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Monday, November 17, 2025
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Topic: Bloomberg wire

As our cities get more crowded & polluted, taking trains to work might be the only answer

How the world deals with the pressure, as urbanization pushes our metro areas still closer to breaking point, will define the shape of transport over the coming decades.

Delhi’s air quality today is as bad as it was a day after Diwali in 2017

The air quality index, or AQI, hit 980 at 4:30 a.m. Thursday, according to website AirVisual.

US midterm polls: Voter anger with Donald Trump hands Democrats House control

Democrats won at least 17 Republican-held districts in the US midterm polls, a significant down payment on the net gain of 23 seats they need to win the House.

Infosys is boring again, and that’s a good thing: Nandan Nilekani

"We have an excellent CEO in Salil Parekh. Infosys is really on a very stable and forward-looking path,” Nilekani says.

State Bank of India still has too many genies to bottle

The bank’s first quarterly profit in 12 months is no doubt an encouraging sign, though net income of $129 million on a $284 billion loan book is hardly worth celebrating.

Bill Gates aims to save half a million lives by reinventing the toilet

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over seven years funding sanitation research.

Crashed Lion Air jet had faulty speed readings on last 4 flights

Indonesian investigators have recovered about 69 hours of flying data of the crashed Lion Air jet during its last 19 trips.

India among 8 countries to be given Iran oil sanctions waivers, says Michael Pompeo

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the US will grant waivers to these countries to ease their transition away from Iranian crude oil.

Worst rout in seven years may end for India bonds on RBI binge

The yield on the benchmark 10-year bond fell 17 basis points in October, its first decline in three months. It peaked at 8.23 percent in September, the highest level in four years.

TCS in US needs to explain why it’s more likely to fire engineers if they’re not South Asian

The company is set to go on trial in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices in the U.S.

On Camera

We blame the government for being too litigious. Data tells a very different story

Real gains can be achieved when the government focuses its reforms upstream in better contract design, stronger capacity to monitor performance and maintain documentation.

Women form about one-fifth of India’s digital workforce, leadership roles a rarity, says LEAD report

The report released at Charcha 2025, an annual gathering of India’s social development sector, found that women remain largely concentrated in low-value and routine roles.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

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.