Cent Raises $15 Million Series A Led By Blume
Cent, the preventive health startup co-founded by Practo founder Shashank ND, has raised $15 million in a Series A co-led by Blume Ventures and existing investor South Park Commons. The round, disclosed on 27 October, mixes equity and debt, and arrives with an acquisition: Medsee, an AI radiology reporting platform. …
UGC NET Deadline Tomorrow, 1.7 Lakh Forms Stuck
The National Testing Agency (NTA) closes registration for UGC NET December 2026 at 11:50 pm on 28 October, and the queue is still long. Of 5,50,048 candidates registered by 25 October, only 3,73,419 had completed the form and paid. Another 1,36,993 had uploaded neither a photograph nor a signature and …
Tata Motors Clears Iveco Hurdle As 87.81 Percent Accept Offer
Tata Motors has cleared the acceptance threshold that stood between it and Iveco Group, the Italian truck maker it agreed to buy 15 months ago. Provisional acceptances under the 3.91 billion euro offer reached 87.81 per cent of Iveco’s share capital, comfortably above the 80 per cent floor that Iveco’s …
Ather Energy Posts First Profit Of Rs 1.26 Crore
Ather Energy reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 1.26 crore for the quarter ended 30 September 2026, its first quarterly profit since the scooter maker was founded in 2013, against a loss of Rs 154.07 crore a year earlier. Revenue from operations rose 62.9 per cent to Rs 1,464.24 …
Tata Communications To Build $450 Million AI Fibre Network
Tata Communications said on Monday, 26 October, that it will invest $400-450 million over the next three to five years to build a 10,000 km fibre network linking data centre and artificial intelligence clusters across India, a bet on the connectivity layer that sits between the country’s computing buildout and …
NLC India Opens 1,067 Apprentice Training Slots
NLC India Limited has invited applications for 1,067 apprenticeship slots at its Neyveli and Chennai facilities under advertisement L&DC/04/2026. Online registration opened on 21 October 2026 at 10:00 am and closes on 9 November 2026 at 5:00 pm. The intake covers ITI trade apprentices and non-engineering graduates, and is open …
L&T Tech Wins Five-Year Nokia R&D Deal In India
L&T Technology Services has won a five-year contract from Nokia to run engineering and research work for the Finnish telecom equipment maker in India, the company said in an exchange filing on Monday, 26 October. The mandate covers Nokia’s research and development programmes in product engineering, software development, system integration …
Unacademy Founders Plan Rs 700 Crore AI And Deeptech Fund
Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini, the founders of Unacademy, are raising a Rs 700 crore venture capital fund for artificial intelligence and deep technology startups, The Economic Times reported on 26 October. The vehicle, Longshot Capital, has gathered commitments of Rs 250 crore to Rs 300 crore and targets a …
X Money Lets Users Tip $1 By Long Pressing Like
Elon Musk said on Sunday that X will let users send $1 to another account by long pressing the Like button on a post, the first time the company has tied a payment directly to ordinary engagement. The feature is part of X Money, the payments service that X has …
Brent At $117 Tests India’s Rupee And Bonds
Brent’s December contract settled at USD 117.38 a barrel on Friday, up USD 7.52 or nearly 7 per cent in a holiday-shortened week and the highest in six months. West Texas Intermediate rose 4.3 per cent to USD 103.27, and crude futures on the Multi Commodity Exchange closed at Rs …
Ladakh Puts Rs 100 Crore Behind 1,000 Startups
Ladakh will launch a dedicated startup policy in November with a corpus of Rs 100 crore, a programme the Union Territory administration expects to reach about 1,000 founders in the Himalayan region. Himanshu Gupta, Administrative Secretary for Industries and Commerce, told ANI on 25 October that the guidelines are ready …
Supreme Court Court Master Recruitment: 20 Posts
The Supreme Court of India has opened online applications for 20 tentative vacancies of Court Master (Shorthand), a gazetted post in the court’s Registry, and the window runs from 25 October to 15 November 2026. The advertisement, numbered F.6/11/CM(S)/2026-SC (RC), was issued on 15 October by Deputy Registrar (Recruitment) Mahabir …
