An Indian crew member was on Tuesday killed while eight others, including six Indians, sustained injuries in an Iranian strike on UAE shipping tankers in the Strait of Hormuz close to Oman, in a major escalation of the conflict in West Asia.

The UAE Ministry of Defence, in a statement, said its national tankers Mombasa and Al Bahiyah were targeted by two Iranian cruise missiles while transiting the southern shipping lane of the Strait of Hormuz, within Omani territorial waters.

India’s government is close to accepting an offer from Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. for IDBI Bank Ltd., possibly at a slightly higher price, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Fairfax, which had originally submitted a valuation for IDBI Bank that was rejected as it was below the government’s so-called reserve price, might raise its per-share bid by a few rupees.

Adani Enterprises Ltd has partnered with French clean-technology company Dioxycle to develop low-carbon chemical manufacturing in India, beginning with a pilot plant to produce formic acid using captured carbon dioxide and renewable electricity, the companies said on Friday.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Friday slammed the DMK for attempting to gain "political mileage" from the tragic stampede here last year and restraining him from visiting the district.

In his first visit here since the 2025 stampede that killed 41 persons, Vijay faulted the police for not alerting him about the swelling crowd at the TVK venue on September 27 last, nor taking any steps to cancel the meeting as the crowd had become unmanageable to control.

The Supreme Court would hear a batch of pleas seeking a fair and time-bound probe into the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on July 13.

On July 7, an Ayodhya court granted one-day police remand for three of the eight accused arrested in connection with the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple. The court authorised the remand for Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra and Karunesh Pandey.

Petrol blended with 20 per cent ethanol (E20) can reduce fuel economy by 3-5 per cent in some vehicles, the Oil Ministry said on Friday, but argued the impact is outweighed by benefits, including a higher octane rating, superior anti-knock characteristics, faster combustion, better pickup, smoother acceleration, cleaner engine operation, and lower lifecycle carbon emissions.

India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. approved an expansion of the country’s strategic oil reserves, highlighting a push to strengthen energy resilience following the shock of the Iran war.

The board of the country’s largest oil-and-gas producer gave the green light to add 1.75 million tons of capacity in Mangalore, Karnataka, to national crude reserves, according to a filing. The cost and timeline weren’t given.

The government has received WhatsApp's reply to the notice on 'username' feature and is examining it, according to sources.

The notice was issued to the Meta-owned messaging platform last Wednesday, questioning WhatsApp's proposed username feature, as the government flagged concerns that it could materially increase online fraud, phishing, digital arrest scams, and impersonation attacks.

The southwest monsoon covered the entire country on Thursday, 35 days after it entered the mainland through the Kerala coast, marking one of its slowest advances in the past five years.

The last time the southwest monsoon took longer to cover the entire country after its onset over Kerala was in 2021, when it reached the state on June 3 and completed its advance across India on July 13, taking around 40 days.

Central public sector enterprise National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has partnered with NLC India (NLCIL) to set up a 1,080 megawatt (MW) captive thermal power plant at Angul in Odisha to support its aluminium capacity expansion.

The two Navratna public sector companies have signed a joint venture-cum-shareholders' agreement to establish a 50:50 joint venture that will develop a 4x270 MW captive thermal power plant within Nalco's existing captive power complex at Anugul.

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