The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission's decision to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and other states.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant, SVN Bhatti and Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Election Commission on all the fresh petitions filed by different political leaders, challenging SIR exercises in different states on different grounds.

Domestic carrier IndiGo on Friday said it has approved an investment of $820 million (about Rs 7,270 crore) in its wholly-owned subsidiary InterGlobe Aviation Financial Services IFSC Private Limited for aircraft acquisition.

The investment will be made through a combination of equity shares and 0.01 per cent non-cumulative optionally convertible redeemable preference shares (OCRPS), in one or more tranches, the airline said in a statement.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Friday said that the regulator is working to strengthen the link between infrastructure building and the markets.

Speaking at Addressing the National Conclave on Reits & InvITs 2025, Pandey said, "Sebi's role is to strengthen the bridge between infrastructure and markets. On the primary market side, we will continue to simplify capital raising through initial public offerings (IPOs), rights issues and bonds."

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted a mega search operation in Jharkhand and West Bengal as part of a money laundering probe against the coal mafia in the two neighbouring states, officials said.

More than 40 premises are being covered in the raids that were launched around 6 am with almost 100 officials and staff of the federal probe agency participating.

India's Bharti Telecom, the holding company of Bharti Airtel, is looking to raise $1 billion through a bond sale, its second in two months, two sources aware of the matter said on Friday.

The company is set to issue ₹9,000 crore ($1.01 billion) worth of bonds maturing in two years and in three years and is likely to pay a coupon of 7.25 per cent and 7.35 per cent, respectively.

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has stopped import of Russian crude oil into its Special Economic Zone (SEZ) refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat, with effect from November 20, the company said in a statement late Thursday evening. This comes hours before the United States’ sanctions on Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil are supposed to come into effect (from November 21).

Aimed at providing fast and cost-effective parcel movement, Southern Railway for the first time would operate 'coast-to-coast' parcel express train service across Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

This initiative, a first of its kind by the Indian Railways, marks a significant step toward strengthening regional parcel mobility.

ACME Solar Holdings on Thursday said it has commissioned an additional 16 MW of its 100 MW wind power project, located in Surendaranagar, Gujarat.

This follows the first phase commissioning of 28 MW in October, 2025, a company statement said.

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has refuted claims made in an international study published by The Lancet that over 80 per cent of Indian patients hospitalised for a gastrointestinal procedure are colonised with at least one multi-drug-resistant organism (MDRO).

A sharp fall in immigration could leave the United States with a slower-growing, or even shrinking, labour force in the coming years, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Researchers Evgeniya A Duzhak and Addie New-Schmidt said net migration “fell sharply” this year to about 515,000 people, down from nearly 2 million in 2024. Their analysis, published on Wednesday, pointed to fewer undocumented arrivals and “somewhat higher” emigration.

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