935 stories · Page 1 of 94
On 8 Oct 2026 the Labor Department, backed by VP JD Vance, froze all new and pending PERM labor-certification (first-step green card) applications from Microsoft, Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro and HCLTech pending fraud investigations.
On 5 Oct 2026 Iran handed Norway’s ambassador a formal note demanding Oslo curb Starlink signals and, in the same news cycle, publicly disclosed it had already jammed and disabled Starlink terminals during the January 2026 unrest.
Draft decisions circulated before the 8 Oct 2026 Council meeting scrap Section 17(5) limits so firms can claim full input-tax credit on passenger vehicles (≤13 seats) and channel any future GST arrests through the courts, signalling a shift from punitive policing to credit-led facilitation.
On 7 Oct 2026 the Reserve Bank of India broke a 44-month rate freeze, raising the repo rate 25 bps to 5.50% and declaring that future moves will be either further hikes or a pause, not cuts.
Under a Brussels deadline for "tangible results" by October, Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič will meet China’s Wang Wentao on 8–9 Oct 2026 to secure deficit-cutting concessions and avert an EU-China trade war.
Analysts peg Samsung’s July–Sept 2026 operating profit at ₩108.1 trn (≈US$80 bn), nine times last year’s level and the first time any Korean firm tops ₩100 trn in a single quarter, ahead of preliminary guidance due Thursday.
Research notes and market polls released ahead of the 7-October MPC meeting show consensus that the RBI will lift the repo rate 25 bps to 5.50 % now and, through roughly 75 bps of cumulative hikes, steer it to 6 % by end-FY27.
On 5 Oct 2026, Saudi Aramco unexpectedly cut its November Arab Light price for Asia to US$5 below the regional benchmark, even as fresh fighting in Yemen threatened Red Sea export routes, jolting crude futures around the US$100 mark.
On 5 Oct 2026, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily allowing dyed, tax-exempt diesel to be sold for on-road use nationwide, aiming to shave roughly 24¢/gal off record-high trucking fuel costs ahead of the 3 Nov midterms.
India deferred its first GST Council meeting in over a year to 8 October 2026 (second postponement in a month) where it will vote on decriminalising tax offences, scrapping officers’ arrest powers and automating multi-state registration—marking the launch of the long-promised ‘process reform’ phase of GST 2.0.
Multi-perspective news analysis delivered to your inbox—free. We read 1,000s of sources so you don't have to.
