the poor performance of some blue-chip companies over the last five

Vodafone Idea share price target: Vodafone Idea shares could rally as much as 143% from current levels under an optimistic scenario outlined by global investment banking firm Jefferies. However, the brokerage has also warned of significant downside risks, with its bearish outlook

Jaipur-based baby essentials brand Moms Home grew its quick commerce revenue from ₹1 Cr in FY25 to around ₹10 Cr in FY26, with the channel now contributing nearly 30% of its business The brand has developed a separate range of products for quick commerce and reworked its inventor

The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 352.64 points, or 0.48%, to settle at 73,246.03, recovering most of its sharp intraday losses. During the day, it tumbled 995.1 points, or 1.35%, to 72,603.57

Taiwan working on autonomous drone swarms to counter China’s increasingly aggressive grey-zone military tactics — island has already completed flight simulations, now working towards flight trials over maritime areas Taipei has also received its first shipment of U.S.-made V-BAT

The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad) and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on October 28 to collaborate on strengthening India’s digital payments ecosystem. The Cyber Manthan Ce

More than a year after introducing GCC-as-a-Service, LTM creates a dedicated business unit as TCS, Infosys and other technology companies expand their offerings for multinational firms setting up in-house centres

Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the "16-bit pet care game" is not really a game, but "a daily journal d

KPIT Technologies reported 0.2% year-on-year (YoY) revenue growth in constant currency in Q2 FY27, while its EBITDA margin rose 60 basis points quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 17.8%. The automotive software and engineering services company said it was accelerating AI adoption across

Bandhan Bank Q2 profit rises 24% QoQ to ₹622 crore, NII up 1.3% - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 16:51 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 16:51 IST An improved loan asset quality and steady credit expansion bolstered the lender's quarterly profitability, supported by robust retail b

In the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 95.01 against the dollar, then lost ground to touch an intra-day low of 95.29 and finally settled for the day at 95.28 (provisional), registering a decline of 21 paise over its previous close

Stock market today: Indian equity benchmarks ended lower on Wednesday, 28 October as rising oil prices weighed on investor sentiment. Jio Platforms, however, hogged the limelight after its blockbuster market debut made it the country's second-largest company by market capitalisat

Sending Diwali gifts to a handful of employees or clients is relatively simple. Sending hundreds of gifts to recipients spread across different cities is another matter. Addresses need to be verified, budgets finalized, packaging standardized and deliveries timed to arrive before

Both gold and silver edged lower in Wednesday’s trade on October 28 as investors cautiously awaited the US Federal Reserve’s policy decision later in the day. Markets were largely pricing in the possibility of the Fed keeping interest rates unchanged. MCX gold futures for Decembe

The crash occurred between Urda and Los Yébenes, in Toledo province, when a train travelling from Madrid towards Seville struck the rear of another that had stopped on the same track. Two carriages were knocked off the rails, one of them torn apart, with twisted metal and debris

Karnataka Bank shares rise 4% as Q2 profit jumps 37% to ₹436 crore - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 15:43 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 15:43 IST Karnataka Bank posted a sharp jump in quarterly profit driven by robust net interest income growth. The lender's asset quality showe

New model targets enterprises seeking to build AI-native operations through smaller, focused teams, with Asia Pacific as the first phase of rollout

Vals AI's Immigration Bench Exposes Claude Fable 5.1's Legal Blind Spots Vals AI tested 25 frontier models on 262 expert-written U.S. immigration questions and found even the best model leaves out one in four essentials. - Vals AI and Talent Mobility Fund launched Immigration Ben

South Korean chip giant SK Hynix reported a sevenfold increase in third-quarter profits from a year ago, the latest sign of a tech boom driving nationwide economic growth. The earnings, which were powered by surging demand from the AI infrastructure buildout, come after official

I got off the phone with a potential client whose company is doing great. The client, however, is not even thinking of selling the company as they see future growth over the next couple of years that they wish to materialize in order to get a larger exit. The conversation prompte

Subsea cable projects owned by US companies such as Google and Meta face some of the greatest risks from the threat of deep-sea sabotage in the Pacific Ocean, according to a new report. That coincides with Chinese research ships spending an extraordinary amount of time apparently

Standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs land in Oracle Cloud's multi-gigawatt deployment — our independent benchmarking of a local server reveals Vera's massive memory bandwidth lead over dual Xeon 6 server Standalone Vera is generally available on OCI Superclusters now. Nvidia and Oracle ha

