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India secured a landmark mixed doubles medal at the Asian Table Tennis Championships, ending a 72-year wait for the country in the event. After racing to an early lead and then falling behind, the Indian pair showed composure under pressure to close out a tense five-game contest and make history.
India’s para-athletes have crossed the 100-medal threshold at the 2026 Asian Para Games, underlining the country’s growing depth in disability sport and its rising regional competitiveness. The milestone comes against the backdrop of India’s record 111-medal haul at the 2023 edition, where the team finished fifth overall with 29 gold, 31 silver and 51 bronze medals.
Mona Agarwal and Nishad Kumar will carry India’s flag at the closing ceremony of the Asian Para Games, a fitting recognition for two of the country’s standout performers in Hangzhou. Both athletes won two gold medals each, underlining India’s growing depth and consistency in para sport on the continental stage.
India’s Mona Agarwal delivered one of the standout performances of the Asian Para Games 2026, winning her second gold medal with a world-record effort in shooting. The result underlined India’s growing depth in para sport and reinforced the country’s status as a rising force in precision events on the continental stage.
Indian equities are set for a positive start on Thursday, with GIFT Nifty indicating early gains even as broader Asian markets trade lower. The tone suggests domestic investors may look past overnight global weakness and focus instead on local cues, including earnings, liquidity conditions and the trajectory of interest rates.
Indian archer Sheetal delivered another statement performance at the Asian Para Games 2026, winning her second successive gold medal in the women’s compound event. The victory lifted her overall tally at the ongoing Games to three medals, underlining her status as one of India’s standout performers in para archery.
Indian equities fell for a fourth straight session on Friday, with the Nifty 50 ending at 22,600 and the Sensex closing at 73,123.83 as broad-based weakness deepened across small-cap, mid-cap and metal counters. Bearish technical signals and persistent risk aversion kept buyers on the sidelines, even as select large-cap names such as Eternal, Apollo Hospitals, Shriram Finance and Adani Enterprises featured among the day’s most active movers.
Comcast delivered a third-quarter earnings beat on the back of stronger media performance, with Peacock posting another profitable quarter and NBCUniversal benefiting from the breakout success of 'The Odyssey.' The results helped offset continued weakness in broadband and connectivity, reinforcing the investment case for Comcast’s planned media spinoff even as its core cable business remains under pressure.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has invoked a Civil War-era monetary precedent to bolster the Trump administration’s new crypto framework, casting the GENIUS Act as a modern extension of America’s long history of financial innovation. The remarks arrive as federal regulators begin translating the law into practical rules, giving stablecoin issuers and broader digital-asset markets the regulatory clarity they have long sought.
Uttar Pradesh was among the lowest-ranked states in September’s sugar inflation table, underscoring sharp regional divergence in a commodity that remains central to household consumption and food-price tracking. Tamil Nadu recorded the highest sugar inflation, according to an analysis based on three months of inputs from esSankhyiki, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s data platform.
Indian banks are entering the next few quarters with asset quality still broadly stable, but a new report warns that higher crude oil prices and an uneven monsoon could weaken borrowers’ repayment capacity. The risk is not an immediate deterioration in credit costs, but a gradual squeeze on profitability, margins and loan performance if external pressures persist.
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