Fintech firm Razorpay has become the first Indian payments company to integrate directly with OpenAI Codex. "A developer prompts 'build me a fitness app with a ₹499 one-time payment.' Codex builds it. Razorpay handles the payments...No separate integration," Founder Shashank Kumar said. This move will allow developers using Codex to connect Razorpay within the agent and accept payments.

According to the government data released in March, Uttar Pradesh produces the largest number of mangoes in India. The early estimates peg UP's production at 6172.38 metric tonnes, followed by Andhra Pradesh (4986.43 MT). The estimated mango production for 2025-26 for Karnataka, the third-most mango-producing state, is 1721.98 MT, followed by Bihar (1585.54 MT) and Gujarat (1272.64 MT).

Veteran banker Uday Kotak warned that US President Donald Trump's plan to take control of Strait of Hormuz and charge "rent" signals a return to "true colonialism". He added that this could trigger a structural shift in the global order not seen in "our living history". Disruptions in the Strait amid the Middle East conflict have affected global oil supplies.

The top 10% rural households of India own 44% of land, while 46% of rural households are landless, according to World Inequality Lab (WIL) analysis. The data, covering around 65 crore people across 2,70,000 villages, further says that 18% of rural land is held by the top 1%. Villages with higher agricultural productivity face a higher land inequality, it added.

China announced that it will raise fuel prices for the second time in just over two weeks, citing an increase in global oil prices amid the US-Iran war. In a bid to mitigate rapid hikes, China also imposed a cap on price increases, reducing petrol and diesel increases from 800 yuan and 770 yuan to 420 yuan and 400 yuan/tonne.

India's largest bank SBI is estimating losses of about $32 million (nearly ₹300 crore) after its bets worth $5 billion (over ₹46,400 crore) against the rupee were affected by the RBI's crackdown, Bloomberg reported. The losses, however, will be "manageable" as the bank has assets worth around $800 billion (over ₹74,32,000), sources said. RBI had capped banks' forex rupee positions.

Russia's Urals crude prices rose to a 13-year high amid the Iran-US war, according to Bloomberg. Urals reached as high as $116.05/barrel on April 2, almost twice as high as the average $59/barrel assumed in Russia's budget for 2026. Further, Ukraine has increased strikes on seaports, including the Baltic coast, from where 40% of Russia's seaborne crude is shipped.

India is set to import 12 million barrels of crude oil from Venezuela, the highest since February 2020, according to Kpler. This comes as the country looks for alternatives for Middle Eastern supplies amid the ongoing Iran war. Refiners including Reliance Industries, HPCL and IOCL have collectively purchased over 3 lakh barrels a day for loading in March.

Sam Altman-led OpenAI warned in its policy report that superintelligence AI systems can outperform smartest humans even when they're assisted by AI. Pointing out what superintelligence AI will bring into the future, OpenAI called for urgent policy changes in economies, governance and jobs to ensure AI benefits everyone. Altman had said that by 2028, AI could surpass human intellectual capacity.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked judicial officers not to use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot to write judgments and conduct legal research. Earlier, the Gujarat HC had issued a similar order prohibiting AI use for any form of decision-making, judicial reasoning, order drafting, judgment preparation, bail sentencing considerations, or any substantive adjudicatory process.