Water access is essential for small farmers' income growth; calls for water security, transparency, insurance and affordable credit reforms.
Guaranteed access to water is the principal policy prerequisite for improving small and marginal farmers' incomes; because much land is rain fed, water insecurity amplifies climate and income risks, so water security must be a national infrastructure priority. Operational reform priorities include improving monitoring and transparency of welfare disbursement, ensuring benefits reach recipients, promoting climate resilient agriculture, timely crop insurance settlements, and easier access to affordable credit to stabilise farmer income.

Airfares: intervention to curb opportunistic airline pricing and enforce caps on UDAN routes using monitoring units.
The central executive intervenes to curb opportunistic pricing by airlines in extraordinary circumstances through proactive monitoring units and targeted measures, and maintains a cap on fares for UDAN short distance routes to ensure affordable pricing amid market concentration risks.

Elior Group appoints Ashwani Vohra as Managing Director of Elior India to drive growth and strengthen operations.
Elior Group has appointed Ashwani Vohra as Managing Director of Elior India, charging him with implementing the company's growth strategy, strengthening operational excellence, transforming and industrialising operations, building client and consumer centric teams, and advancing nutrition, wellness, and sustainability focused offerings to reinforce the Group's presence in the Indian market.

Rural employment guarantee scheme changes would raise sanctioned days to 125 while shifting 40% of costs to states.
Proposed changes would extend sanctioned work to 125 days under VB-G RAM G while requiring states to fund 40% of costs, shifting fiscal responsibility from the Union to states and potentially reducing work availability and timely wage payments compared with the current MGNREGA guarantee of 100 days.

Nuclear energy bill opens civil sector to private participation with statutory regulator and uncompromised safeguards.
The SHANTI Bill opens the civil nuclear sector to private participation while requiring specified safeguard and surveillance mechanisms and conferring statutory status on the regulatory board to oversee compliance and safety, with adjustments to accommodate private players but without compromising oversight.

Startek Malaysia wins three HR Asia awards for workplace culture, DEI and sustainable workplace practices achievements.
Startek Malaysia received three HR Asia 2025 awards for workplace culture, DEI and sustainable workplace practices, including Best Companies To Work For In Asia (Malaysia Edition), the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award as the only BPO recipient, and the Sustainable Workplace Award; awards were based on employee surveys, culture audits and HR Asia's TEAM assessment together with policy reviews and employee feedback.

Truecaller voicemail offers free, on device message storage with instant AI transcription and spam protection in multiple Indian languages.
Truecaller launched a free, device native voicemail for Android in India that stores messages locally, provides instant AI transcription in twelve Indian languages, and includes built in spam and scam protection, eliminating the need for traditional voicemail numbers or PINs and enabling unlimited setup within the Truecaller app.

adidas unites Lionel Messi with India's world champions at Purana Qila to celebrate multi-sport excellence and inclusion.
adidas staged a promotional collaboration at Purana Qila that brought Lionel Messi together with Indian world champions to promote multi-sport culture, emphasize mutual respect among elite athletes, and advance adidas' brand positioning through staged imagery, athlete statements, and social media amplification.

Rohit Markan appointed Executive Vice President Industrial Solutions Asia Pacific, to lead ContiTech's APAC industrial operations.
Rohit Markan is appointed Executive Vice President Industrial Solutions Asia Pacific at ContiTech, effective November 17, 2025, reporting to Philip Nelles and based in Singapore to manage industrial operations across APAC, with a remit to optimize organizational structures and processes and to serve on the Executive Management Committee as ContiTech prepares for independence in 2026.

Alumnus-funded clinical block expands palliative care capacity and links services with MAHE's education and research.
MAHE inaugurated the Harish & Bina Shah Foundation Clinical Block at Manipal Hospice and Respite Centre, funded by alumnus philanthropy to expand palliative and supportive care capacity. The facility links clinical services with MAHE's education and research programs, complementing the ICMR MAHE Centre for Advanced Research at MHRC. The foundation also funds scholarships and allied patient family support initiatives, embedding alumni partnership within MAHE's healthcare and training ecosystem.

Masti Zone Gurugram outlet opens with arcade, VR, bowling, kids' play, and on site F&B for family entertainment.
Masti Zone opened a new indoor amusement outlet at M3M 65th Avenue, Gurugram, offering Bumper Cars, arcade games, bowling, VR attractions, a Sky Walk and a Kids Play Area aimed at multiple age groups. The venue emphasises next generation technology and immersive design and includes an on site F&B outlet, Flavors, to support customer dwell time. The launch forms part of a broader Northern India expansion into retail hubs and Tier 1/2 cities, using branded experience spaces to drive footfall and ancillary revenue while maintaining operational safety for families.

