Avadhut Sathe, also called 'dancing finfluencer', lost ₹4.3 crore while his trading academy ASTAPL lost ₹1.88 crore in fiscal 2024-25 and 2025-26 till November, SEBI said. This was the same time when Sathe continued to cheat 4.1 lakh students by disguising real-time trading tips as training content. Sathe has been banned from trading for cheating the students of ₹546 crore.

Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF) denied Trump's claims that Indian rice is being "dumped" in American market. "All Indian exports are demand-driven...demand for Indian rice is deeply-rooted in...food habits of ethnic communities from South Asia and Gulf," IREF said. Indian rice exports are "very well diversified" and are likely to be unaffected by any potential raising of tariffs, it added.

Interpol, the global policing organisation, issued a Blue Corner notice against the owners of Goa's Birch by Romeo Lane, Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who fled to Thailand after a fire at their nightclub killed 25 people. There are many individuals of Indian origin on various Interpol notices. The notable ones include Dawood Ibrahim, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, and Vijay Mallya.

Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa said India’s fast-growing quick-commerce industry is nearing its limits due to a lack of funding from investors. These companies will soon be forced to confront how long they can sustain heavy losses, he added. "Usually when this kind of imbalance exists, the correction is very swift…It often catches people by surprise," Dhindsa said.

US President Donald Trump accused India of "dumping" domestically-produced rice in the American market and warned of further tariffs over it. Dumping is an unfair trade practice in which a country or company exports a product to a foreign market at prices lower than its normal value, harming domestic producers. Indian trade bodies said the rice dumping claims are "overstated".

A 59-year-old businessman from Pune said he received a flight cancellation message from IndiGo for a flight, which later left on schedule, causing him to miss it. Girish Radhakrishnan said he went back to sleep after receiving a cancellation message at 12.11 am, for his 4.15 am flight to Coimbatore. He was later marked a no-show for the same flight.

The shares of Chinese startup Moore Threads, founded by ex-Nvidia manager Zhang Jianzhong, rose 425% on its market debut, making its founder a billionaire. The startup is now worth $40 billion after it raised $1.1 billion in its IPO, which was this year's second-largest public offering in mainland China. Moore Threads VP Zhang Yubo also became a billionaire.

Cline's AI head Nik Pash faced criticism for commenting, "Imagine the smell," on a pic of xAI's hackathon, which showed many Indian-origin coders. "Please don't be racist," a user replied, while another said, "Hesitate a little." Following backlash, Cline's South Asian-origin CEO Saoud Rizwan said, "Cline was started at a hackathon which...was quite smelly...This [post] was taken the wrong way."

Welspun One said that it will invest ₹550 crore to develop nearly 1.2 million sqft Grade A logistics park in Talegaon, Maharashtra. The company has been allotted 46-acre, MIDC-notified land parcel in Talegaon MIDC Phase IV, Pune. The company is backed by a development pipeline of 19 million sqft and ₹10,000 crore in AUM.

Under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, rooftop solar systems have been installed in 24 lakh households, achieving nearly 24% of the one-crore target set for FY 2026-27, the government told the Rajya Sabha. Over 53.54 lakh applications have been received so far, with 35 lakh new household installations targeted for FY 2025-26 alone.