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Editor’s note: The following is the latest profile in a series of articles about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. Read the previous interviews in the series including with MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan here

A free app that sends you one piece of fine art each day with a short story about it. You can also browse a catalog of 4,500+ works, from the Renaissance to Japanese prints. Now that Arc is sunsetting, this is one of the alternatives people are moving to. A free, open-source brow

Featured Story HPE claims to have beaten Cisco to a proper self-driving network Marvis, described as an AI brain, now unifies all the various parts of the Aruba and Mist portfolios to create a truly autonomous system, says HPE. Orange, Telenor and Vodafone explored how they plan

Defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro reportedly fled Brazil for the US following his election loss, sowing doubt over the future of the right in the country and South America more broadly. Bolsonaro — who faces a corruption investigation but lost his legal immunity af

Let’s Game Now, a gaming and esports company, has raised Rs 30 crore in a funding round co-led by Anand Mahindra and Bestvantage Investments, with participation from a UAE-based family office. The fresh funds will be used to accelerate the development of the Indian Super Gaming L

The Finnish and Norwegian leaders broke a Western European taboo and held talks with Russia’s president, sparking division on the continent as it pushes to strengthen backing for Ukraine. The 90-minute telephone conversation was met alternatingly with anger and acceptance in Euro

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. Investors will assess two major market forces today: the Fed decision and another round of tech earnings. Inflatio

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition took a slight lead in a tight election race, defying exit poll projections, though he remained short of the numbers required to form another government. Critics argued the results signaled voter disillusionment with Netanyahu’

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they struck Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery while the US and Israel were reportedly preparing for a new round of combat with Tehran, driving oil higher on fears of fresh escalation in the Middle East. Though crude flows out of the region have rise

Tanzania announced its first gas discovery in more than a decade, a finding that comes as African nations race to boost their energy independence. The continent, which imports the majority of the fuels it uses, has been badly exposed by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, wh

You may get the right to find out what your colleagues earn - here's why - Published Employees should legally be able to find out what their colleagues are earning, the UK's equality watchdog has said. Bosses should be required to respond to questionaires about colleagues' pay to

Luxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs - Published A luxury cruise ship on a years-long voyage around the world said it suspended operations due to extraordinarily high fuel costs, leaving passengers stranded in Cambodia. The US-based operator of

IT vendor lists massive $60 million AI supercomputer on eBay with 9,600 Nvidia A100 GPUs and 4,200 AMD EPYC CPUs, plus free shipping — 300 racks of decommissioned GPUs on offer If you ever wanted to own your own supercomputer or data center while earning eBay cashback, Core 4 Sol

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Wednesday 28 October 2026 Top stories today: - Fed seen holding rates despite hot inflation, with Dec. hike in focus - Anthropic reports early drug development gains with 6 partners - SK Hynix +11% as Q3 revenue +328% YoY, operating profit +632% - Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 debuts

Revenue rose 26% as domestic demand surged, but higher commodity costs dragged Ebitda margin down 308 basis points to 8.9%.

Info Edge dividend 2026: The board of directors of Info Edge (India) Ltd has declared an interim dividend of ₹3 per share for eligible shareholders. The company board approved the interim dividend proposal in the meeting held on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The parent company of

Anthropic’s reported plans to go public have put the artificial intelligence company and its Claude chatbot in the spotlight, raising a key question for Indian investors: how can they gain exposure to one of the most closely watched names in the global AI race? The company report

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Ravi Vasantraj, Global Delivery Head at Mphasis, tells the story of a $40 million yacht that would not start. Technicians charging $5,000 per visit came and went without fixing the problem. Then a mechanic from the garage arrived with a hammer, knocked once on the engine, and got

28th October 2026 If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work

PhysicsWallah’s School of Startups (PW SoS) has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) to support early-stage ventures, particularly in Tier-II and III cities and rural areas. The partnership combines

Researchers from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela), in collaboration with researchers from IIT Guwahati, IIT Bombay, and NISER Bhubaneswar, have developed new materials that can emit different colours of light under ultraviolet (UV) light exposure. Thes

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Malaysian customs seized about 49.5 million ringgit ($12.11 million) worth of advanced AI chips this month while investigating a syndicate suspected of routing the chips through the country’s main airport, Reuters reported. Malaysia tightened export controls last year on advanced