100 MW green data centre and cable landing station in Tamil Nadu backed by phased equity and regulatory submissions.
Project Horizon is a phased programme to build a 100 MW green data centre, cable landing station and dedicated solar facility in Tamil Nadu, supported by initial Rs. 200 crore equity and a structured investment platform for further capital. Project delivery depends on site due diligence, technical design, environmental assessment and regulatory submissions across telecom, maritime and energy domains, with the renewable facility intended to supply the centre under a structured power purchase agreement and commercial engagements progressing with subsea operators, EPC partners and renewable developers.

Free AI ESG maturity assessment providing scores and tailored recommendations to benchmark regulatory readiness and risk.
This release announces a free, AI-driven ESG Maturity Assessment that produces an overall ESG Maturity Score and E, S, and G pillar scores, plus tailored recommendations aligned to an organisation's maturity, industry, and geography; it is intended as a universal, regulatorily informed baseline and continuous monitoring resource for benchmarking performance, identifying regulatory readiness and risk exposure, and supporting sustainability reporting, carbon accounting, and governance oversight.

Arunachal hydropower projects targeted for revival under a policy-stability and sustainable development initiative.
Arunachal Pradesh government is conducting a structured review and coordinated initiative to revive multiple stalled hydropower projects, identifying major installations such as Etalin, Demwe Lower, Subansiri Upper, Tawang I and II, and the Siang Upper as central to the State's long-term energy roadmap. The initiative emphasises policy stability, responsible hydropower development, and long-term energy security as guiding principles to ensure timely, responsible, and sustainable resumption of work and to unlock the State's hydropower capacity.

Applied AI for HR: Phenom launches AI agents for hiring, fraud detection, work redesign and compliant shift scheduling.
Phenom unveiled applied AI for HR including a Candidate Fraud Detection Agent that verifies identities, detects resume falsification and flags AI-assisted interview responses with post-interview fraud indicators; Enterprise Talent Optimization & Work Redesign that links strategy to task-level workforce execution and development plans; a Unified Orchestration Engine for policy-compliant, explainable workflow handling; Frontline Workforce Lifecycle & Shift Scheduling for compliant shift optimisation; and a Voice Screening Agent for conversational role-specific screening.

AI-assisted music collaboration: father and daughter release English-Korean pop song blending AI-crafted lyrics and visuals with human vocals.
An independent creator released an English-Korean pop song produced through human and AI collaboration: AI assisted lyric co writing (including Korean nuances), generated cover art and visuals via prompt engineering, and supplied compositional support, while the human vocalist provided the final performance and artistic judgment; the workflow combined AI output with manual assembly and synchronization and the release follows prior AI enabled projects by the same creator.

Karnataka Assembly passes hate speech law imposing up to seven years jail and fines for specified public expressions.
The Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill creates criminal liability for public expressions-spoken, written, visual, sign-based or electronic-made with intent to cause injury, disharmony, enmity, hatred or ill will against persons, groups or communities, and prescribes penalties including imprisonment up to seven years and fines up to one lakh rupees, with an elevated term for repeated offences.

Amber Enterprises to invest Rs 500 crore in Rajpura R&D centre, with state assurances of approvals within 15 days.
Amber Enterprises will invest Rs 500 crore to establish an R&D centre in Rajpura in two phases adjacent to its existing plant, focusing on HVAC research and design, with phase one recruiting 500 engineers and construction due to start in January or February; the State has assured required approvals within 15 days of application.

ITC plans three new hotels in West Bengal, expanding its hospitality footprint and investments across tourism and agriculture.
ITC plans to acquire land for three new hotels in Darjeeling, Kurseong and the Sundarbans, supplementing five pipeline projects via partnerships including a proposed super luxury property for Siliguri. The company reaffirmed continued capital commitment to West Bengal-about USD 1 billion invested in the last decade-while highlighting manufacturing and food processing capacity, agribusiness engagement with roughly 300,000 farmers through ITCMaars, and an AI centre developed in partnership with a major technology provider.

US arms sales to Taiwan exceeding $10B aim to bolster Taiwan's deterrence and military self defence capabilities.
The United States announced a package of arms sales to Taiwan exceeding USD 10 billion-including missiles, HIMARS, howitzers, drones, software and parts-justified as advancing US national security interests by supporting Taiwan's military modernization, deterrence and credible self defence; the announcement prompted Chinese diplomatic protest, Taiwanese gratitude, and is situated within federal obligations and recent legislation authorizing increased assistance.