On this episode of Macro Matters, host Ankur Bhardwaj is joined by A K Bhattacharya, Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Archis Mohan to unpack some of the biggest developments shaping India’s economy and politics.

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An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over an alleged attempt to secretly record confidential meetings using a device hidden in toilet paper. The FBI says Abdulrahman Alfozan,

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka have been sent to five days of judicial custody over alleged violations at Jantar Mantar, which was denotified as a designated protest

The amalgamation will take effect on December 1, 2026, following Emirates NBD's acquisition of a 60 per cent stake in RBL Bank through a Rs 26,000 crore capital infusion

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India women vs Zimbabwe women 1st T20I begins at 7 pm IST on Friday, with the toss at 6:30 pm IST. Fans in India can stream the match on the JioHotstar app and website

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Food regulator flags hygiene violations at Radisson Blu, misleading claims for rice bran oil on e-commerce platforms, and suspends or cancels licences of two food businesses

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This will be Marco Rubio's second visit to India since May, when he attended the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting hosted by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi

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From advancing trade ties with the US and Europe to managing the China border dispute and preserving Russia ties, Jaishankar outlined India's priorities on major global relationships

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The Trump administration is cutting the time refugees have to contest the termination of their status, a move critics say could put tens of thousands of people who fled persecution and wars in their home countries on a path to deportation.
The new policy, which goes into effect Wednesday, reduces from 30 to 10 the number of days refugees have to challenge the revocation of their status. It is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to restrict and transform a program that has served for decades as a pathway for refugees.
The goal of the new policy, according to the document, is to "mitigate potential risks" associated with people who were admitted as refugees but were not eligible for refugee status.
The policy does not say exactly how many people could be affected, but it specifically refers to refugees admitted during President Joe Biden's administration, when it says there was an "alarming erosion of the integrity" of the refugee program. Refugee advocates dispute th

Press Trust of India

The Mumbai Police have issued a notice to Bollywood actor Imran Khan, an American national, directing him to leave India by October 28 for allegedly violating provisions of the Immigration and Foreigners Act, officials said on Thursday.
The action comes after the actor, nephew of superstar Aamir Khan, participated in an agitation on October 10 in Mumbai, where protesters demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the police official said.
During the demonstration, the police had also briefly taken the actor into custody.
"Imran Khan holds foreign citizenship and is not an Indian national. Under relevant provisions of the Foreigners/Immigration Act, foreign nationals are prohibited from participating in political protests or political activities on Indian soil," a police official said.
A formal notice directing the actor to leave the country by October 28 has been served on him, and he has received a copy, the police said. Further administrative procedure

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Emirates says Navi Mumbai airport lacks catering and cargo facilities, while MIAL has assured airlines that international flights will stay at Mumbai until at least March-end.

Essa Sulaiman Ahmad, senior vice-president for commercial operations (West Asia and Indian Ocean) at Emirates Airline

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said India-US relations are "very good" and will only improve irrespective of changes in political thinking in the two countries.
Goyal said that the bilateral relationship goes beyond trade and encompasses defence, technology, critical minerals and people-to-people ties.
"Of course, it is already very good. I don't see any problem as we speak also. And to my mind, the relationship with the US that India enjoys is very substantive, very consequential for the world, being two large democracies," he said at the Bloomberg New Economy event here.
He was responding to a question on whether India-US relations would improve after US president Donald Trump leaves office.
"One must bear in mind that we have, it's not only about trade, which of course they are our largest trading partner and I think will continue to be in the years to come. And by and large, I don't see any problem in any agreements also with the United States," the ..

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Amid the CERT-In advisory on autonomous AI agents, government sources on Friday said all companies must strengthen cybersecurity measures and step up monitoring of unusual system activity, and that no vital information of significant organisations was compromised and the incident must serve as an early warning.
India's cybersecurity agency CERT-In has issued a 'critical' advisory warning that autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have accessed live systems and confidential data of Indian organisations without authorisation, while threat actors are actively weaponising open-source agentic AI tools to execute rapid cyberattacks.
Government sources told PTI that upcoming AI regulation - for which the consultation paper is likely to be floated soon - may also examine issues around autonomous agents.
The incident did not involve any significant organisations or result in major financial losses or compromise of vital information, sources said, while emphasising that it had ...

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The Centre on Friday amended the Census Rules, 1990, allowing states and Union territories to appoint teachers of "aided or unaided private bodies" as enumerators during the Census, in the backdrop of various high courts staying the orders of government officials requisitioning services of such staff.
A gazette notification issued by Registrar General of India (RGI) Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan said "teachers, clerks, or any official or any person" can be appointed as census officers by state governments and Union territories as enumerators.
Friday's notification specifies that "teachers of any educational institution of the government, local authority, aided or unaided private bodies, societies or trusts; (ii) Clerks or any official of the central government, state government, local authority or establishment (including public sector undertakings, statutory bodies, banks, companies, institutions, societies and trusts); (iii) Any person, as the state government or the Union territory ...

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