L&T Technology Services (LTTS) has signed a five-year contract with Nokia to support the Finnish telecom equipment maker’s engineering and research and development activities in India, the company said in an exchange filing on Monday.

Under the agreement, LTTS will back Nokia R&D programmes in product engineering, software development, system integration and product support.

A Special MP/MLA Court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on Monday acquitted Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case over remarks he allegedly made against Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018.

Rahul was present in the court when Additional Civil Judge Shubham Verma pronounced the verdict, according to LiveLaw. The court held that the remarks were not defamatory in nature.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has refused to disclose the name and version of the software used during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, citing “commercial confidence”, “trade secrets” and “intellectual property rights.” The poll body, however, said it had not developed or procured any new software for the exercise.

IndiGo and Air India Group on Sunday announced plans to shift about one-third of their international flights from Mumbai airport to Navi Mumbai between January and the summer of next year.

This is in contrast to foreign carriers who have opposed the proposed relocation.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital ‌Oslo, has not awarded ​him a Peace Prize.

Trump ​made the comments at a political rally in Port Huron, ​Michigan, ahead of next week's midterm elections.

Cyclone Arnab has moved west-northwestwards over Eastcentral and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal in the past six hours, and is expected to make landfall on Andhra Pradesh coast around October 28, intensifying into a 'severe cyclonic storm', the Indian Metrological Department (IMD) said on Monday.

It is very likely to move northwestwards, intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm and reach Westcentral Bay of Bengal near Andhra Pradesh coast around morning of 28th October, 2026.

The Supreme Court-appointed High Powered Enquiry Committee (HPEC), probing the alleged violence during the July Jantar Mantar protests, will hold a two-day sitting here on October 29 and 30 to hear affected persons and record evidence on the alleged use of pellet guns and harassment of female protesters, officials said on Saturday.

The panel will hold its proceedings from 11 am onwards at its office at Shiksha Sadan, 17 Rouse Avenue Institutional Area, they said.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is reviewing short selling and securities lending and borrowing (SLB) to improve liquidity and price discovery, while developing safeguards to prevent misuse of trading terminals, Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Saturday.

The regulator is also planning to bring its inspection portals into a single digital workflow to make supervision faster and more consistent.

The Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) has urged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to postpone the INDIA bloc's November 1 rally at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan until after November 10, warning that it could disrupt business worth Rs 10,000 crore during the peak Diwali shopping season.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Friday that core investment companies (CICs) that access public funds, directly or indirectly, must register with the central bank, and that non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) classified in the upper layer are required to list on stock exchanges.

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