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Scotland looks to work with India in energy transition space

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:53:35+00:00

Scotland and India aim to build prosperous, modern economies powered by clean energy, innovation, and international partnerships, said First Minister John Swinney

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Global Rush to Fix PHP Security Flaw Leaves Some Websites Offline

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:48:14+00:00

Governments and businesses in Kenya, the Netherlands and elsewhere were scrambling to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a widely used programming language.

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky juge « injuste et inacceptable » que Trump lui fasse porter la responsabilité de l’agression russe

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-10-22T11:45:55+00:00

Dans un entretien au podcast The Diary of a CEO, le président ukrainien rejette notamment l’accusation selon laquelle les frappes de Kiev contre les raffineries russes expliqueraient la hausse des prix du gazole aux Etats-Unis. Il appelle également son homologue américain à employer envers Vladimir Poutine la fermeté qu’il lui réserve et à appliquer les sanctions votées par le Congrès.

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky juge « injuste et inacceptable » que Donald Trump lui fasse porter la responsabilité de l’agression russe

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-10-22T11:45:54+00:00

Dans un entretien pour le podcast « The Diary of a CEO », le président ukrainien rejette en particulier l’accusation selon laquelle les frappes de Kiev contre les raffineries russes expliqueraient la hausse des prix du gazole aux Etats-Unis. Il appelle également son homologue américain à employer envers Vladimir Poutine la fermeté qu’il lui réserve et à appliquer les sanctions votées par le Congrès.

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Jio Platforms IPO Day 2 Highlights: Issue subscribed 5.19 times, QIB demand crosses 12x

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:45:49+00:00

Jio Platforms IPO Day 2 highlights: Jio Platforms’ ₹30,213-crore initial public offering (IPO) was subscribed 5.19 times by the end of the second day of bidding on Thursday, October 22. Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) subscribed to 12.32 times the shares reserved for their category, while non-institutional investors subscribed 5.50 times their allotted portion. Retail individual investors subscribed to 1.48 times their reserved portion.

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Draft GST return forms to be put up on Nov 1 for public comments

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:43:08+00:00

GST Council’s recommendations includes various measures to streamline return filing process, to minimize mismatches in liability and input tax credit (ITC) in returns

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Jio Platforms IPO Day 2 Live Updates: Issue subscribed 5.17 times, QIB demand crosses 12x

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:37:21+00:00

Jio Platforms IPO Day 2 live updates: Jio Platforms’ ₹30,213-crore initial public offering (IPO) enters its second day of bidding on Thursday, October 22, after being subscribed 3.16 times on Day 1. Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) bid for nearly nine times the shares allocated to their category, while retail investors subscribed to 73 per cent of their reserved portion. Follow live updates on subscription status, issue details and investor demand

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Economy set to worsen, with higher unemployment and weaker growth on the way, Jim Chalmers reveals

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:30:43+00:00

Treasury is revising all the numbers for the mid-year update as economists warn of a difficult six months aheadGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastJim Chalmers has revealed December’s mid-year budget update will project weaker growth and higher unemployment, as economists warn of a difficult six months ahead for the Australian economy.Two days after a senior Reserve Bank official foreshadowed the potential for another interest rate hike in under two weeks’ time, the treasurer in a speech on Friday morning will say “higher inflation is putting people under pressure, tight

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Save high street by taxing online sales at higher rate, Burnham urged

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:29:51+00:00

Exclusive: British Chambers of Commerce president tells PM to ‘level the playing field’ for struggling high streets• How Middleton’s revival could be grist to the mill for Britain’s struggling townsAndy Burnham has been urged by one of his most senior former advisers to tax internet sales at a higher rate than those in physical shops to help “level the playing field” for struggling high streets.As the prime minister and his chancellor, John Healey, prepare for their first budget next week, Andy Haldane joined calls for them to take action to stop the shutters coming down on growing numbers of

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Oil prices jump to five-month high as attacks threaten global supply

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:28:11+00:00

Iran’s IRGC says it hit four vessels in the northern Gulf and three more struck mines near the strait of HormuzShipping workers: how is the Middle East conflict affecting you?Business live – latest updatesOil prices jumped to a five-month high on Thursday after ​attacks in Saudi Arabia and hits to tankers in the strait of Hormuz threatened further disruptions to the world’s crude supply.Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose by 3% to hit $112 a barrel for first time since 18 May. Continue reading...

