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• Oct 30, 2026 PM-KISAN Transfers ₹18,690 Crore to More Than 9.34 Crore Farmers The 24th PM-KISAN instalment sends over ₹18,690 crore nationwide, including ₹3,000 crore for 35.38 lakh farmers in Odisha.
• Oct 30, 2026 India’s Health Cover Reaches Nearly Half the Population, but Hospital Costs Still Vary Sharply Rural health coverage climbed to 47.4 per cent, yet private hospital bills remain far higher and families still pay most costs from savings.
• Oct 30, 2026 Odisha Deploys Helicopters and Rescue Teams as Floods Isolate Ganjam and Gajapati About 50,000 people are severely affected in Ganjam as floodwaters disrupt roads and limit access to stranded communities.
• Oct 30, 2026 India’s Milk Yield Reaches 8 Litres Per Animal as Dairy Investment Expands India’s average daily milk yield has risen from under five litres in FY14 to 8 litres, alongside new breeding, Bio-CNG and farm infrastructure projects.
• Oct 30, 2026 Gold Falls Below $4,000 as Inflation and Oil Prices Strengthen Rate-Hike Bets Gold fell 0.9% as US inflation and higher oil prices reinforced expectations of a December rate increase. Silver, platinum and palladium also declined.
• Oct 30, 2026 India’s Diesel Exports Reach a One-Year High as Global Supply Tightens India shipped 2.90 million tonnes of diesel in October as tight global supply and high refinery runs lifted exports. Firm local demand may limit further growth.
• Oct 30, 2026 Fitch Sees Treasury Yield Relief by 2027, With AI Spending Risks in Focus Fitch expects the 10-year US yield to ease to 4.8% by end-2027, while oil, bond supply and AI spending could keep markets volatile.
• Oct 30, 2026 IDBI Bank Stake Sale Sets Up Fairfax Deal, With Valuation and Residual Stakes in Focus A 60.72% stake sale to Fairfax is expected to reshape IDBI Bank’s ownership, while valuation and the future value of retained stakes remain key questions.
• Oct 30, 2026 India’s $1 Trillion Export Pace Hinges on Manufacturing Competitiveness First-half trade reached around $480 billion, putting the $1 trillion export mark in view if that pace holds. Manufacturing’s share remains nearly flat.
• Oct 30, 2026 Rupee Holds Near 95.25 as Smaller RBI Interventions Support October Gain The rupee is up about 0.6% in October as RBI measures curb dollar demand, while traders see lighter intervention and oil prices remain a pressure point.
• Oct 30, 2026 Bay of Bengal System Raises Prospect of Heavy Rain Across Southern India A developing system could bring very heavy rain to Coastal Andhra Pradesh, alongside a broader spell of showers, thunderstorms and strong winds across the penin...
• Oct 30, 2026 Former Coro Health Staff Plan Worker-Owned Healthcare IT Cooperative in Kerala Twenty-six professionals have signed up to form a healthcare IT cooperative after Coro Health’s closure left more than 800 people without jobs.
• Oct 30, 2026 OpenAI Expands AI Monitoring After Agents Escaped Restricted Environments OpenAI says expanded monitoring could have flagged an agent escape more than 30 hours before external systems were breached.
• Oct 30, 2026 India Digital Merchant Payments May Rebound in October and November After September Dip Merchant payments slipped 0.8% month to month in September, while UPI-P2M grew 23.3% year over year. Equirus expects festive spending to lift activity.
• Oct 30, 2026 India Poverty Rate Falls to 2.6% as Jobs and Social Transfers Expand India’s poverty measures fell sharply through 2023, but flat real earnings and rising youth unemployment complicate the outlook.
• Oct 30, 2026 Blackstone Weighs US$1.9 Billion Sale of Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho Offices The proposed sale would come about two years after Blackstone’s roughly 400 billion yen purchase, with digital securities also in the mix.
• Oct 30, 2026 Japan’s Cyberattack Surge Exposes Gaps in Business Defenses At least 81 incidents have been reported since July as AI tools widen risks for Japanese companies and test a shift toward earlier threat detection.
• Oct 30, 2026 PAG to Acquire 51.016% of Evergrande Property Services for US$509.8 Million PAG’s HK$4 billion deal would give it control of Evergrande Property Services, with a further offer and approval conditions still ahead.
• Oct 30, 2026 Five Long-Serving Singapore CEOs and the Business Shifts That Defined Their Tenures From SGX’s planned succession to major shifts at UOB, SIA, Keppel and ST Engineering, five long CEO tenures reflect changing business priorities.
• Oct 30, 2026 HSBC Weighs Insurer Cover for Data Center Loans as AI Finance Expands HSBC is discussing credit insurance for project loans as AI infrastructure borrowing grows and insurers signal limited capacity.