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Thursday, November 20, 2025
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

No relief for investors after RBI is seen curtailing its support for the bond market

RBI may buy Rs 1.7 trillion of debt in the year starting April 1, compared with an estimated record Rs 3 trillion spent on such purchases this fiscal period.

Drone brought down in Rajasthan, Pakistan continues shelling along LoC in Kashmir: Indian Army

There was shelling with mortars and the firing of small arms by Pakistan in the early hours of the day.

Facebook wants to encrypt communications on its platforms, but there’s a catch

Zuckerberg's talk about more private communications through Facebook and its other apps is simply putting a shiny gloss on what is otherwise a power play to consolidate user data by merging its multiple services.

A key source of funding for India Inc. founders is drying up

NBFCs are no longer lending to founders who want to expand their empires by pledging stakes in their firms.

What India’s top women economists predict for 2019

Slower growth & benign inflation will boost chances of back-to-back interest rate cuts by RBI in April.

At 21, Kylie Jenner is changing the meaning of social media billionaire

Kylie Jenner grew her cosmetics business one Instagram post at a time to become the world's youngest billionaire. Her posts are now valued at $1 million apiece.

Michael Jackson wanted people, and the young boys, to believe he was the victim

Accounts of Jackson's sexual abuse of boys in HBO's documentary 'Leaving Neverland' is not news. But it shows that our culture tacitly decided to pretend Jackson might just be weird, not alarming.

Facebook to shift from open sharing to privacy-focused platform, says Mark Zuckerberg

The shift comes at a time encrypted and anonymous posts on Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging application are already helping fuel violence and conflict in places such as India.

Earth has seen spikes in carbon dioxide before, and it wasn’t pretty

While global warming continues and carbon levels rise, scientists have realised that 4 of the 5 of mass extinctions so far were likely triggered by large amounts of carbon being released into the atmosphere.

Rupee rallies as India-Pakistan tensions abate but election wall is coming up

The rupee has rebounded about 2% since early February, and is no longer the worst performer this year among Asia's emerging market currencies.

On Camera

Hasina’s was a trial in absentia, but not a trial without justice

The Sheikh Hasina trial represents an inflection point in the struggle to place citizens above rulers and prevent the next massacre.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Emergency procurement done, India & US working on co-manufacturing Javelin anti-tank missiles

The Government of India has requested to buy up to 216 M982A1 Excalibur tactical projectiles too. Excalibur artillery munition was used in Op Sindoor against Pakistan.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.