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Nippon Life India AMC gets regulatory nod to settle Yes Bank bond case

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:23:34+00:00

Nippon Life AMC said any money recovered following the court ruling would go to investors in the relevant mutual fund schemes and would not affect the company’s financial results

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How Middleton’s revival could be grist to the mill for Britain’s struggling towns

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:22:03+00:00

Turnaround initiated by Andy Burnham and led by Steve Coogan could provide blueprint for other neglected areas• Save high street by creating ‘level playing field’ with online rivals, Burnham urgedThe former England footballer Paul Scholes and the actor Steve Coogan stare out from beside a fish and chip shop in Middleton, near Manchester. Looming over a mural of the pair – and the whole town – is an enormous former cotton mill that powered its economy a century ago.The deafening looms and spindles of Warwick Mill fell silent decades ago, replaced in recent years by TikTok “urban explorers” who

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Swiggy posts bigger-than-expected quarterly loss

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:18:11+00:00

The firm posted a consolidated Q2 net loss of ₹922 crore ($97.24 million) vs ₹1,092 crore a year earlier

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Angry lawyers and bewildered defendants: the fallout from fast-tracking French rioting cases

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:08:40+00:00

Politicians have called for ruthless sentencing, but lawyers blame the politicians for the poverty, and anger, behind their clients’ lootingAwa, 18, stood in the dock in the tribunal de Paris, a small, mute and bewildered figure seeming unable to understand, let alone answer, the simplest of questions.The court was told she had joined young people who looted an Yves Saint Laurent store on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris’s Left Bank late on Sunday and stripped it bare within minutes. Continue reading...

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Adani Total Gas Q2 profit rises 6% to ₹173 cr

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:08:21+00:00

ATGL’s revenue growth was driven by a 12 per cent% year-on-year increase in gas sales volumes to 315 million standard cubic metres (MMSCM) in the July-September quarter

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Jio Platforms IPO Day 2 Live Updates: Issue subscribed 5.03 times, QIB demand nears 12x

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-10-22T11:06:07+00:00

Jio Platforms IPO Day 2 live updates: Jio Platforms’ ₹30,213-crore initial public offering (IPO) enters its second day of bidding on Thursday, October 22, after being subscribed 3.16 times on Day 1. Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) bid for nearly nine times the shares allocated to their category, while retail investors subscribed to 73 per cent of their reserved portion. Follow live updates on subscription status, issue details and investor demand

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‘America, this is a warning’: pro- Trump Maga media in a froth over Europe protests

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:00:42+00:00

Fox News and others have toed president’s line – seemingly hoping unrest abroad will make people vote RepublicanDonald Trump sought to capitalize on the scenes of unrest in France, telling a crowd in Kansas on Monday that “migrants” and “communists” were responsible, and that the scenes were “what the radical ‘Dumocrats’ want to do to America”.As Republicans struggle to convince voters across the country ahead of November’s midterm elections, Trump’s allies in the conservative media have followed suit, seemingly hoping that the scenes in France can scare people to the polls. Continue reading..

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Snowy Hydro 2.0 has blown out to 12 times its original cost – but the CEO says it ‘could have been worse’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-22T11:00:41+00:00

New projections by the Snowy Hydro company show tunnelling work is now 65% finished, but the completion date has been pushed back to 2029Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe cost of Snowy Hydro 2.0 has blown out to as much as $25bn, with a major reassessment finding the long-delayed renewable energy project will not be completed until the end of the decade.First touted by the Turnbull government in 2017 with a price tag of $2bn, the cost of the project in the Kosciuszko national park has increased dramatically over time. In 2023 it was revised to almost $13bn, with co

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