India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned that cyclone 'Ditwah', currently hovering close to Sri Lanka and the southwest Bay of Bengal, is likely to intensify slightly and move towards the North Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coast by early November 30, triggering heavy to extremely heavy rainfall, strong winds and the risk of urban flooding across multiple southern states.

Air travel in India and abroad is set to face disruptions this weekend as thousands of Airbus A320 family aircraft are grounded for a mandatory software update. Airlines worldwide are expected to complete the upgrade by early next week.

In India, more than 350 A320-series planes operated by IndiGo and the Air India Group will be temporarily taken out of service for the exercise.

Amazon India has removed the referral fee for sellers on items priced below ₹1,000 until December 31, according to an Economic Times report. The referral fee, a commission charged by Amazon for each transaction, typically ranges between 2 per cent and 16.5 per cent depending on the product category.

President Donald Trump announced sweeping plans to crack down on immigration, saying current policy has eroded national progress and that he would “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover.”

In a pair of Truth Social posts late Thursday night in Washington, Trump said he would terminate “millions” of admissions under his predecessor Joe Biden.

The global fight against HIV (human immunodeficiency viruses) is facing its most serious setback in decades, according to a new World AIDS Day 2025 report from UNAIDS. The report titled 'Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response', warns that deep funding cuts and widespread service disruptions have put millions at greater risk, threatening to undo years of progress towards ending AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) by 2030.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Scheme to Promote Manufacturing of Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets, with a financial outlay of ₹7,280 crore. The first-of-its-kind initiative aims to create 6,000 metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) of integrated rare earth permanent magnet (REPM) manufacturing capacity in India, strengthening the country’s self-reliance in a strategically vital sector.

iPhone maker Apple Inc has told the Delhi High Court that the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) amended law, which allows penalties to be calculated on the basis of a company’s global turnover rather than its India-specific revenue, is “arbitrary” and could expose it to a penalty of nearly $38 billion, according to the petition reviewed by Business Standard.

The Indian government has expressed its disagreement with the IMF staff’s ‘baseline’ assumption that the 50 per cent US tariffs on its goods exports ‘would remain in place indefinitely’, based on which the staff pegged the country’s GDP growth at 6.6 per cent this year, and pared its 2026-27 projection by 2o basis points to 6.2 per cent. It linked the growth drag next year to the “high US tariffs — assumed to persist under the baseline, dent external demand and investment.”

The US on Wednesday (local time) stopped the processing of all immigration requests from Afghanistan citizens after two National Guard troops were shot near the White House in Washington.

Taking to X, the US Customs and Immigration Services, said, "Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols."

French aerospace and defence major Safran is open to establishing a final assembly line (FAL) for M88 engines and other critical equipment, which power Rafale aircraft, in India if the Indian armed forces decide to place additional sizable orders for these planes, its chief executive officer Olivier Andries said on Wednesday.

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